Custom Pool Builder in Scottsdale, AZ

Plan on 3 to 6 months from signed contract to your first swim, with roughly 8 to 16 weeks of active construction once we break ground. The wildcard is almost always permits and HOA approval, which can take anywhere from a few weeks to a couple of months depending on the city and your community. We publish the schedule up front and start the permit and HOA work early so the paperwork is not what holds you up.

We do. Apex pulls every permit under our own contractor license and schedules the city inspections at each stage: the pre-gunite inspection before we shoot the shell, and the final inspection at the end. You never have to call the city or stand in line at a permit counter. It is one of the things a licensed builder is supposed to handle, and we handle all of it. You can check our license status anytime at the Arizona Registrar of Contractors (roc.az.gov).

In much of Scottsdale the gatekeeper is a design review board, not just a standard HOA. These boards enforce material, color, and finish standards on top of city permitting, and the review can take a few weeks. We prepare the submittal package to that higher standard and manage the process so it runs alongside engineering.

Scottsdale ground is not only caliche - north of the 101, hillside lots can hit decomposed granite and solid rock, which is even slower to excavate. On view lots the slope adds its own challenges. We assess the ground at the design visit and plan a hard dig honestly, up front.

It can. From roughly July through September, monsoon storms can shut down a dig day or a shotcrete day for safety, and a flooded excavation has to be pumped out before we continue. The National Weather Service marks Arizona's monsoon season as June 15 through September 30. We build weather days into the published schedule so a normal monsoon season does not blow up your timeline, and if a storm costs us a day, you see it reflected honestly rather than hidden.

A pool that sits in full Arizona sun can climb into the 90s by August, which stops feeling refreshing. The main fix is a chiller or a reversible heat pump that pulls heat back out of the water, and the same unit can warm the pool in winter. Design choices help too: shade over part of the water, and knowing that darker interior finishes run a few degrees warmer. On a smaller spool, the jets keep water circulating, which also helps it shed heat overnight.

Yes, if you start in time. Because the full timeline runs 3 to 6 months, contracting in early fall through winter puts you on track to swim by spring or early summer. Summer is our busiest stretch, so the earlier you lock in a design and get into the permit queue, the better your odds of hitting a specific deadline. We publish the schedule so you can hold us to the date we give you.