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Lowndes County’s summers are long and they are serious. Average July highs push past 90°F, and the heat doesn’t let up until October. That’s nearly seven months of weather that makes a backyard pool genuinely useful not just a nice idea, but something your family actually uses from April through fall. A well-built gunite pool turns that season into something you look forward to instead of something you spend wishing you’d built sooner.
For Remerton homeowners, a custom inground pool also does something practical: it adds value to your property. A professionally built gunite pool increases home value by approximately 7%, and in a market where homes are priced between $80,000 and $150,000, that’s not a small number. More importantly, it’s a permanent improvement not a temporary fix built into the ground and engineered to last for decades when it’s done correctly.
The difference between a pool that holds up and one that doesn’t almost always comes down to the builder. Gunite is the most durable, most customizable pool material available. It’s been the industry standard for custom residential pools since the 1940s. But it has to be built right right rebar density, right shell thickness, right curing time, and a design that accounts for South Georgia’s specific soil conditions. That’s not something you figure out on the job. That’s 30 years of hands-on experience in this exact region.
We’re a family-owned pool construction company based in Douglas, GA, serving South Georgia since 2014 but the team behind it has been pouring concrete, running plumbing, and building custom pools in this region for more than 30 years. We started the company because we watched too many South Georgia families get burned by builders who cut corners, subcontracted everything, and disappeared after the check cleared.
In a market like Remerton sitting inside Valdosta, surrounded by competing options that backstory matters. There are other pool companies serving Lowndes County. Some are good. But very few of them keep every phase of construction in-house the way we do. Excavation, rebar, gunite application, plumbing, electrical, decking it’s all handled by the same team from start to finish. That means one point of accountability, one phone number, and one crew that actually knows your pool because we built it.
We also handle every permit in-house, including the building and electrical permits required through Remerton’s own City Hall on Poplar Street a separate jurisdiction from Lowndes County and the City of Valdosta that not every builder knows to navigate correctly.
It starts with a site evaluation and a 3D design rendering of your pool your specific yard, your dimensions, your features. You see exactly what you’re getting before any excavation begins. In a city as compact as Remerton, where lot sizes aren’t generous and placement relative to your home and property lines matters, that design precision isn’t optional. It’s how you avoid surprises.
Once the design is approved, we handle the permitting. Because Remerton is its own municipality separate from Lowndes County and the City of Valdosta pool construction requires permits pulled through Remerton City Hall at 1757 Poplar Street, not through the county building department. That’s a distinction that catches builders who don’t know this market. We know it, handle it, and keep you out of the paperwork entirely. Georgia 811 utility marking is coordinated before any ground is broken.
From there, construction moves through excavation, rebar installation, gunite shell application, plumbing, electrical bonding and grounding, and deck construction all completed by the same in-house crew. Curing and finishing follow before equipment installation and final inspection. The best time to start this process in the Remerton area is fall or early winter. Permit queues are shorter, crews are more available, and your pool is ready when April arrives and South Georgia’s swimming season opens back up.
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A Deep Waters gunite pool isn’t a product pulled from a catalog. Every pool is custom-designed for the specific property it’s going into shape, depth, features, and structural engineering all determined by your site, your soil, and what you actually want to use the pool for. The gunite shell is engineered with the Coastal Plain geology of Lowndes County in mind: the sandy loam and clay mix that characterizes South Georgia ground requires specific rebar density and shell thickness to perform correctly over decades. That’s not a generic spec. It’s a site-specific decision made by people who’ve been building in this soil for 30 years.
Every phase of the build is in-house: excavation, rebar framework, gunite application, all plumbing, electrical bonding and grounding per NEC Article 680, equipment installation, and deck construction. There are no subcontractors. The same team that breaks ground is the same team that hands you the keys. We also service all major equipment brands Hayward, Pentair, Jandy, Sta-Rite, and Zodiac and offer weekly, monthly, and seasonal maintenance plans so you have one trusted contact for the life of your pool, not just the build.
For military families stationed at Moody Air Force Base who own property in the Lowndes County area, that long-term service relationship is especially valuable. You don’t need to be on-site to manage every maintenance call when your builder is also your servicer and we already know your pool inside and out.
Yes and this is where a lot of homeowners run into trouble if their builder isn’t paying attention. Remerton is its own municipality, separate from Lowndes County and the City of Valdosta. That means pool construction in Remerton requires permits pulled through Remerton City Hall at 1757 Poplar Street not through the county building department, and not through Valdosta’s permitting office. Builders who don’t know this distinction can file through the wrong jurisdiction, which causes delays, re-filings, and potential penalties.
Beyond the building permit, a gunite pool in Georgia also requires an electrical permit and compliance with NEC Article 680, which governs bonding and grounding for swimming pools. Every required inspection phase must be completed and signed off before construction moves forward. We handle all of it in-house building permit, electrical permit, every inspection so you never have to track a form or schedule an inspector yourself. The city’s own guidance is clear: unpermitted pool work creates problems at home sale and refinancing. Getting it done right the first time protects your investment.
This question comes up a lot in the Valdosta and Lowndes County market, partly because at least one local pool company has built their marketing around the claim that Southern ground shifts cause gunite shells to crack. It’s worth addressing directly: cracking in a gunite pool is a builder failure, not a material failure. It happens when the shell is applied too thin, when rebar is undersized, when curing is rushed, or when the structural design doesn’t account for the specific soil conditions of the site.
South Georgia’s Coastal Plain geology the sandy loam and clay mix that characterizes Lowndes County ground is a known variable, not a mystery. A gunite pool engineered for that soil, with appropriate rebar density, correct shell thickness, and adequate curing time, does not crack from normal ground movement. We’ve been building in South Georgia soil for more than 30 years. The engineering approach we use is designed specifically for this region’s ground conditions. The builders who see cracking problems are the ones who apply a generic spec to a site that requires a specific one.
For most residential gunite pool projects in the Lowndes County area, you’re looking at a range of $75,000 to $150,000 depending on size, shape, features, and site conditions. That range accounts for the full build design, permits, excavation, shell, plumbing, electrical, equipment, and decking. Custom features like water elements, lighting packages, or specialty finishes move the number higher. A straightforward custom pool with standard features sits toward the lower end of that range.
It’s also worth thinking about the ongoing costs. Annual maintenance in this region typically runs $2,700 to $4,000 depending on usage and the maintenance plan you choose. Resurfacing on a quality gunite build is generally needed every 10 to 15 years. These aren’t hidden costs they’re predictable ones, and knowing them upfront helps you plan. For Remerton homeowners whose property values sit between $80,000 and $150,000, a pool that adds roughly 7% in property value while extending your usable outdoor season to seven months a year is a meaningful return on a well-planned investment.
The short version: gunite is permanent, fully custom, and built in place. Fiberglass is manufactured off-site in a fixed mold and dropped into the ground. Both work, but they’re different products for different priorities. Gunite gives you complete control over shape, size, and depth there’s no mold limiting what your pool can look like. It’s also structurally permanent, with a shell that’s part of the ground rather than sitting in it. Fiberglass pools install faster and have a smooth interior surface that some people prefer, but you’re choosing from a catalog of pre-made shapes, and the size limits are real.
In South Georgia’s climate, both materials can perform well when built or installed correctly. The anti-gunite arguments you may have seen circulating in the Valdosta market cracking from soil movement, high electricity use, replastering costs are legitimate concerns about poorly built gunite pools, not about gunite as a material. A properly engineered gunite shell built for Lowndes County’s soil conditions doesn’t crack. Resurfacing every 10 to 15 years is a known, budgetable maintenance item. And modern variable-speed pump equipment has largely closed the energy efficiency gap. The decision comes down to what you want your pool to look like and how long you want it to last.
From the start of permitting to your first swim, most custom gunite pool builds in the Remerton area take between 8 and 14 weeks, depending on the complexity of the design, site conditions, and where you are in the permit queue when you start. The permitting phase alone can take two to four weeks depending on the time of year and how busy Remerton’s City Hall permit office is running.
This is why timing matters more than most homeowners realize. If you start the process in spring when pool demand peaks and everyone wants to be swimming by June you’re competing with a longer permit queue and busier construction crews. Starting in the fall or early winter gives you shorter wait times at every stage and puts your pool in the ground during a period when South Georgia’s weather still allows year-round construction. The result is a pool that’s finished, inspected, and ready to use when April arrives and the swimming season opens. The homeowners who plan ahead are the ones swimming in May. The ones who wait until March are swimming in August if they’re lucky.
Yes. We’re based in Douglas, GA and serve South Georgia broadly, including Remerton and the surrounding Lowndes County area. Because Remerton is its own municipality a city fully enclosed within Valdosta’s boundaries it has its own permitting jurisdiction, and we’re familiar with that process specifically. Permits for in-ground pools in Remerton are pulled through Remerton City Hall on Poplar Street, and we handle that in-house as part of every build.
Remerton’s location inside Valdosta also means we serve the broader Valdosta metro area from the same project including homeowners in the surrounding Lowndes County neighborhoods, military families who own property near Moody Air Force Base, and VSU faculty and staff who live in the area. If you own a home in or around Remerton and you’re researching gunite pool builders, we’re worth a direct conversation. We’ll walk you through what a build looks like on your specific property, what the permit process involves for your address, and what a realistic timeline and investment looks like for your situation.
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