Sandy ground digs easily
The sandier soils out here are deep and drain quickly, which generally makes for straightforward excavation.
Sebastian County, Arkansas
Pool Builder in Barling, Arkansas
Barling is a few minutes east of us, it is flat, and flat is the friendliest ground there is.
Barling Has One Real Advantage, And It Is The Ground
Barling is its own city with its own city hall, and its kids go to Fort Smith schools, which throws people who did not grow up here. For a pool it has something going for it that the rest of the area does not always have. It is flat. Barling sits lower than anywhere else we build regularly, out on the bottomland south of the river.
Flat ground is the friendliest ground to work with. There is no retaining wall in a flat yard and no grade to fight, which means more of what you spend ends up in the pool instead of in the dirt around it.
What Bottomland Soil Means For Your Yard
These are river soils, laid down by the Arkansas over a long time. Both of the common types here are perfectly normal to build in.
Clay holds water
The clay soils drain slowly. That matters for where the water goes after a hard rain far more than it matters for the pool itself, and it is a drainage question we plan for rather than a problem.
Both get looked at first
Which one you have, and how much of each, is something we want to see before we price the job instead of after we start it.
Flat Ground Is An Advantage, And Here Is Why
Providence and Stoneshire at Chaffee Crossing are putting new houses in on this side of town, and new construction on level ground is about as clean as a pool build gets.
Equipment gets in
Machines move straight to the hole without staging, cribbing or working around a slope.
Nothing has to be held back
No retaining wall, no stepped decking and no grade to rebuild once the pool is in.
The money goes to the pool
On a sloped lot a real share of the budget goes into holding the ground still. On a flat one it does not have to.
Two Good Options, Not A Right Answer
Gunite
- Any shape and any depth, drawn around your yard rather than picked off a page
- Built in place, so it can follow a slope, a corner or an odd property line
- A deep end and a diving board are both on the table
- Tile, plaster and aggregate finishes that you choose
Fiberglass
- A finished shell by Imagine Pools, smooth from the day it goes in
- Thirteen models to choose between, with a size that suits most yards
- The shell arrives complete, so the job moves faster once it is on site
- It can be set over the house by crane when a gate will not do it
We build both, so we have no reason to talk you into either one.
What Comes With Every Pool
Every pool we build comes with a variable speed pump, color changing LED lights you can run from your phone, and 4 feet of concrete around the pool, which can typically be broom finished or textured. This season we are also including a salt system, a wireless robotic cleaner, the textured concrete upgrade and chemical start up. Electrical hookup is not included, because state law requires a licensed electrician for that part.
What A Pool Costs Here
Gunite starts at $75,000, and that's the whole job. Fiberglass starts at $69,000. Where it lands depends on the model and the size, and a bigger fiberglass build can run close to a gunite pool the same size.
How Long It Takes
Active construction runs three to six weeks. From the day we break ground to the day you swim is usually ten to sixteen weeks, because permitting, inspections, curing and weather all sit between the working days.
Three to six weeks of building
Ten to sixteen weeks start to finish
Questions People In Barling Ask Us
Where Else We Build
We also build across Northwest Arkansas, Central Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma.
Let's Talk About Your Barling Yard
Tell us what you are thinking, and we will come look at the yard.