Down By The River
Deep loamy and clayey soils along the Arkansas and the Poteau. That is generally good ground to dig, and on the flatter lots the thing worth planning early is where the water goes after a hard rain.
Sebastian County, Arkansas
Building a Pool in Fort Smith, Arkansas
We live here too, so we already know what your side of town does to a pool plan.
Fort Smith Is Really Several Different Yards
Fort Smith is the biggest city in the River Valley and it does not have one kind of backyard. Down near the water the ground is deep loamy and clayey soil that the Arkansas and the Poteau laid down over a very long time. Up in Fianna Hills you are on a slope, and the question stops being dirt and starts being how we hold the grade. Out at Chaffee Crossing and Rye Hill the newer additions tend to sit on wider, flatter lots, which opens up shapes that a tight older lot closer to town will not take.
None of that decides whether you can have a pool. It decides how we get it in and what it takes to do it right, which is worth talking about before anybody draws anything.
Three Parts Of Town, Three Different Conversations
We build in all of them. They just do not start from the same place.
The Hills On The South Side
Fianna Hills and the ground around it are sloped. A pool on a slope usually needs retaining and a real plan for drainage, and that work belongs in the number from the first conversation instead of showing up later.
Chaffee Crossing And Rye Hill
Newer additions with room to work. A bigger lot means equipment gets in without taking a fence apart, and it means more freedom in the shape and in where the concrete goes.
Where It Goes Matters As Much As What It Is
The best spot for a pool is usually not the middle of the yard. It is wherever you can see it from the kitchen window, wherever the afternoon sun lands, and wherever the concrete has somewhere to go. We would rather stand in your yard and work that out with you than pick a rectangle off a plan.
Sun
Where the light actually falls in July, which is not always where people assume it does.
Sightlines
Being able to see the water from inside the house is the single thing parents tell us they are glad they thought about.
Access
How we get equipment in, and what has to come apart to make that happen.
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 Fort Smith Ask Us
Where Else We Build
We also build across Northwest Arkansas, Central Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma.
Let's Talk About Your Fort Smith Yard
Tell us what you are thinking, and we will come look at the yard.