Custom Pool Builders in Cave Creek Since 2004

Price comes down to interior and decking materials, the equipment package, and features such as waterfalls, lighting and firepits. Cave Creek adds its own variables. Rock excavation is the big one, since granite and rock shelf sit close to the surface across much of the town and a dig that would be routine elsewhere can take days longer here. Sloping lots may need retaining and erosion control alongside the pool. Neither is a reason to avoid building. Both are reasons to have someone stand on the ground before quoting.

A real figure needs a real look at the property. We walk the lot, assess the rock and the fall of the ground, note what has to stay, then come back with pricing built around your land instead of an average.

Pool projects typically take 8 to 12 weeks once construction begins. Scheduling, scope, permits, inspections, material availability and weather all move that. In Cave Creek the two things most likely to stretch a schedule are rock, which we assess before quoting, and a permit application from a contractor who has not kept their town business license current. Lots needing hillside or wash engineering add design time at the front rather than build time at the back.

Not necessarily, and this trips up more people than anything else on this page. The 85331 postal area does not match the town boundary. A property with a Cave Creek mailing address can actually sit in the Town of Cave Creek, the Town of Carefree, the City of Phoenix, the City of Scottsdale or unincorporated Maricopa County, and each one permits differently. Your mail says nothing about who reviews your pool plans. We check the parcel against the town zoning map before anything is drawn, because filing with the wrong authority wastes weeks.

If your parcel is inside the town, the pool, spa and barrier permit comes from Cave Creek Town Hall on Cave Creek Road. The application checks the contractor's Registrar of Contractors number and classification, a current Arizona state tax number, and a Town of Cave Creek business license. That last one matters more than it sounds, because the town will not issue the permit until the contractor holds it. A builder from down the Valley taking on a one off job here can lose weeks to that alone. Septic permits come from Maricopa County Environmental Services and well permits from the Arizona Department of Water Resources.

Almost certainly not, and Cave Creek is stricter here than its neighbors. Within the protected zones of a residential lot the town does not allow a saguaro to be removed or relocated at all, with only narrow exceptions such as a plant that is already dead or dying. Elsewhere in the Valley the usual answer is salvage and replant. Here the answer is that the saguaro stays and the pool moves. We map the protected plants at the design stage and shape the layout around them, which honestly tends to produce a better looking backyard anyway.

Yes, and it is one of the oldest rules in the town's zoning ordinance. Outdoor lighting has to be fully shielded and cast downward so the bulb itself is not visible from an adjacent street or property. Clear glass fixtures are not permitted unless the glass is frosted to hide the bulb, wall mounted fixtures cannot sit above ten feet, and security lighting has to be motion activated, fully shielded and pointed down. The practical test the town uses is simple: if you can see the bulb through the cover in daylight, it will not pass at night. We specify deck and landscape lighting that complies from the start.

Often, depending where you are. Plenty of Cave Creek properties run on a private well and a septic system rather than town utilities, and both change the plan. Nothing can be built over a septic tank, its leach field or the reserve area, and filling a pool from a domestic well is hard on the pump, so most owners bring the fill in by truck instead. Backwash and drain water must stay well clear of the leach field. We locate all of it before design rather than discovering it with an excavator.