DC Pools & Spas
Pool Company in Clinton, MS
Latham fiberglass pools for Clinton, excavated, set and finished by our own crew.
In the yard
Pool Builders Serving Clinton, MS
DC Pools & Spas is the pool division of Dickerson Contracting, and unlike our roofing side the pool crew is ours. We install genuine Latham fiberglass pools start to finish: excavation, base prep, crane set, plumbing and deck.
On a lot of pool jobs the dig, the shell set and the concrete are three different subcontractors with three different standards. Here it is one crew and one point of contact from the first dig to the day you swim.
Most of our work still comes from word of mouth. The same standard on every pool install.
Credentials
Licensed through the Mississippi State Board of Contractors, license 25203-MC. BBB accredited with an A+ rating since 2018. Home Builders Association and Rankin County Chamber members.
In the field
Clinton Measures to the Rim, and From Easements
Clinton's zoning ordinance writes its pool rule in a way that catches people out, and it is worth reading carefully before you fall in love with a shape.
In R-1 and R-2 the ordinance requires a minimum of ten feet between all property lines or recorded easements and the rim of the swimming pool. In Residential Estate that becomes twenty feet. The pool must sit behind the front line of the house, and it must be enclosed by a structure or fencing at least four feet high with a self-latching gate.
Two words in that rule do the real work. The measurement runs to the rim, not the water, the coping or the deck, which is a tighter constraint than most people assume. And it runs from recorded easements as well as property lines, so a utility or drainage easement crossing the back of your lot can pull the buildable envelope in by several feet before the boundary ever matters. We pull your plat and work the envelope out on the site visit, not after the dig.
On the job
How a Pool Goes In for Clinton Homeowners
Photographs from a DC Pools and Spas install.
The Fence Rule About Ditches and Swales
The ordinance is unusually direct on this point. No fence shall cross any drainage easement, ditch or swale that would impede the flow of water. Chain link is prohibited in front yards in any district.
On a Clinton lot with a swale running along the back, that sentence decides where your barrier can physically go, which in turn decides how much of the yard ends up inside the fence with the pool. It is a design question, and it is much cheaper to solve on paper than after the concrete is down.
Worth saying plainly: Clinton adopted the 2006 codes, which predate the international pool and spa code by nine years, so there is no ISPSC here. The zoning ordinance is what sets your setbacks and fencing, and we confirm anything beyond it with Community Development rather than quoting a national standard that may not apply.
The Ground Here Is Better Than Its Reputation
Everyone in this metro has heard that you cannot trust the ground. In Clinton that is largely not the case, and it is good news for a pool.
USDA soil survey data puts roughly 53 percent of the city on Loring soils, which are loess, with low shrink-swell right through the profile. Counting the Oaklimeter, Riedtown, Providence and Grenada soils alongside them, about 95 percent of Clinton is low shrink-swell loess and floodplain silt. That is stable ground for an excavation and a deck.
The eastern edge of the city, toward the Jackson line, is the exception. There the Siwell and Byram soils put horizons running 60 percent clay under a couple of feet of ordinary topsoil, in the highest shrink-swell class the survey records. A pool over there is a different engineering conversation, and we check your address rather than apply one answer to the whole town.
Access and What Comes Out of the Hole
The excavator needs a route in, the crane needs reach and a level set-up pad, and several tons of spoil has to leave or be regraded. On an established 1970s lot with mature trees and a tight side yard, that logistics question often decides where the pool can go before the setback rule does.
We measure it with a tape on the site visit rather than discovering it with a crane on the clock.
Pool Services in Clinton
Fiberglass Pool Installation in Clinton or Inground Pools in Clinton. Financing runs through Lyon Financial. We also install in Jackson, Ridgeland, Pearl.
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Common questions
How far from the property line does a Clinton pool have to sit?
Ten feet in R-1 and R-2, twenty feet in Residential Estate, and the measurement runs to the rim of the pool rather than the deck or water. It also runs from recorded easements, not just property lines.
What fence does Clinton require?
At least four feet high with a self-latching gate, enclosing the pool. Chain link is prohibited in front yards in any district, and no fence may cross a drainage easement, ditch or swale in a way that impedes the flow of water.
Is my Clinton yard on expansive clay?
Most likely not. Roughly 95 percent of the city is low shrink-swell loess and floodplain silt. The eastern edge toward Jackson carries the expansive soils, and we check your specific address.
Does the international pool code apply in Clinton?
No. Clinton adopted the 2006 code family, which predates that code by nine years. Your setbacks and fencing come from the city zoning ordinance, and we confirm anything further with Community Development.
Don't know where to start?
Call the office, or tell us about the job online and get one written quote.