Pool builder photography and video in Queen Creek and San Tan Valley.

Pool construction in Queen Creek

Almost every pool here goes into a yard that was bare dirt when the house closed. In the newer communities off Ocotillo Road, Signal Butte and Ironwood, lots are standard width with HOA block walls, a two-story neighbor and a side gate the excavator barely fits through, so the design goes into baja shelves, raised spas and a patio that makes the most of the width. In Encanterra the yards are smaller and the finishes higher: tile, travertine, fire bowls. On the horse property corridor along Riggs and Chandler Heights, lots run an acre or more, and pools there come with ramadas, outdoor kitchens and the kind of lawn that still exists in Queen Creek.

A Queen Creek pool runs roughly two to three months from dig to plaster, and the landscape usually follows a month or two behind, which means the finished pool often sits in dirt for a while. That is fine for the photos; a finished pool in a bare yard reads as progress, and the landscaper's work gives the film its ending. New communities almost all have construction gates, and some have rules about when trucks can be on the street, so a gate code and a site contact come with every address.

The first pool company to show twenty finished Queen Creek backyards properly will own the neighborhood referrals.

Twilight and the drone

The drone is the main camera in a new community. The overhead shows your finished pool with the dirt yards beside it, and the oblique shows the yard in its street, which is what the neighbors recognize when the photo turns up on the community page. Twilight is scheduled for the finished pool, water on and lights on, and in Queen Creek the sky is usually worth the wait because there is less around to block it.