Pool

About US

Starting out way back in 1986 with the Recreational Factory Warehouse store in Lakeland, my brother and I knowing almost nothing and with only a couple shovels, a rake, measuring tape, and a two foot level, built our first above ground swimming pool. It took us two days to build that small round above ground and it probably wasn't very level or round and the liner probably had a lot of wrinkles in it. That was about three thousand installs ago.

Way back then in the eighties, Rec Warehouse was just about the only place to get an above ground. There were a couple of Doughboy dealers sprinkled about and Sears sold pools by Muskin, but that was about it so the Rec stores sold almost all the above ground pools in Central Florida. We installed pools only for Rec for some years and it was easier because they only had a few models and we could make fast work of it. One day in the early nineties, I got a call from a local Pinch-a-Penny store to install one of the pools that they just started selling. It took twice as long to build those first Pinch-a-Penny pools as we weren't familiar with them. Times were changing though and we started building more and more pools that were purchased other than from Rec Warehouse.

By the mid to late nineties we were building pools for many different pool stores. Rec still sold most of the above grounds around but others were definitely selling their share. After a few years of this, we became very comfortable with building several models of pools for a few different manufacturers. At this point I felt we had a broad knowledge of above ground pools because we had built so many different ones. But this was nothing compared to what was next. I still remember the first time I went out to build a pool that someone bought from this thing called the internet.

By now we were using a couple of machines for excavating, a laser level and several very specialty tools for building above grounds. We rolled up in our rig to a house in Polk county and when I asked the homeowner where the pool was, he took me to his garage where there was a pallet holding the pool with its boxes securely stacked in shrink wrap. I asked where he got the pool and he said he bought in online. This was the beginning of the current trend of where above ground swimming pools are mostly purchased. The result for us installers was that we were now installing any above ground pool that someone would find on the internet from anywhere. Because of this, our knowledge of above ground swimming pools went ballistic as we learned about every model, every design, and from every manufacturer that makes above grounds.

So now here we are. With nearly thirty years of building, fixing, re-lining, and sometimes modifying all types of above ground swimming pools, I now might know a thing or two about them. And I try to use this knowledge to help guide people in choosing the right above ground pool package and then (hopefully) they choose us to install it properly. This website is full of thirty years worth of opinion and guidance for purchasing, installing, and maintaining above ground pools. If you have any question about swimming pools, please ask here. It feeds my ego if I can answer your question and excites me if I can't. Even though I've been around these pools for such a long time, I still come across things I haven't seen or heard of and am still hungry to learn.

We have sold and/or installed above ground pools in these areas

Orlando, kissimmee, Altamonte Springs, Longwood, Winter Springs, Winter Park, Lockhart, Deltona, Orange City, Deland, Oviedo, New Smyrna, Cocoa, Cocoa Beach, Merritt Island, Port St. John, Christmas, Mims, titusville, Avon Park, Pine hills, Sky lake, Orlo Vista, Hunters Creek, Celebration, Orange county, Ocoee, Clermont, Winter Garden, Montverde, Minneola, Ferndale, Lake County, Groveland, Mascotte, Forest City, Apopka, Zellwood, Tangerine, Astatula, Howey-in-the-hills, Mt. Dora, Tavares, Eustis, Leesburg, Lady Lake, Fruitland Park, Umatilla, Altoona, Paisley, Mt. Plymouth, Maitland, Altomonte Springs, Longwood, Oviedo, Chuluota, Geneva, Sanford, Lake Mary, De Bary, Lake Helen, Daytona Beach, Union Park, Azalea Park, Conway, Pine Castle, Belle Isle, Taft, Bithlo, Wedgefield, Christmas, Mims, Oak Hill, Port St. John, Meadow Woods, BVL, Buena Ventura Lakes, Narcoossee, St. Cloud, Harmony, Cocoa, Cocoa Beach, Rockledge, Merritt Island, Rockledge, Satellite Beach, Indian Beach Harbor, Melbourne, Palm Bay, Malabar, Celebration, Davenport, Reunion, Polk City, Haines City, Winter Haven, Auburndale, Bartow, Lakeland.

We have installed above ground pools made by every manufacturer including:

Doughboy, Wil-Bar, Swim-n-Play, Atlantic, Sharkline, Asahi, Seaspray, Garden Leisure, Celebration, Outback, Embassy, Intex, Muskin, Atlantis, Trevi, Vogue, Aqua Leader, Alberca and Chois, Outdoor Leisure, Swim N Fun, Mighty Sun, Trendium, Lomart, GSM, Bestway, Oceana, Highland Pools, McEwen, Ester Williams, Johnny Wiesmuller

We have also installed and re-lined most above ground pool models including:

Esprit, Aegean, Belize, Celebration, Endeavor STR, Escalade STR, Heritage, Matrix, Morada, Navigator, Oasis, Oceanic, Opera, Reprieve, Summerfield RTR, Venture, Yorkshire, Paragon, Westminster, Proseries, Tahitian, Bermuda, Samoan, Atmosphere, Rio, Costa Del Sol, Revelation, Capri, Solstice, Bora, Madeira, Bravo, Nassau, Neptune, Mirage, Solano, Elixir, Arcadia, Allure, Meadows, Contempra, Oxford, Deluxe 8000, Splasher, Valdez, Eden, Cascade, Sunray, Pretium, Ohana, Magnus, Azor, Excursion, Vision, Floridian, New Yorker, Mission, Everest, Rushmore, Zanzibar, Copper Canyon, Tuscany, Desert Spring, Whispering Wind, Palm Shore, Blue Lagoon, Presto, Martinique, Riviera, Galaxy, Nautilus, Quantum, Aquarian 200, Aquarian 400, Luau, Turtle Bay, Distinction LX, Impress, Paris, Montego, Alpha, Empire, Elegance, Abbey, Magnolia, Klondike, Elysium, Cambridge, Bahamas, Caribbean, Montego, Mediterranean, Caspian, Chateau, Impressions, The Quest, The Islander, The Generation, Horizon, Zenith Antico Estate, Impulse Equator, Freedom, Aqualine, Barrier Reef, Brisbane, Genesis, Southport GLX, Sapphire, Saratoga, Silver Lake, Concord, Esprit GLX, J1000, Liberty, Sierra, Malibu, Urbania, Vantage, Imperial, J2000, J6000, J8000, Oyster Bay, Prestige, Regatta, Seaside, Bestway, Ponderosa GLX, Cameo, Signature RTL, Hampton, Saltwater 5000, Saltwater 8000, Intrepid, Paragon, Oxford, Yukon, Fiesta, Diamond Star, Sandstone, Infinity, Vero Beach, Hydrium Titan, Aqua Mate, Galveston, Barbados, Bella, San Marino, Concord, Belair Resin, Hawthorne, Montessa, Verona, Platinum State, Stony Hill, Rolling Rapids, Taupe Coprtina, Taupe Monet, Forest Mist, Aruba, Harmony, Florence, Caledonia, Belmore, Serenity, Inspriration, Lancaster, Hamilton, Castlebay, Stonehaven, Turnberry Elite, Northbay Elite, The Century, The Blues, The Sentinelle,