Concrete Pools in Knoxville, TN

A concrete pool is built entirely on site: steel rebar is set to your exact shape and depth, then concrete is sprayed over it under pressure to form the structural shell. Once cured, the shell gets an interior finish, plaster, pebble, or tile, plus coping and equipment. Nothing is pre-made, which is what allows a concrete pool to take almost any shape.

"Concrete pool" is the umbrella term. Gunite and shotcrete are the two ways builders spray that concrete in place, gunite is dry-mix, shotcrete is wet-mix, and both cure into a comparable steel-reinforced concrete shell. We build our concrete pools with gunite, the method standard across Tennessee and the Southeast.

We build with gunite, not wet-mix shotcrete, gunite is the sprayed-concrete method used across East Tennessee. If you are searching for "shotcrete" because that is the term used where you moved from, you are looking for the same result, a fully custom, sprayed-concrete pool, and that is exactly what we build.

Fiberglass is a pre-made shell: faster to install (3 to 4 weeks) and lower-maintenance, but limited to the manufacturer shapes and sizes available. A concrete pool is built from scratch on your lot, so it costs more and takes longer (8 to 12 weeks) but supports any shape, depth, or feature you can design. See our full fiberglass vs gunite comparison for the honest breakdown.

Custom concrete (gunite) pools run $95,000 - $350,000+ installed. A standard custom build starts around $95,000 - $155,000, most premium projects with a spa land in the $155,000 - $250,000 range, and resort-level builds with vanishing edges and water features run $250,000 - $350,000+.

The concrete shell itself is essentially permanent, 30 to 50+ years, when it is built with proper steel, mix, and curing. What ages over time is the interior finish: plaster typically lasts 10 to 15 years and pebble or quartz finishes 15 to 25 years before they need refinishing.