Every Pool Service We Offer in Killeen, TX
One team for every pool job in Killeen — from gunite & shotcrete pool construction to pool demolition & removal.
Killeen Pool Builders handles residential and commercial pool projects across Killeen and Bell and Coryell counties. From gunite & shotcrete pool construction to pool demolition & removal, every service below is handled by our own team and backed by our workmanship guarantee.
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Our Pool Services in Killeen, TX
Gunite & Shotcrete Pool Construction
Gunite pool construction gets you whatever shape you draw rather than whatever shape came out of a mold, and around Killeen the shape is the easy part. The hard part is what's under your grass, because most Bell and Coryell county lots sit on shallow Edwards limestone and caliche, and rock is the single biggest swing in a Central Texas pool price.
Fiberglass Pool Installation
Fiberglass pool installation trades shape for speed: the shell is built in a factory, arrives on a truck, gets craned into the hole, and a clean job goes from bare dirt to swimming in two to three weeks. On Killeen's rockier lots it's often the cheaper route as well, because a one-piece shell needs a smaller and more forgiving excavation than a gunite pool with its plumbing trenches and equipment runs, so when we hit limestone the hammer time is shorter and the bill is smaller.
Vinyl Liner Pools & Liner Replacement
Vinyl liner replacement takes two to four days and costs a fraction of replastering a gunite pool, which is the whole appeal of owning one. The catch in Central Texas is that there aren't many liner pools here, so the owners who have one spend a while on the phone finding somebody who still stocks bead track and knows what vermiculite is.
Pool Remodeling & Renovation
Pool remodeling covers the jobs that change the pool rather than just refinish it: adding a spa with a spillover, cutting in a tanning ledge, filling a deep end, raising a bond beam for a waterfall, or expanding the shell to claim back some patio. We do a lot of them in Killeen, because Fort Cavazos moves families every two or three years and a lot of these pools carry four owners' worth of repairs that nobody was here long enough to do properly.
Pool Resurfacing & Replastering
Pool resurfacing comes around sooner in Central Texas than the brochures suggest, because our water comes out of the Edwards and Trinity aquifers loaded with calcium, which is excellent for your bones and hard on your plaster. You notice the failure by feel before you see it: the floor stops being smooth and starts being abrasive, and somebody climbs out of the shallow end with a scraped toe.
Waterline Tile & Coping
Waterline tile takes an unfair share of the abuse in a pool: a six-inch strip carrying sunscreen, body oil, hard-water calcium, relentless UV and a freeze most Januaries. It's also the first thing anybody looks at, which is why a pool with a fresh tile band and average plaster reads better than the reverse, and why this is one of the highest-return jobs on the whole site.
Pool Decking & Hardscape
A pool deck in Killeen has to solve heat before it solves looks. Plain gray broom-finished concrete will hit roughly 140 degrees on a July afternoon, which is why everybody in this town sprints from the back door to the water like the lawn is on fire.
Spa & Hot Tub Installation
Spa and hot tub installation pays for itself between November and March, when the pool is too cold to be interesting and the water you actually want to get into is 102 degrees. Killeen gets a solid stretch of that, and a heated spa turns a good chunk of the off-season into something you use on a Tuesday night rather than look at through the window.
Water Features & Waterfalls
Pool waterfalls get bought for the look and kept for the sound. A sheer descent does a genuinely good job of covering road noise off Highway 190, and if you're under the Fort Cavazos flight paths, a bit of moving water in the yard does more for the place than any brochure photo suggests.
Pool Lighting & LED Retrofits
A pool light replacement is the cheapest upgrade that changes how the backyard feels after dark, and if yours is still an original 500-watt incandescent, you own something that hums, eats bulbs every couple of seasons, and makes clean water look faintly yellow. A modern LED puts out more usable light on around 40 watts, lasts roughly 30,000 hours, and does color if you want it.
Pool Automation & Controls
Pool automation puts the pumps, valves, heater, lights and water features on a schedule and on your phone. Nobody puts it on their wish list and nobody takes it back out, because within a week the spa is at 102 before you get home, the pool light comes on at dusk without anyone deciding, and the pump runs its long slow filtration cycle overnight while power is cheap.
Pool Heaters & Heat Pumps
A pool heater turns a four-month pool into a nine-month pool, and in Central Texas that's the best return per dollar in the entire backyard. Two technologies, two completely different personalities, and picking the wrong one is the most common expensive mistake we get called in to look at.
Variable-Speed Pumps & Filtration
A variable-speed pool pump does the same daily job as your old single-speed on a fraction of the electricity, and if you still have a single-speed it's probably the second-largest draw in your house after the air conditioner. A 1.5 HP single-speed motor spins at 3,450 RPM every second it runs, whether the pool needs that or not.
Saltwater Chlorination Systems
A saltwater pool is still a chlorine pool, and clearing that up first saves a lot of confusion. A salt cell passes a low current through dissolved salt and makes chlorine on site, steadily, all day, instead of you carrying jugs of liquid chlorine home from the store.
Pool Leak Detection & Repair
Pool leak detection starts with one number: a Killeen pool loses about a quarter inch a day to evaporation in July, so half an inch a day means you have a leak. The water bill is the smallest part of the problem, because a return line weeping under your deck is quietly washing out the base that concrete sits on, and you'll meet that again next year in the shape of a settled slab and a cracked joint.
Weekly Pool Cleaning & Maintenance
Weekly pool cleaning isn't hard, it's just weekly, and it never stops. A Central Texas summer is where good intentions fall over: water at 90 degrees burns through free chlorine in about a day, our fill water arrives full of calcium, and one thunderstorm rolling off the Lampasas Cut Plain drops enough debris and phosphate to turn a clear pool green by Thursday.
Commercial Pool Construction & Service
Commercial pool service solves a completely different problem to a backyard pool. Nobody staying three months cares what the tile looks like, they care that the pool's open, and the property cares that it passes inspection and that nothing happens that ends in a claim.
Pool Safety Fencing & Covers
A pool safety fence and cover are the two things that actually stand between a curious three-year-old and the water, and for most Killeen backyards a removable mesh fence is the right first move. Drowning is the leading cause of accidental death for children between one and four, and what works is layers: a barrier, a latch, an alarm, and a clear understanding of which adult is watching.
Pool Demolition & Removal
Pool removal gets recommended less often than it should, mostly because the company you're asking would rather sell you a remodel. We'll do the job straight, whether it's a rental where the liability outweighs the rent, an inherited shell that has been green for three summers, or an owner who would simply rather have a level yard and room for a shop.
What each of our services covers in Killeen
Open any service to see exactly what is included before you call.
Gunite & Shotcrete Pool Construction
Gunite pool construction gets you whatever shape you draw rather than whatever shape came out of a mold, and around Killeen the shape is the easy part.
The hard part is what's under your grass, because most Bell and Coryell county lots sit on shallow Edwards limestone and caliche, and rock is the single biggest swing in a Central Texas pool price.
There's a real difference between a yard that digs with a standard excavator in a day and one that needs a hydraulic hammer or a rock saw for a week.
- gunite pool construction
- shotcrete pool shell
- new inground pool builder
- custom pool design and 3D layout
- freeform and geometric pools
- tanning ledge and Baja shelf
- sport pools and lap pools
- pool and spa combinations
- rock excavation for limestone lots
- Killeen pool permits and inspections
- pool construction schedule
- hillside and sloped lot pool builds
Fiberglass Pool Installation
Fiberglass pool installation trades shape for speed: the shell is built in a factory, arrives on a truck, gets craned into the hole, and a clean job goes from bare dirt to swimming in two to three weeks.
On Killeen's rockier lots it's often the cheaper route as well, because a one-piece shell needs a smaller and more forgiving excavation than a gunite pool with its plumbing trenches and equipment runs, so when we hit limestone the hammer time is shorter and the bill is smaller. The surface is the other selling point.
- fiberglass pool installation
- one-piece fiberglass shells
- fast pool installation
- fiberglass pool with spa
- gelcoat repair and refinishing
- crane set fiberglass pools
- fiberglass pool prices
- salt friendly fiberglass surfaces
- fiberglass pool coping and decking
- fiberglass compared to gunite
Vinyl Liner Pools & Liner Replacement
Vinyl liner replacement takes two to four days and costs a fraction of replastering a gunite pool, which is the whole appeal of owning one. The catch in Central Texas is that there aren't many liner pools here, so the owners who have one spend a while on the phone finding somebody who still stocks bead track and knows what vermiculite is. We do, and we will.
- vinyl liner pool installation
- pool liner replacement
- 20 mil and 27 mil liners
- steel and polymer wall panels
- vermiculite pool floor
- liner patch, seam and gasket repair
- liner patterns and border prints
- custom liners for odd shapes
- vinyl liner pool cost
- liner track and coping replacement
Pool Remodeling & Renovation
Pool remodeling covers the jobs that change the pool rather than just refinish it: adding a spa with a spillover, cutting in a tanning ledge, filling a deep end, raising a bond beam for a waterfall, or expanding the shell to claim back some patio.
We do a lot of them in Killeen, because Fort Cavazos moves families every two or three years and a lot of these pools carry four owners' worth of repairs that nobody was here long enough to do properly. You know the look.
- swimming pool remodeling
- pool renovation and updates
- adding a spa to an existing pool
- tanning ledge addition
- pool reshaping and expansion
- diving pool to sport pool conversion
- raised bond beam and feature wall
- whole backyard redesign
- equipment pad rebuild and relocation
- remodel before selling or renting a home
Pool Resurfacing & Replastering
Pool resurfacing comes around sooner in Central Texas than the brochures suggest, because our water comes out of the Edwards and Trinity aquifers loaded with calcium, which is excellent for your bones and hard on your plaster. You notice the failure by feel before you see it: the floor stops being smooth and starts being abrasive, and somebody climbs out of the shallow end with a scraped toe. That scrape is the cream coat worn through.
- pool resurfacing
- pool replastering
- PebbleTec and pebble finishes
- polished quartz interiors
- white plaster and marcite
- glass bead finishes
- chip out, patch and bond coat
- calcium scale and etching removal
- interior finish color selection
- pool resurfacing cost
- plaster startup and 28-day brushing
Waterline Tile & Coping
Waterline tile takes an unfair share of the abuse in a pool: a six-inch strip carrying sunscreen, body oil, hard-water calcium, relentless UV and a freeze most Januaries.
It's also the first thing anybody looks at, which is why a pool with a fresh tile band and average plaster reads better than the reverse, and why this is one of the highest-return jobs on the whole site. When tiles start dropping off one at a time, the tile is rarely the guilty party.
- waterline tile replacement
- glass mosaic tile
- porcelain and ceramic pool tile
- travertine coping
- cantilevered concrete coping
- precast bullnose coping
- calcium scale removal and bead blasting
- loose and falling tile repair
- step and depth markers
- expansion joint and mastic replacement
Pool Decking & Hardscape
A pool deck in Killeen has to solve heat before it solves looks. Plain gray broom-finished concrete will hit roughly 140 degrees on a July afternoon, which is why everybody in this town sprints from the back door to the water like the lawn is on fire. Travertine sits 20 to 30 degrees cooler because the stone is pale and porous, and it's the upgrade our clients bring up most often when we call back a year later.
- pool deck installation and resurfacing
- cool deck spray texture
- travertine pool decks
- paver decking
- stamped and stained concrete
- pool deck coatings and sealers
- outdoor kitchens, pergolas and fire pits
- seat walls and retaining walls
- deck drainage and grading
- cracked and settled deck repair
- expansion joint replacement
Spa & Hot Tub Installation
Spa and hot tub installation pays for itself between November and March, when the pool is too cold to be interesting and the water you actually want to get into is 102 degrees.
Killeen gets a solid stretch of that, and a heated spa turns a good chunk of the off-season into something you use on a Tuesday night rather than look at through the window. Three ways in, and which one is right depends mostly on whether you already have a pool and what can physically get into your yard.
- attached gunite spa construction
- spa spillover and raised spa
- adding a hot tub to an existing pool
- standalone hot tub install
- therapy jets, blowers and bench layout
- dedicated spa heater and pump
- spa resurfacing and retiling
- swim spa installation
- spa automation and remote heat-up
- spa pad, wiring and access
Water Features & Waterfalls
Pool waterfalls get bought for the look and kept for the sound. A sheer descent does a genuinely good job of covering road noise off Highway 190, and if you're under the Fort Cavazos flight paths, a bit of moving water in the yard does more for the place than any brochure photo suggests. The options run from quiet to theatrical.
- pool waterfall construction
- sheer descent and rain curtain
- natural limestone and boulder waterfalls
- scuppers and spillways
- bubblers and deck jets on tanning ledges
- grottos and slides
- laminar jets with LED
- vanishing edge pools
- feature pump sizing and plumbing
- waterfall repair and resealing
Pool Lighting & LED Retrofits
A pool light replacement is the cheapest upgrade that changes how the backyard feels after dark, and if yours is still an original 500-watt incandescent, you own something that hums, eats bulbs every couple of seasons, and makes clean water look faintly yellow.
A modern LED puts out more usable light on around 40 watts, lasts roughly 30,000 hours, and does color if you want it. Across ten years of four-hour summer evenings the electricity saving alone covers the swap, and the color turns out to be a thing you use far more than you expect.
- pool light replacement
- LED pool light retrofit
- color changing LED pool and spa lights
- nicheless LED lighting
- fiber optic to LED conversion
- 12-volt low voltage lighting
- deck and landscape lighting
- GFCI and equipotential bonding
- wet niche and conduit repair
- waterlogged light fixture replacement
Pool Automation & Controls
Pool automation puts the pumps, valves, heater, lights and water features on a schedule and on your phone.
Nobody puts it on their wish list and nobody takes it back out, because within a week the spa is at 102 before you get home, the pool light comes on at dusk without anyone deciding, and the pump runs its long slow filtration cycle overnight while power is cheap.
Mechanically it's a controller on the equipment pad, relays for the heater and lights, actuators on the three-way valves, and a communication line back to a wall panel or an app.
- pool automation installation
- Pentair, Hayward and Jandy systems
- pool control from your phone
- automated chemical dosing
- ORP and pH sensors with feeders
- valve actuators and heat modes
- scheduling pumps, heaters, lights and features
- remote spa heat-up
- automation retrofit on older equipment pads
- freeze protection control
Pool Heaters & Heat Pumps
A pool heater turns a four-month pool into a nine-month pool, and in Central Texas that's the best return per dollar in the entire backyard. Two technologies, two completely different personalities, and picking the wrong one is the most common expensive mistake we get called in to look at. Natural gas is quick.
- pool heater installation
- natural gas and propane heaters
- electric pool heat pumps
- pool heater repair and diagnostics
- heater sizing by pool volume
- spa heater replacement
- solar pool heating panels
- gas line sizing and venting
- heat pump versus gas running cost
- heat exchanger scale and corrosion
Variable-Speed Pumps & Filtration
A variable-speed pool pump does the same daily job as your old single-speed on a fraction of the electricity, and if you still have a single-speed it's probably the second-largest draw in your house after the air conditioner. A 1.5 HP single-speed motor spins at 3,450 RPM every second it runs, whether the pool needs that or not.
A variable-speed pump gets the identical turnover at 1,200 to 1,800 RPM, and because power consumption scales with roughly the cube of speed, running slower for longer costs dramatically less.
- variable-speed pump installation
- pool pump repair and replacement
- cartridge filter systems
- DE filter grids and service
- sand filter media changes
- filter cleaning and backwashing
- motor bearings, seals and impellers
- equipment pad and plumbing rebuild
- energy efficient pool equipment
- noisy pump and priming issues
- booster pumps for pressure cleaners
Saltwater Chlorination Systems
A saltwater pool is still a chlorine pool, and clearing that up first saves a lot of confusion. A salt cell passes a low current through dissolved salt and makes chlorine on site, steadily, all day, instead of you carrying jugs of liquid chlorine home from the store.
The water sits at roughly 3,200 ppm salt, about a tenth of seawater and near the salinity of a tear, which is why it feels soft rather than like a day at the Gulf.
- salt chlorine generator installation
- salt cell replacement
- chlorine to saltwater conversion
- salt system repair and troubleshooting
- salt cell descaling and acid soaking
- salt level testing and dosing
- stainless and corrosion resistant fittings
- saltwater pool maintenance
- salt cell sizing and output
- saltwater versus chlorine running cost
Pool Leak Detection & Repair
Pool leak detection starts with one number: a Killeen pool loses about a quarter inch a day to evaporation in July, so half an inch a day means you have a leak.
The water bill is the smallest part of the problem, because a return line weeping under your deck is quietly washing out the base that concrete sits on, and you'll meet that again next year in the shape of a settled slab and a cracked joint. You can settle the basic question yourself in a day for nothing.
- pool leak detection
- underground plumbing leak repair
- pressure testing suction and return lines
- skimmer and return line leaks
- structural crack and shell repair
- light niche and conduit leaks
- dye testing and hydrophone listening
- spa and water feature leaks
- leak repair without breaking the deck
- pool losing water overnight
Weekly Pool Cleaning & Maintenance
Weekly pool cleaning isn't hard, it's just weekly, and it never stops. A Central Texas summer is where good intentions fall over: water at 90 degrees burns through free chlorine in about a day, our fill water arrives full of calcium, and one thunderstorm rolling off the Lampasas Cut Plain drops enough debris and phosphate to turn a clear pool green by Thursday. A service visit covers the lot.
- weekly pool cleaning service
- water testing and chemical balancing
- green pool cleanup and algae removal
- filter cleaning and backwashing
- skimmer and pump basket service
- brushing, netting, vacuuming and tile line
- salt cell inspection and cleaning
- pool opening and winterizing
- one-time and move-out pool cleanups
- rental property and PCS pool service
- monthly maintenance plans
Commercial Pool Construction & Service
Commercial pool service solves a completely different problem to a backyard pool. Nobody staying three months cares what the tile looks like, they care that the pool's open, and the property cares that it passes inspection and that nothing happens that ends in a claim. Killeen has a lot of that kind of pool, because a large stock of apartment communities, extended-stay hotels and RV parks serves a population that moves constantly.
- commercial pool construction
- hotel and motel pool service
- apartment community pools
- HOA pool maintenance contracts
- Texas commercial pool code compliance
- health department inspection readiness
- ADA pool lifts and accessible entry
- commercial resurfacing and remodels
- VGB-compliant main drain covers
- pump rooms and chemical controllers
- fitness center and RV park pools
Pool Safety Fencing & Covers
A pool safety fence and cover are the two things that actually stand between a curious three-year-old and the water, and for most Killeen backyards a removable mesh fence is the right first move. Drowning is the leading cause of accidental death for children between one and four, and what works is layers: a barrier, a latch, an alarm, and a clear understanding of which adult is watching. This is the least entertaining page on the site.
- removable mesh pool safety fence
- mesh safety cover installation
- automatic pool covers
- Texas pool barrier code
- self-closing self-latching gates
- pool and door alarms
- winter safety cover replacement
- solar and thermal blankets
- child and pet pool safety layers
- cover strap, track and anchor repair
Pool Demolition & Removal
Pool removal gets recommended less often than it should, mostly because the company you're asking would rather sell you a remodel. We'll do the job straight, whether it's a rental where the liability outweighs the rent, an inherited shell that has been green for three summers, or an owner who would simply rather have a level yard and room for a shop. No twenty-minute detour trying to talk you into a renovation you didn't come here for.
- swimming pool removal
- pool demolition and fill in
- partial pool removal
- full excavation and haul off
- engineered fill and compaction testing
- demolition permits and inspections
- abandoned pool remediation
- yard restoration after removal
- pool removal cost
- grading and drainage after fill
What Killeen property owners ask us
Which pool services does Killeen Pool Builders handle?
Everything listed on this page, residential and commercial, across Killeen and Bell and Coryell counties. Work is done by our own crews rather than handed to whoever is cheapest that week, which is the only way the workmanship warranty means anything.
Can I combine more than one service in a single job?
Yes, and it is usually cheaper. Bundling pool work into one mobilization saves setup, disposal and travel, and it means one crew, one schedule and one written free estimate instead of three contractors blaming each other.
Do you give free estimates for every service?
Every one. We come out, measure, look at the real condition of the work area, and put an itemized free estimate in writing with materials and scope spelled out. No charge, no deposit, and no obligation to book.
What Killeen Customers Say
Three quotes and only these people actually checked what was under the yard before giving us a number. We did hit rock, it cost what they said it would cost, and there were no surprise invoices. That alone was worth it.
Bought a house with a pool that had clearly been ignored by the last two tenants. Green to clean took four days and they were straight with us that a drain and acid wash was the better option for the staining. It looks new now.
We were deployed for nine months and they kept the pool running the whole time. Written report every week with a photo. Came home to clear water and a note about the pump seal they had replaced.
Salt cell had scaled solid. Instead of selling me a new one they cleaned it, showed me how to do it myself every few months, and charged me for a service call. I have used them for everything since.
We asked about building a pool with two years left on the assignment and they told us honestly it would not pay back at resale. We built anyway because we wanted the summers, but I have never had a contractor talk themselves down like that.
Service Areas
Killeen Pool Builders serves Killeen, TX and surrounding communities including: