DC Pools & Spas
Inground Pools in Clinton, MS
Inground Pools for Clinton homeowners, installed start to finish by our own crew.
In the yard
Inground Pools in Clinton, MS
An inground pool is a construction project in your backyard, not a delivery. Excavators, a crane, several tons of spoil, plumbing, electrical and a concrete pour all happen in sequence in a space that was lawn a fortnight ago.
In Clinton the first constraint is usually not the budget or the shape. It is the plat.
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.
Start With the Easements, Not the Lot Line
Clinton requires a minimum of ten feet in R-1 and R-2, and twenty feet in Residential Estate, between the rim of the pool and all property lines or recorded easements. The pool has to sit behind the front line of the house.
The easement half of that sentence is what moves pools. A utility or drainage easement running across the back of a lot is invisible standing in the yard and absolute on paper, and it pushes the buildable envelope in from a line most owners have never looked at. The fence rule compounds it: no fence may cross a drainage easement, ditch or swale in a way that impedes the flow of water.
So on a Clinton build we start with your plat and mark the real envelope before talking about shapes. It is the cheapest hour of the whole project.
On the job
Clinton Inground Pool Projects, Start to Finish
Photographs from a DC Pools and Spas install.
Dig, Base, Set, Backfill, Deck
The excavation is cut to the shell. Then the base is prepared and compacted, which is the least glamorous and most consequential step in the build: a shell set on a base that settles will tell you about it for twenty years.
The crane sets the shell in a single day. After that comes plumbing, backfill in lifts so the shell stays supported, equipment, electrical and finally the deck pour. Water goes in, chemistry gets started, and we run the system with you before handing it over.
Weather moves this schedule and anybody who says otherwise has not built in Mississippi. What we commit to is telling you when it moves and why.
What the Dig Goes Through Here
Across most of Clinton an excavation runs through loess. Loring, Oaklimeter, Riedtown, Providence and Grenada soils account for roughly 95 percent of the city and carry low shrink-swell right through the profile, which makes for straightforward digging and a stable base.
On the eastern edge toward Jackson it changes. The Siwell soils put about two and a half feet of ordinary topsoil over horizons running 42 to 60 percent clay, with very low permeability at depth. That affects how spoil is handled, how the base is built and how water behaves around the finished pool.
Several tons of material has to leave or be regraded either way. On an established lot with mature trees and a narrow side yard, that is frequently what decides where the pool can physically go.
Plan the Surround Before the Ground Closes
Even if the outdoor kitchen, the pergola or the fire feature is a later phase, running conduit, gas and drainage while the ground is open costs a fraction of retro-fitting through a finished deck.
Drainage deserves particular thought on a lot with a swale on it, since the fence cannot cross it and the new deck will change where water goes. We would rather solve that in the plan than with a pump in year two.
You get one written, itemized quote covering whatever is in scope, and financing is available through Lyon Financial.
Nearby
Also see Clinton pools or statewide inground pools.
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Common questions
What decides where my pool can go in Clinton?
Usually the recorded easements rather than the property line. The setback runs ten feet in R-1 and R-2, twenty in Residential Estate, measured to the rim of the pool, from easements as well as boundaries.
Can you get equipment into my backyard?
That is the first thing we check. The excavator needs a route, the crane needs reach and a pad, and the spoil needs somewhere to go. On a 1970s lot with mature trees that is often the deciding factor.
What will the dig go through?
Across most of Clinton, loess with low shrink-swell, which digs straightforwardly and makes a stable base. On the eastern edge toward Jackson expect clay at depth, which changes how the base is built and how water behaves.
Should I plan the deck and kitchen now or later?
Plan them now even if you build them later. Running conduit, gas and drainage while the ground is open costs a fraction of retro-fitting through a finished deck.
Don't know where to start?
Call the office, or tell us about the job online and get one written quote.