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Quitman sits in USDA Hardiness Zone 9a one of the warmest zones in Georgia. That means you’re looking at a realistic swimming season from April through October, with plenty of mild days on either end where the patio still gets used. A well-designed inground pool here isn’t a seasonal luxury you enjoy for two months. It’s a backyard you actually live in for most of the year.
Brooks County properties tend to have something most suburban neighborhoods don’t: room. Whether you’re on acreage outside the city, a larger in-town lot in Quitman proper, or a rural property along one of the county roads, you have space to think beyond just the pool itself. That’s where the real transformation happens when the pool, the patio, the water features, and the landscape all come together as one cohesive outdoor environment instead of a pool dropped in the middle of a yard.
The other thing worth knowing is that Brooks County’s Coastal Plain soils are sandy loam not the red clay you find in North Georgia. Sandy soils behave differently during excavation and backfill. A builder who hasn’t worked in this specific terrain can run into structural and drainage problems they didn’t anticipate. Getting the design right from the start, with someone who understands what’s actually under your Quitman yard, is what separates a pool that performs for 30 years from one that gives you headaches at year five.
We’re based in Douglas, GA the county seat of Coffee County, sitting right on US 84, the same highway that runs straight through the heart of Quitman. This isn’t a Valdosta franchise or an Atlanta company expanding its service map south. We’re a South Georgia operation that has been working in this region’s climate, soil conditions, and permit environment for over 30 years.
That regional familiarity matters more than it might sound. When we evaluate a Brooks County property whether it’s inside Quitman’s city limits or out along one of the rural county roads we’re not guessing at what we’ll find. We’ve built in sandy Coastal Plain soils, navigated both Quitman city and Brooks County permit processes, and managed projects through South Georgia’s summer storms and tropical weather patterns long enough to know what to plan for before it becomes your problem.
We specialize specifically in gunite concrete pool construction. That focus means every part of our process design, engineering, crew, materials is optimized for concrete builds, not split across three different product types. When you hire Deep Waters Pools, you’re getting a team that does one thing and does it well.
It starts with a site visit and a real conversation. We come to your property, look at the lot, talk through what you’re envisioning, and ask the questions that matter how you use your backyard, what features you’ve been thinking about, what your timeline looks like. No pressure, no pitch. Just an honest assessment of what’s possible on your specific property.
From there, we move into design. Before any work begins, you see your pool in full 3D the shape, the finish, the water features, the surrounding patio, all of it rendered so you can actually visualize what you’re committing to. You can make changes, explore different features, and adjust the layout until it’s right. For a project of this size, seeing it first isn’t a bonus it’s how decisions should be made.
Once the design is locked in, we handle all permitting. If your property is within Quitman’s city limits, that means working through the City of Quitman’s Land Development Code and pulling permits through City Hall on East Screven Street. If you’re in unincorporated Brooks County, it goes through the Brooks County Building and Zoning Department. Either way, that’s on us not you. Construction typically runs 8 to 12 weeks depending on scope and site conditions, and we communicate throughout. If something unexpected comes up during excavation, you hear about it from us before we make any decisions, not after.
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Quitman is about 40 miles from Tallahassee. Most Brooks County homeowners have spent time across the state line and seen what resort-style pools actually look like infinity edges, tanning ledges, integrated spas, fire bowls, custom water features, and landscape that flows naturally into the water. Those aren’t features reserved for Florida resorts. We build all of it, on South Georgia properties, in gunite concrete that will still be performing decades from now.
Gunite is the only pool material that gives you true design freedom. Fiberglass pools are pre-molded you pick from a limited set of shapes and that’s what you get. With concrete, the pool is built from scratch on your property, to whatever shape, depth, and configuration fits your land and your vision. That matters especially on the larger lots common in Brooks County, where a cookie-cutter shape would look out of place against the scale of the property.
Beyond new construction, we also handle renovations, repairs, liner replacement, tile and coping work, equipment servicing, chemical treatments, and custom safety covers sized to fit your pool’s exact dimensions. The relationship doesn’t end when the build is done. If you want one company that knows your pool from the ground up and can service it for the long haul, that’s what we’re built to be.
Yes and the process depends on where your property sits. If you’re within Quitman’s city limits, pool construction falls under the City of Quitman’s Land Development Code, which requires prior authorization before any development begins. Permits for city-limit properties are pulled through Quitman City Hall at 100 East Screven Street. If your property is in unincorporated Brooks County, the permit process runs through the Brooks County Building and Zoning Department instead.
On top of local permits, Georgia state law requires that any pool contractor performing residential work above $2,500 holds a valid Georgia residential contractor license. Electrical bonding compliance is also mandated under Georgia building codes for all inground pool construction this is a structural safety requirement, not optional. We handle all of this on your behalf. You don’t have to figure out which jurisdiction applies to your Quitman address or what forms need to be filed. We manage the permitting, inspection scheduling, and compliance documentation from start to finish.
For most custom gunite pool projects in the Quitman area, construction runs between 8 and 12 weeks from permit approval to completion. The exact timeline depends on the scope of the design a pool with an integrated spa, custom water features, and a full patio surround takes longer than a straightforward pool build and on site conditions specific to your property.
Brooks County’s sandy loam soils generally excavate more smoothly than the red clay common in North Georgia, but sandy soils can present their own variables during backfill and drainage work. Properties near creek drainages or lower-lying areas of the county may require additional drainage engineering, which can add time if it isn’t anticipated in the initial site evaluation. The best way to protect your timeline is to start the process in fall or early winter that positions you for a spring completion and gets you in the water before summer heat peaks. If a Memorial Day target matters to you, late fall is when the conversation should start.
The short version: fiberglass pools are manufactured as pre-molded shells in a factory, then delivered to your property and dropped into an excavation. You choose from whatever shapes and sizes the manufacturer offers, and that’s what you get. Gunite pools are built from scratch, on your property, using a high-pressure concrete application process that allows for any shape, any depth, any configuration, and any combination of features you want.
That distinction matters a lot on the kinds of properties common in Brooks County. If you’re on a larger lot, an acreage property, or a rural homestead around Quitman, a pre-molded fiberglass shape can look undersized and out of place against the scale of the land. A custom gunite pool can be designed to fit the property not the other way around. Gunite also supports design features that fiberglass simply can’t accommodate at the same level: true infinity edges, beach entries, tanning ledges, integrated spas with custom dimensions, and complex water feature configurations. It costs more upfront than fiberglass, and a properly built concrete pool will typically outlast a fiberglass shell by decades.
Yes and this is one of the most common misconceptions we run into. A lot of homeowners assume infinity edges only work on hillside or elevated properties with a dramatic drop-off view. The visual effect of an infinity edge actually comes from precision engineering, not geography. It’s created through a catch basin, recirculating plumbing, and exact water level management that makes the water appear to vanish at the edge. The terrain helps frame the view, but it doesn’t determine whether the feature is buildable.
Brooks County’s landscape is primarily flat Coastal Plain terrain that’s just the geography of South Georgia. It doesn’t rule out an infinity edge. What it does mean is that the design needs to account for how the pool sits on the lot and what the sightline looks like from the primary viewing angle, whether that’s from the house, the patio, or a specific point in the yard. We’ve designed vanishing edge pools for Quitman properties without dramatic elevation changes, and when the engineering and placement are done right, the effect is exactly what you’re picturing.
A custom gunite pool in the Quitman area typically starts in the range of $60,000 to $80,000 for a straightforward inground pool without major added features. Once you start incorporating elements like an integrated spa, infinity edge, tanning ledge, custom water features, or a full patio and outdoor living space, the investment generally moves into the $90,000 to $150,000+ range depending on scope and finish selections.
The honest answer is that pricing varies significantly based on your specific lot, the complexity of the design, and what’s discovered during site evaluation particularly with Brooks County’s sandy soils and any drainage considerations that may be relevant to your property. What we don’t do is give you a low number to get the contract signed and then revise it upward once construction starts. If site conditions affect cost, you hear about it before we proceed, not after. In warm-climate markets like South Georgia, a professionally built inground pool typically adds 7% or more to residential property value which helps frame the investment as something that builds equity, not just something you spend money on.
That’s actually one of the more interesting design challenges we work with, and Quitman has more of them than most South Georgia towns. The city’s historic district is one of the largest per capita in the country a lot of the established properties here have real architectural character, mature landscaping, and a sense of place that a generic pool design would clash with rather than complement.
The 3D design process we use is specifically valuable in situations like this. Before anything is built, you see the pool rendered in the context of your actual property the existing landscape, the architectural lines of the home, the way the yard flows. That means design decisions get made visually, not on paper, and you can see whether a particular shape, finish, or feature works with the character of the property before committing. For homeowners in and around Quitman’s historic neighborhoods, that visibility matters. A pool that looks like it belongs on the property is a very different outcome from a pool that looks like it was installed on it.
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