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Relee sits in the heart of South Georgia’s wiregrass country, where summers arrive early, linger long, and make a backyard without a pool feel like a missed opportunity for months at a time. From April straight through October, you’ve got nearly seven months of legitimate swimming weather. That’s not a short season that’s a lifestyle, and a well-built gunite pool is how you actually take advantage of it.
Properties in unincorporated Coffee County tend to come with real yard space. That means you’re not cramming a pool into a tight suburban lot you have room to design something that actually fits how your family lives. A larger deck, a spa, water features, room to entertain. The lot you already own is one of the biggest advantages you have going into this project.
And because gunite is a permanent, reinforced concrete shell not a liner that tears or a fiberglass shape you pick from a catalog it holds up to whatever South Georgia weather throws at it. Coffee County has seen its share of storms, including Hurricane Helene in 2024. A gunite pool doesn’t pop out of the ground in a flood or shred under debris. Built correctly, it lasts 40 to 50 years and adds roughly 7% to your property’s value the day it’s finished.
We’re based in Douglas the Coffee County seat, just down the road from Relee. That’s not a detail to gloss over. It means the crew building your pool knows Coffee County’s sandy coastal plain soil, has pulled permits through the county’s building authority, and has worked through the same conditions your Relee property sits on. This isn’t a company driving in from Atlanta or Savannah to take a job. This is your local builder.
Our founding team brought more than 30 years of hands-on experience in concrete, plumbing, and pool construction before we opened our doors in 2014. Every phase of your build excavation, rebar, gunite shell, plumbing, electrical, decking, and finishing is handled by our own crew. No subcontractors. No strangers in your backyard. One team, one point of accountability, from the first shovel to the final inspection.
We also service what we build. Weekly maintenance programs, equipment repair across all major brands, and full pool restoration mean you’re not hunting for a second company three years down the road. We’re your builder and your service provider same number, same people, same accountability.
It starts with a site evaluation. Before any design is finalized, we assess your specific property lot layout, soil conditions, equipment placement, and how the pool will drain and function on Coffee County’s sandy Atlantic Coastal Plain soil. That soil drains faster than the clay-heavy ground you’d find in other parts of South Georgia, which affects how the excavation is staged and how the shell is engineered for long-term stability.
From there, you’ll work through a full 3D design before a single shovel breaks ground. You’ll see exactly what your pool looks like in your actual backyard dimensions, features, deck layout so nothing is a surprise when construction starts. Once the design is locked and the Coffee County building and electrical permits are pulled (we handle all of it), excavation begins. The rebar framework goes in next, followed by the gunite application, which forms the permanent concrete shell. Plumbing and electrical are run in-house, bonded and grounded to NEC Article 680 standards.
After the shell cures, interior finishing, tile, coping, and decking are completed. Equipment is installed and tested. Final inspections are scheduled and passed. The whole process typically runs three to six months from contract to first swim. If you start in the fall, you’re in the water by summer. That’s the realistic timeline and it’s worth knowing before you call in March expecting to swim in June.
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Most pool builders in Georgia don’t actually build the pool. They coordinate subcontractors one crew for excavation, another for plumbing, a third for gunite, someone else for decking. By the time your pool is done, five different companies have been in your backyard, none of them accountable to each other. We don’t work that way. Every phase is handled by our own team, under one roof, with one person responsible for the outcome.
For Relee homeowners specifically, that matters in ways that go beyond convenience. Coffee County’s permitting authority handles all construction approvals for unincorporated areas like Relee there’s no city building department, just the county. We know that process. We’ve navigated it for Coffee County properties, and we handle your building permit, electrical permit, and every required inspection without you touching a single form.
The full scope includes custom 3D pool design, excavation, rebar framework, gunite shell application, all pool plumbing, NEC 680-compliant electrical bonding and grounding, interior surface finishing, tile and coping, deck installation, and equipment setup. Beyond new construction, we also build custom spas, design patios, and offer complete pool maintenance and equipment service covering Hayward, Pentair, Jandy, Sta-Rite, and Zodiac systems. Residential gunite pools in Georgia typically range from $75,000 to $150,000 depending on size, site conditions, and features. That’s the honest range, and we’ll walk you through what your specific project looks like before you commit to anything.
It’s a fair question, and it’s worth answering honestly. Coffee County sits on the Atlantic Coastal Plain, which means the soil here is sandy, acidic, and drains quickly very different from the clay-heavy ground you’d find in other parts of South Georgia. Sandy soil has lower cohesion than clay, which means the pool shell needs to be properly engineered to account for how the ground behaves over time through wet and dry cycles.
A well-engineered gunite shell handles this well. The rebar framework and concrete thickness are designed around the specific soil conditions at your site, not pulled from a generic template. We’ve built pools on Coffee County soil we know what the ground does here and how to build for it. The concern isn’t whether gunite works in sandy soil. The concern is whether your builder understands the soil they’re working in. That’s the question worth asking any contractor you’re considering.
A properly built gunite pool will last 40 to 50 years as a structural shell. The interior surface the plaster or finish coating is what needs periodic attention, and a quality installation done with the right materials and proper curing typically holds up 10 to 15 years before resurfacing is needed. You may have heard shorter timelines from other sources some as low as 3 to 7 years. Those numbers describe pools where the gunite was applied too thin, cured too fast, or finished with inferior materials. That’s a builder problem, not a gunite problem.
Resurfacing when the time comes runs roughly $10,000 to $18,000 depending on pool size and finish type. Spread over 12 years, that’s a manageable part of owning a pool that will still be standing and functional decades from now. South Georgia’s long swimming season April through October in Relee means your pool gets real use every year, which makes the long-term durability of gunite construction genuinely worth the upfront investment.
Because Relee is in unincorporated Coffee County, all construction permits go through Coffee County’s building authority not a city or town government. That means you’re dealing with county-level permitting, which has its own documentation requirements, review timelines, and inspection sequence. At minimum, a residential pool build requires a building permit and an electrical permit. Inspections are required at multiple stages before the gunite is poured, after rough plumbing and electrical are in, and at final completion.
We handle all of this for every project we build. We pull the permits, schedule the inspections, and make sure every phase is signed off correctly before moving to the next step. An unpermitted pool in Coffee County creates real legal exposure it can result in fines, forced removal, and serious complications when you go to sell the property. Working with a builder who manages the permit process in-house, and who already has a working relationship with the county’s permitting office, removes that risk entirely.
For a residential gunite pool in Georgia, the realistic range is $75,000 to $150,000. Where your project lands in that range depends on the pool’s size and shape, the features you include spa, water features, lighting, automation the deck material and square footage, and any site-specific conditions like slope, access, or soil depth. Properties in unincorporated Coffee County tend to have more yard space than suburban lots, which means there’s often room to go bigger but bigger also means higher cost, so it’s worth having an honest conversation about what you actually want versus what looks good on paper.
Annual maintenance runs $2,700 to $4,000 depending on the service level and how much of it you handle yourself. That covers chemicals, equipment checks, and seasonal opening and closing. We offer maintenance programs that cover all of it, so you’re not managing it on your own. The full cost picture build, maintenance, and eventual resurfacing is something we’ll walk you through before you sign anything.
From signed contract to swimming, a realistic timeline for a custom gunite pool in Coffee County is three to six months. That includes the design and permitting phase, which typically runs four to eight weeks depending on how quickly the county processes the application, followed by construction. The construction phase itself excavation through final inspection generally takes eight to fourteen weeks depending on weather, site conditions, and project complexity.
The most common mistake people make is calling in March and expecting to swim by Memorial Day. It’s possible in rare cases, but it’s not a timeline you should count on. Homeowners who start the process in the fall October or November are in a much stronger position. Permit queues are shorter, crews are more available, and there are fewer weather delays. If swimming by next July is the goal, the conversation should start now, not in the spring when every pool builder in South Georgia is already booked out.
Yes and for Relee homeowners, that matters more than it might seem. Being in unincorporated Coffee County means you’re not a short drive from a pool supply store or a service company with a truck in your neighborhood. Having your builder also be your service provider means one phone call handles everything, whether it’s a routine maintenance visit, an equipment issue, or something that needs a closer look after a storm.
We offer weekly and seasonal maintenance programs and service all major pool equipment brands Hayward, Pentair, Jandy, Sta-Rite, and Zodiac. If something breaks down two years after your build, you’re calling the same company that installed it. We know the equipment, we know the pool, and we don’t have to spend the first hour figuring out what we’re looking at. Coffee County’s long swimming season means your equipment runs hard from April through October every year. Having a local service relationship in place before something goes wrong is just the smarter way to own a pool.
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