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From late April through October, Central Georgia delivers the kind of heat and humidity that makes a backyard pool less of a luxury and more of a necessity. When you have a well-built concrete pool in your yard, summer stops being something you endure and starts being something your family looks forward to. Kids have somewhere to be. The backyard becomes the destination instead of the driveway.
But the outcome you’re really paying for isn’t the water it’s the permanence. A properly engineered concrete pool gets stronger over time. It doesn’t need a new liner every seven to ten years. It doesn’t pop out of the ground when Laurens County gets a heavy stretch of summer rain. It holds its shape, holds its value, and holds up to decades of real use without asking much in return.
For a Rentz homeowner who has worked to build equity in their property, that matters. The median home value in this zip code sits around $137,000. A concrete pool adds real, lasting value to that not just on paper, but in how you use the property every single day from spring through fall.
Deep Waters Pools was founded in 2014, but the experience behind it goes back more than thirty years. The people building your pool have spent decades working in concrete, plumbing, and pool construction specifically in Georgia’s climate and soil conditions. That’s not a resume line. It’s the difference between a pool that performs for forty years and one that shows problems in ten.
Rentz sits in the Upper Coastal Plain, where sandy loam soils behave differently than the red clay you find in other parts of Georgia. A builder without real regional experience doesn’t always account for that. We do because this is the same terrain we’ve been working in for years, across Laurens County and the broader Central and South Georgia corridor.
There’s no established local pool contractor actively serving Rentz. That means when you call Deep Waters Pools, you’re not getting a company stretched thin across a hundred markets. You’re getting a builder who takes this area seriously, shows up, and finishes what we start.
It starts with a conversation about how you actually want to use your backyard. From there, we produce a full 3D design rendering of your pool in your specific yard so you can see what you’re getting, make changes, and approve the design before a single shovel hits the ground. No surprises at the end because everything is agreed upon at the beginning.
Once the design is locked in, we handle the entire permit process with the Laurens County Building and Zoning Department. That includes the site plan drawn on your property plat, setback verification from your property lines, and coordination through every required inspection. In Georgia, building an inground pool without a permit creates real problems at resale, with insurance, and potentially with a stop-work order mid-build. We take that entire process off your plate.
From there, excavation begins, followed by the steel framework, concrete shell, plumbing, equipment installation, and finishing work on the deck and surrounding area. Timing depends on the scope of your project, but you’ll know the milestones upfront and hear from your builder regularly throughout. When it’s done, you’ll also have a custom-fitted safety cover sized specifically for your pool included as a standard part of every build, not an add-on.
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Every pool we build is concrete and that’s a deliberate choice, not a default. Concrete is the only pool material that can be built to any shape, any depth, and any configuration your yard and your lifestyle call for. It’s also the only material that genuinely strengthens over time, which matters in a region where the ground moves seasonally and summer storms can put real stress on a poorly constructed shell.
What you get with every build: a fully custom design rendered in 3D before construction begins, complete permit handling through Laurens County, steel-reinforced concrete construction engineered for the Upper Coastal Plain’s sandy loam soil profile, all plumbing and equipment installed and tested, a finished pool deck, and a custom safety cover fitted to your pool’s exact dimensions. If you want a spa, a sun shelf, water features, or specific decking materials, those conversations happen during the design phase not as surprises on a change order.
We also offer weekly maintenance plans for homeowners who want their pool ready to swim without spending their Saturday mornings testing chemicals and scrubbing walls. After a 26-minute commute each way to Dublin and a full work week, that option is worth considering. The goal is a pool that’s genuinely low-maintenance and a builder who stays involved long after the concrete cures.
Yes and skipping it creates serious problems down the road. In Rentz, inground pool construction falls under the jurisdiction of the Laurens County Building and Zoning Department. Before any excavation begins, you’ll need a building permit, a site plan drawn on your property plat showing all distances from property lines and easements, and a scheduled site inspection. Georgia also follows the International Swimming Pool and Spa Code as its state minimum standard, which sets baseline requirements for construction, safety barriers, and equipment.
An unpermitted pool isn’t just a code violation. It becomes a liability when you sell your home, a complication when you file an insurance claim, and potentially a very expensive fix if a stop-work order gets issued mid-construction. We handle every step of the permit process from the initial site plan through final inspection sign-off so you never have to figure out which form to file or which office to call. It’s built into the process from day one.
A custom concrete inground pool in the Laurens County area typically starts around $70,000 and can reach $150,000 or more depending on size, design complexity, site conditions, and features like an attached spa, sun shelf, or water elements. That range reflects the reality of custom construction no two yards are the same, and no two builds should be priced identically.
What matters more than the starting number is what’s included. We price transparently the quote you receive at the beginning reflects the project you’ll actually get at the end. There are no square-foot add-ons for patio work that weren’t discussed, no permit fees that appear after you’ve signed, and no change orders for things that should have been accounted for in the original scope. For a Rentz homeowner making a major investment relative to local home values, that kind of pricing clarity isn’t a bonus it’s the baseline expectation you should hold any builder to.
Fiberglass pools come pre-formed in a factory and dropped into a hole in your yard. That means you’re limited to whatever shapes and sizes the manufacturer offers, and you’re trusting that the shell was designed for your specific ground conditions which it wasn’t. In Laurens County’s Upper Coastal Plain, the sandy loam soil profile and seasonal rainfall patterns create real stress on a pool shell that wasn’t engineered for this terrain. Fiberglass shells can pop out of the ground when hydrostatic pressure builds beneath them during heavy rain events, which Central Georgia sees regularly throughout the summer.
Concrete pools are engineered from the ground up for your specific yard. The steel framework and shell thickness are designed around the actual soil and drainage conditions on your property. Over time, the concrete continues to cure and strengthen it doesn’t degrade, it doesn’t need a liner, and it doesn’t limit you to a catalog of pre-set shapes. For a homeowner in Rentz who plans to stay in their home for the next twenty or thirty years, concrete is simply the more durable, more permanent, and ultimately more cost-effective choice.
From signed contract to finished pool, a custom concrete inground pool typically takes somewhere between eight and sixteen weeks, depending on the size and complexity of the build, weather conditions, and how smoothly the permit process moves through the Laurens County Building and Zoning Department. Larger pools with spas, water features, or custom decking naturally take longer than a straightforward rectangular build.
The most common reason timelines stretch isn’t the construction itself it’s permit delays caused by incomplete applications or builders who don’t know the local process. Because we handle the entire permit coordination for Rentz and Laurens County builds, that bottleneck gets removed early. If you’re planning to have the pool ready for summer use, the best time to start the conversation is late winter or early spring January through March so the permit is approved and excavation can begin before the busy season hits. Waiting until May to start the process typically means a late-summer finish at best.
Research consistently shows that inground pools add between 5% and 7% to a home’s resale value on average. In a market where the median home value in the Rentz zip code sits around $137,000, that’s a real and meaningful number not a rounding error. A well-built concrete pool that’s properly permitted, maintained, and documented adds genuine equity to the property.
The key word there is “well-built.” An unpermitted pool, a pool with structural issues, or a pool that requires costly repairs at the point of sale can actually work against you at closing. Buyers and their inspectors notice. A concrete pool built by a licensed contractor, permitted through Laurens County, and maintained on a regular schedule is an asset. A pool built by someone who cut corners, skipped the permit, or used inferior materials is a liability. The difference between the two often comes down to who you hired in the first place and whether they were willing to stand behind the work long after the concrete dried.
Yes and rural lots are actually where concrete construction tends to shine. Larger parcels common in the Rentz area and the surrounding Laurens County countryside give you more flexibility in pool placement, orientation, and design. You’re not working around a tight suburban setback with neighbors ten feet away on every side. That means the pool can be positioned to take advantage of your yard’s natural layout, sun exposure, and existing landscaping.
That said, rural lots come with their own site considerations. Soil conditions, drainage patterns, and utility line locations all factor into how the build is engineered and where equipment is placed. The sandy loam soils of the Upper Coastal Plain drain differently than clay-heavy soils, and a builder who understands that profile will engineer the pool’s foundation and surrounding drainage accordingly. We have worked in this terrain and know what to look for before excavation begins which is exactly why the process starts with a site evaluation, not just a design conversation.
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