Designed in 3D. Built on a published schedule. Backed by a written warranty.
Tell us about your yard. We'll set up your in-home visit.
Illustrative - pool construction, not an Apex job site.
Apex is new, but the work isn't. Our crew has dug, plumbed, shot, tiled, and plastered pools across the Valley for other builders for years. Apex is ours - which means you get the attention of a small company instead of a spot in a forty-pool queue.
Owner on every job site
Not a salesperson who disappears after the deposit.
A direct line to your builder
You text the person actually running your build.
A published schedule
Every date in writing, so you can hold us to it.
Faster start dates
No volume backlog to wait behind before we break ground.
Every pool starts as a 3D rendering you walk through and approve before anything is committed. Here's the range of what we design and dig across the Valley.
Ground-up gunite pools designed around your yard and how you plan to use it - a shallow play pool for the kids, a geometric lap pool along a block wall, or a freeform shape that follows the desert. Every build starts as a 3D rendering you approve before we quote.
A raised spa that spills over into the pool gives you a hot soak in winter and a cooling feature all summer. We tie the spa into the same equipment pad and automation, so one tap on your phone warms it up before you get home.
A spool - part spa, part pool - is built for smaller Valley lots and tighter side yards where a full-size pool will not fit. Add jets and a heater and it works year-round: a plunge on a 110° afternoon, a warm soak on a January night.
Older Valley pools reach a point where the plaster is failing and the tile is dated. We replaster or re-pebble the interior, replace waterline tile and coping, resurface the deck, and modernize the equipment so an aging pool runs and looks new again.
Bringing an older pool back to life instead? See pool remodels & resurfacing.
From the older lots of central Phoenix to the big backyards of Queen Creek, we design and build all over the Valley. Start with your city.
Cities in color have their own page. Don't see yours? We likely still serve it - give us a call.
The questions every Valley homeowner asks us - answered plainly.
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).
If your neighborhood has an HOA, we prepare the full submittal package (the site plan, elevations, and any materials the board asks for) and manage the review for you. In master-planned communities around Gilbert, Queen Creek, and San Tan Valley, HOA approval usually takes about 2 to 4 weeks. We start that submittal as early as possible because it runs in parallel with engineering, so it rarely adds to the total timeline if we begin on day one.
Caliche is a hard, cemented layer of desert soil, a calcium carbonate that has bonded the dirt into something close to concrete. It is a documented Sonoran Desert soil, common across the Valley and especially the East Valley, and when an excavator hits a thick seam it can slow dig day from a couple of days to the better part of a week. We assess the likelihood at the design visit and price it honestly up front, so a hard dig does not become a surprise change order later.
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.
Book a free in-home 3D design consultation. We measure the yard, listen to how you want to use it, and hand you a 3D concept in about a week - no obligation, no pressure.
