A Backyard Oasis

Let’s face it; beautiful swimming pools in Cape Coral, FL are the ultimate in summer living.  With Florida being hot and moist most of the year, a backyard pool is such a convenient way to cool down for the whole family.  Pools have become synonymous with luxury and have added another level of luxurious living to hotels, resorts, and beautiful homes. In ground pools are not only popular all over the world, they are the most expensive style too. The sky is the limit when people are coming up with designs, options, shapes, and accompanying decks, vegetation, and terraces to go with an in ground pool.  In ground pools are not for people who are cash bound, as the simplest pool will run you upwards of $30,000.

Swimming pools in Cape Coral, FL are usually one of four different types.  The most popular pool is the gunite style.  This type of pool is installing by creating a steel cage inside the hole that has been dug.  The steel poles are called rebar rods and these are connected all around the inside of the hole. This steel framework is then sprayed with heavy gunite, which is a mixture of cement, sand, and water, which covers the steel cage.  The gunite is smoothed down and then is left to cure for a week.  After that is cured, the pool is then plastered to give it a smooth finish.  These types of pools can be designed in any shape and size and are they last the longest.  Poured concrete pools are the next pool type.  Once the hole for the pool is dug, a wooden mold is placed into the pool and filled with concrete.  Once the concrete is cured, the wooden mold is removed.  These kinds of pools were the most popular before the gunite technology came along.  Their big drawback is that the installation is time-consuming and difficult.

Swimming pools in Cape Coral, FL are also made of fiberglass.  These pools are constructed off site and then brought over to your house and installed into a hole that has been dug for it.  These kinds of pools do not need the same kind of maintenance that the others do; they do not need repainting and their composition makes them less prone to bacteria and algae problems.  The last kind of pool is the vinyl-lined, in ground pool.  This one is the least expensive of the four.  A hole is dug, a wall is erected around the edge and the vinyl pool is inserted.  These pools need a new liner every ten years.