Pool design & construction · Cassin Bluff & the sound towns · Est. 2009
A pool is a promise you make to every summer you have left.
The shop
The yard is the drawing board
A halyard is the line that hauls a sail — the rope nobody admires until the wind arrives. We build pools the same way: the excavation, the steel, the hydraulics and the conduits are decided before a single waterline tile is chosen, because a pool that is beautiful for three Julys and expensive for thirty is not a pool, it is a lien with a ladder in it.
Every Halyard build starts below the water line: a soils boring on the bluff side, a hydraulic loop sized to turn the whole pool over in six hours, and an equipment pad placed where a technician can actually reach it. What you see afterward — the plaster, the tile, the coping — rides on that hidden work.
Services & rates
The rates, before the romance
Bluff-town prices from last season’s book. The fixed number comes out of the site walk, which costs nothing but an hour.
Halyard rate card — 2026 season
Gunite pool, engineeredfrom $104,000
soils boring · steel schedule · 28-day cure · plaster & waterline tile
Vinyl pool packagefrom $61,500
panel walls · measured liner · pump, filter & pad · first balance
Spa & cold plungefrom $23,900
seven seats · gas or heat-pump · insulated cover & lift
Full remodelfrom $28,400
new plaster or liner · re-tile · coping · equipment swap
Hydraulic retrofitfrom $6,800
variable-speed pump · re-plumbed returns · six-hour turnover
Weekly service route$132 / month
test & balance · brush · baskets · logged readings
The ledger
The yard, in figures
The build
From soils boring to first swim
Week 1
The walk and the boring
We pace the yard, read the setbacks, and pull a soils sample on the bluff side. Access, spoils removal and the utility corridor are decided here — the three things that move a pool budget more than tile ever will.
Weeks 2–3
The drawing and the hydraulics
A scaled plan with the turnover loop, return geometry and equipment pad placement, signed by you before a shovel arrives. The permit packet goes in the same week.
Week 4
Dig, steel, shot
One machine, one truck cycle, a boarded yard overnight. Steel on chairs, then shotcrete — and then the shell sits a full 28 days, hosed and covered, because the cure is the difference between a forty-year shell and a warranty dispute.
Weeks 5–7
Tile, deck, equipment
Waterline tile set dead level, coping laid, the pad piped and wired, the controller commissioned dry. The yard is raked before the deck pour, not after.
Week 8
Fill and balance
Hose on, filter on, first balance logged. The service route starts the same week if you want it, and the as-built folder — drawings, hydraulic schematic, warranty — lands in your inbox before the water is warm.
2024 — 2026 builds
Water we stand behind
Six pools from the last two seasons, photographed the week of first fill — hydraulics balanced, nothing styled. Most owners will let you walk the deck before you sign anything.
They talked us down from the bigger pool and into the better one — better shell, better hydraulics, a heat pump sized to April rather than August. Two winters, one storm, and the water has been exactly the colour of the brochure every day since.
Why does the cure take a full 28 days?
Shotcrete reaches most of its strength in the first week and the rest over a month. Plastering a green shell is how finishes craze and warranties void — so the shell is hosed daily and covered, and the calendar wins over the weather, every build, including the ones in a hurry.
What does the hydraulic retrofit actually fix?
Most older pools push water through undersized pipe with an oversized pump — expensive to run and too slow to filter. We re-plumb the returns for a six-hour turnover on a variable-speed pump, and the running cost typically drops by half before the first month closes.
Do you winterize what you build?
Yes — blow-out, plug and cover in the autumn, restart and rebalance in the spring, $340 a visit, on the route calendar before the first frost. The as-built folder tells the crew exactly where every line runs, because we drew it.
How loud is the equipment?
The pad is placed at design, not wherever the plumber preferred — set away from bedrooms on vibration isolators, with the filter sized so the pump runs its six hours on the slow, quiet, overnight tariff.
The as-built folder
Every Halyard build closes with a folder: the soils report, the steel schedule, the hydraulic schematic, the warranty, and the week the shell was shot. Thirty years from now a stranger with a wrench will know exactly what is under your deck — and so will you.
Free site walk and soils read anywhere on the bluffs, most within the week · (555) 016-8237 · build@halyardpoolworks.example
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Walk the yard with us
Send the address and roughly when you want to be swimming. The site walk is free, the scaled drawing and fixed quote follow inside ten days, and nobody from this office will ever phone you about a “last slot this season”. build@halyardpoolworks.example