DC Pools & Spas
Inground Pools in Flowood, MS
Inground Pools for Flowood homeowners, installed start to finish by our own crew.
In the yard
Inground Pools in Flowood, 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 Flowood it is also a project with a flood map attached, which is the part most people do not expect.
We set expectations up front and we do not over-promise. You approve every dollar before it becomes a bill.
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.
The Paperwork Starts With a Flood Zone
The city residential building permit application asks for the flood zone of the work site, and it carries its own checkbox for pools. Development inside a special flood hazard area requires a separate floodplain development permit and a minimum of three inspections.
Roughly 47 percent of Flowood land area sits in the 1 percent annual chance floodplain, so this is not a rare edge case here. We establish the flood zone for your address at the site visit and design around it, rather than finding out at the permit counter.
The barrier requirement we confirm with the building department rather than quoting from a website, because Flowood adopted the 2021 residential code without the separate pool and spa code. What we can tell you plainly is that the Mississippi pool safety act does not govern a private backyard pool; it covers association, rental and club pools.
On the job
Flowood 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 Comes Out of the Hole Here
Across most of Flowood a dig runs through river-terrace silt loam. On the east and northeast side, toward Old Fannin and Grants Ferry, it goes through about a foot of silt loam and into clay at 48 to 50 percent, which changes how spoil is handled and how the base is built.
Several tons of material has to leave or be regraded either way. On an established lot with mature trees and a tight side yard, that logistics question is often what decides where the pool can actually 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 Flowood lot. Once a large area of lawn becomes deck, water that used to soak in has to go somewhere, and 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 Flowood pools or statewide inground pools.
More pool work in Flowood
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Common questions
What paperwork does a Flowood pool need?
A city building permit, with the flood zone of the site stated on the application, and a separate floodplain development permit if the work is in a special flood hazard area. We handle it as part of the build.
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. We measure it rather than assume it.
Will the flood zone stop me having a pool?
Usually not, but it shapes the design and the permitting. Where the pool sits, where the equipment pad goes and how the deck drains all get decided with the flood map in front of us.
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.