Pool builder photography and video in Mesa.

Pool construction in Mesa

Mesa is three pool markets at once. In Eastmark and the neighborhoods around Gateway, pools go into brand-new yards that are bare dirt the day the house closes, with the landscape often following the pool by a month or two; the Katmai Residence film on our Mesa page shows that sequence from the landscape side. Toward Las Sendas and Red Mountain, lots sit on a grade with a view east, and pools there are built with raised beams, spillways and the view in mind. In central and west Mesa the lots are large and flat and the pools date from the 1970s and 1980s, so the work is remodel: replaster, new tile, a spa added, a diving board removed, a deck replaced.

Dig to plaster on a new Mesa pool runs roughly two to three months, with gunite and plaster days moving around in monsoon season. New communities in southeast Mesa have construction gates and HOA rules on walls and equipment; the older neighborhoods often have alley access that makes excavation simpler. One half day in Mesa can cover a dig in Eastmark, a tile crew in Las Sendas and a remodel near Dobson Ranch, because the city is wide but the freeways are good.

An Eastmark homeowner has a dirt yard and a stack of pool flyers that all show a pool somewhere else.

Twilight and the drone

The drone flies on every Mesa visit. In Eastmark the overhead shows the finished pool beside three dirt yards, which is the next three jobs. On a Las Sendas lot the frame is the oblique with the pool in the foreground and the mountains behind it, and that is a dusk shot. The twilight set is scheduled for the finished pool with the water on and the lights on, and on a view lot we start it earlier to catch the mountains before they go dark.