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When a pool is built correctly, it stops being a project and starts being part of your life. No callbacks, no liner replacements every decade, no wondering if the plumbing was done right. Just a pool that works the way it should, season after season.
Adel sits squarely in one of the longest pool seasons in the country. When summer highs push into the upper 90s and the nights stay warm well into October, a well-built pool is not a luxury it is a legitimate extension of your home. Families in Cook County are outside more than most, and a pool that holds up to that kind of consistent use needs to be built for it, not just sold to you.
The soil conditions across Cook County ranging from sandy loam to red clay depending on where your property sits affect how a pool shell should be engineered, how drainage gets planned, and how the structure performs over time. A builder who has only worked in one soil type or one climate will not catch those details. A builder who has spent decades in South Georgia will.
We’re based in Douglas, Georgia about 50 miles from Adel and have been building custom inground pools across South Georgia since 2014. Our founder didn’t start by selling pools. He spent more than 30 years actually building them, learning every phase of construction hands-on before launching our operation.
We exist because our founder watched South Georgia families people just like the ones in Adel and throughout Cook County get taken advantage of by contractors who took deposits, went quiet, and left projects sitting unfinished for months. We started this company to be the alternative to that experience.
Every pool we build is managed and constructed by one team. From the first site visit to the day you fill the pool, there is one point of contact, one crew, and one company accountable for the entire build. That is not how most pool contractors operate, and it makes a real difference in how your project goes.
It starts with a site evaluation. Before any design is finalized or any money changes hands, our team looks at your specific property soil conditions, drainage, utility locations, equipment access, and anything else that could affect how the build goes. In Cook County, that step matters more than it might in other markets. The soil profile on a rural acreage lot outside Adel can be very different from a subdivision lot closer to town, and the pool has to be engineered for what is actually there.
From there, the design is built around your property and what you want not around what is easiest to build or what a manufacturer happens to offer. Gunite construction means the pool is built on-site, shaped to your land and your vision. Once design is locked in, we handle all permitting through the Cook County Building and Zoning Department, including electrical permits and the inspection schedule. You do not have to navigate any of that.
Construction typically runs six to eight weeks from groundbreaking. Excavation comes first, followed by steel reinforcement, gunite shell application, plumbing and filtration installation, electrical work, and finally pool deck installation. The same crew handles each phase. When the project is done, it is done inspected, code-compliant, and ready to fill.
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A Deep Waters pool is a custom gunite build from start to finish. Gunite is pneumatically applied concrete, constructed on your specific site to whatever shape, depth, and dimension your property and preferences call for. It is not a pre-formed fiberglass shell dropped into a hole, and it is not a vinyl liner stretched over a steel frame. It is a permanent structure engineered for the ground it sits on which matters a great deal when that ground is in South Georgia.
The full build includes excavation, structural steel cage fabrication, gunite shell application, all pool plumbing and filtration system installation, electrical bonding and grounding to NEC Article 680 standards, and pool deck installation. Every component is handled in-house by our team. There are no subcontractors cycling in and out on their own schedules, and there is no phase of your project where accountability goes unclear.
Georgia law requires barrier fencing around all new residential pools, and federal law mandates anti-entrapment drain covers on every new build under the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act. We build to full compliance on both because a permitted, inspected, code-compliant pool protects you legally and at resale in ways that a corner-cut build never will. For Adel homeowners, that documentation matters when it comes time to sell.
Yes pool construction in Cook County requires a building permit issued by the Cook County Building and Zoning Department, located on South Hutchinson Avenue in Adel. You will also need a separate electrical permit, and the project will go through multiple inspections before it is considered complete. If your property sits within Adel city limits rather than unincorporated Cook County, the permitting process may run through the city’s building office instead it depends on exactly where your property line falls.
We handle all of this as a standard part of every build. You do not have to make a trip to the permit office, track an inspection timeline, or figure out which jurisdiction your property falls under. Our team pulls the permits, schedules the inspections, and delivers a finished pool that is fully documented and code-compliant. For homeowners who have never been through a pool build before, that alone removes a significant source of stress from the process.
A typical custom gunite pool build with us runs six to eight weeks from the day excavation begins. That timeline covers every phase excavation, steel reinforcement, gunite shell application, plumbing and filtration installation, electrical work, and pool deck installation. South Georgia’s climate works in your favor here. Unlike pool builders in northern states who lose weeks to frozen ground or hard freezes, construction in the Adel area can proceed through most of the year without weather-related shutdowns. Summer thunderstorms are common from May through September, but they are typically brief and do not cause multi-day delays.
The six-to-eight-week window assumes a straightforward build on a reasonably accessible lot. Properties with significant grade changes, unusual soil conditions, or complex site access may require additional planning time upfront which is exactly why the site evaluation happens before anything else. Getting that step right protects the timeline for everything that follows.
The core difference is how and where the pool is built. A fiberglass pool is manufactured in a factory as a pre-formed shell, delivered to your property, and lowered into an excavated hole. Your shape options are limited to whatever the manufacturer produces, and the size is capped by what can fit on a delivery truck. A gunite pool is built on your specific site using pneumatically applied concrete, which means the shape, depth, and dimensions are entirely customizable to your property and what you want.
From a longevity standpoint, gunite pools carry a functional lifespan of 25 to 30-plus years with proper maintenance. Fiberglass pools typically require significant structural attention or replacement after 15 to 25 years. Vinyl liner pools a third option require liner replacement every 8 to 12 years at a cost of roughly $3,000 to $5,000 per replacement. For Cook County homeowners making a long-term investment in their property, the math on a properly built gunite pool tends to hold up better over time than either alternative.
A standard custom inground pool build generally falls in the range of $55,000 to $100,000, depending on size, shape, depth, and the specific features included. Builds that involve premium decking materials, water features, complex site conditions, or larger footprints can push beyond that range. For most residential properties in Adel and Cook County, a well-built custom gunite pool with a concrete deck and standard filtration system will fall somewhere in the middle of that window.
What affects cost most in this market is site-specific: how accessible your lot is for excavation equipment, what the soil conditions require in terms of shell engineering, how much deck area you want, and what features lighting, water features, automation are part of the design. The site evaluation that happens before any contract is signed is where those variables get identified and priced honestly. There should not be major cost surprises after you have agreed to a scope of work, and with us, there are not.
In warm-climate markets like South Georgia, a properly permitted and built inground pool typically adds somewhere between 5% and 8% to residential property value. On a $200,000 home in Adel, that translates to $10,000 to $16,000 in added equity. On a $250,000 property, you are looking at $12,500 to $20,000. Those numbers reflect what appraisers and real estate professionals see in markets where outdoor living season is long enough to make a pool a genuine lifestyle asset which Adel’s 8-to-9-month pool season clearly qualifies as.
The key word in that equation is “properly.” A pool that was built without permits, by a contractor who cut corners on plumbing or electrical, or one that was left unfinished and patched together over time, does not add value the same way. It can actually complicate a sale. A Deep Waters pool comes with full documentation permits pulled, inspections passed, code compliance confirmed which means it shows up correctly in an appraisal and does not create legal or disclosure headaches when you eventually sell.
Yes and for many homeowners in the Adel area, fall and winter are actually smart times to start. South Georgia’s mild winters mean that gunite construction can proceed without the freeze-thaw complications that shut down pool builds in most of the country. Hard freezes in Cook County are infrequent and brief, and they do not create the ground conditions that make winter construction impractical further north. Scheduling a build for the fall or winter often means better crew availability and a pool that is ready before the following summer season begins.
The planning season for most South Georgia pool buyers runs January through March, with construction demand peaking from spring through summer. If you start that process in the fall site evaluation, design, permitting you can be ahead of the spring rush and in the water by April or May. For Adel families who want to actually use the pool all season rather than watch it get finished in July, starting the conversation earlier in the year consistently produces a better outcome.
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