Custom pools, spas & service · Perch Lake & the kettle towns · Since 2013
The lake has competition.
Floatline builds pools for people who moved here for the water and then kept driving into town for a swim. Custom gunite, spas that run in January, and a service route that reads the lake’s mood in every test jar — designed, built and kept by the same eleven people.
The shop
One shop, eleven people, no phone tree
The designer who walks your yard is on the crew that shoots the shell, and the technician who balances the water in June watched it fill in May. Nothing about a Floatline pool is handed off to a subcontractor you never met — which is also why we build eleven pools a year and not forty.
Services
Three things, done slowly
01
Custom gunite pools
Freeform or geometric, sized to the yard and the family rather than the catalogue. Steel on chairs, shotcrete cured a full 28 days, a hydraulic loop that turns the gallons in six hours, and finishes chosen from samples we keep in the shop, not from a webpage.
02
Spas & cold plunges
Spas that hold 104 degrees through a kettle-town January — gas or heat-pump, insulated covers, jets sized to the people sitting in them. The cold plunge beside them is the same shell, run the other direction, and it is the most-used square metre we build.
03
The service route
Twenty-six pools on a Tuesday-to-Friday circuit, every visit logged to your account — readings, chemical additions, the state of the cover. The route is capped at twenty-six because the twenty-seventh would make the first one worse.
The count
The shop, in figures
How it goes
Coffee to first swim
Every Floatline build runs the same relaxed, unskippable sequence. Slow is a method here, not a delay.
Week 0
Coffee at the shop
Bring the survey and a phone full of pool photographs. We talk gallons, seasons and who is actually getting in — the shape comes last, and it comes from the conversation, not the other way around.
Week 1
The yard walk
Access, setbacks, spoils, and where the equipment will live. The fixed quote follows inside the week and does not move afterward.
Weeks 2–9
The quiet build
Dig, steel, shot, cure — 28 days, hosed and covered — then tile, coping, pad. The crew chief photographs every buried stage for the as-built folder before it disappears.
Week 10
Fill, balance, handover
First balance logged, controller paired to your phone, cover measured. The route visit that keeps it this way starts the following Tuesday.
Recent builds
Around the lake
Six builds from the last two seasons, all within a township of the shop. The captions name the package; the water names the crew.
Eleven people built our pool and all eleven knew our names. The designer shot the shell, the balancer watched it fill, and when the cover tore in a February wind the crew chief was here that afternoon with a patch and a story about his own.
Before coffee
Fair questions
The four we hear most at the counter. Anything else, the shop line runs seven to five and the coffee is free either way.
Why only eleven pools a year?
Because the same eleven people design, build and maintain them, and quality has a payroll ceiling. A fortieth pool would mean a subcontracted shotcrete crew and a route of sixty — both of which are exactly how the corners we are known for not cutting get cut.
Can a spa really run through a kettle-town January?
Yes, with a properly insulated shell, a sealed cover and a heater sized to the coldest week rather than the mildest. Ours held 104 degrees through last winter’s snap on the gas line it was designed for — the running cost is printed in the quote, month by month.
What does the route cost?
$132 a month, chlorine or salt, visits logged to your account. It is capped at twenty-six pools so the Tuesdays stay unhurried; when it is full, there is a short list, and we say so rather than squeeze.
Do you remodel pools you did not build?
Gladly — re-plaster, re-tile, coping, equipment. The 14-year-old Heron Cove pool in the gallery was another company’s; the folder we wrote for it is better than the one they never gave the owners.
Coffee at the shop any weekday, yard walks on Saturdays · (555) 013-9762 · hello@floatlinepools.example
The shop counter
Start with the coffee
Tell us the yard and the swimmers. If a pool is the wrong answer for your lot we will say so over the coffee and send you to the lake with our compliments — it has happened four times, and two of those families are on the service route anyway.