Service areas
Where We Build, Around the Monterey Bay
We are based in Salinas and work the ring of valleys and coastline around Monterey Bay. Thirteen of these places have a page of their own, because building a pool in them is genuinely different.
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- Based in Salinas, working the Monterey Bay
- Monday to Saturday, 8am to 5pm
One bay, four very different climates
The distance from Pacific Grove to Hollister is under fifty miles, and the pools we build at either end have almost nothing in common.
On the immediate coast — Monterey, Pacific Grove, Carmel, Santa Cruz — the marine layer caps summer temperatures and the afternoon breeze drives evaporation. A pool there is designed around heat retention, and a cover is the most valuable item on the equipment list rather than an accessory.
Fifteen minutes inland, in Carmel Valley or Salinas, the fog stops and the arithmetic inverts. The sun does real work, the season is long, and the money that would have gone into compensating for the weather goes into the pool instead.
Over the ranges in Hollister and Gilroy it is inland California proper: hot, dry summers, a long season, and hard source water that shapes which interior finish is worth paying for. And around the north of the bay, in Watsonville and the Pajaro Valley, groundwater sits close enough to the surface to matter to an excavation and to anyone thinking about draining a pool.
None of that is marketing. It is the reason a single template city page is useless and each of these places needs its own answer.
Monterey County
Home ground. The shop is in Salinas, and the trucks run the Peninsula, the Carmel Valley, the Salinas Valley and south county daily.
We also build and service pools in 22 more Monterey County communities:
- Del Monte Forest
- Del Rey Oaks
- Sand City
- Big Sur
- Spreckels
- Prunedale
- Castroville
- Moss Landing
- Las Lomas
- Royal Oaks
- Aromas
- Pajaro
- Chualar
- Gonzales
- Soledad
- Greenfield
- King City
- San Lucas
- San Ardo
- Lockwood
- Jolon
- Bradley
Santa Cruz County
North around the bay: the Santa Cruz coast, the Aptos hills and the Pajaro Valley, where high groundwater and coastal review change how a pool is engineered.
We also build and service pools in 7 more Santa Cruz County communities:
- Capitola
- Soquel
- Rio del Mar
- La Selva Beach
- Corralitos
- Freedom
- Scotts Valley
San Benito County
East over the Gabilans. Hot inland summers, hard water and a long swim season make Hollister a different design problem from the coast.
We also build and service pools in 2 more San Benito County communities:
- San Juan Bautista
- Tres Pinos
South Santa Clara County
Gilroy, San Martin and Morgan Hill, at the top of the same inland valley as Hollister.
We also build and service pools in 2 more South Santa Clara communities:
- San Martin
- Morgan Hill
What we do, everywhere we work
Free estimate
Tell us where the site is
Estimates are free wherever we work. Send the address and a couple of photographs of the yard, and we will tell you what is realistic on that ground.