DC Pools & Spas
Pool Company in Jackson, MS
Latham fiberglass pools for Jackson, excavated, set and finished by our own crew.
In the yard
Pool Builders Serving Jackson, MS
DC Pools & Spas is the pool side of Dickerson Contracting, an authorized Latham builder based in Flowood. We install Latham fiberglass inground pools, spas and tanning ledges, and our own crew handles the dig, the shell set, the plumbing, the deck and the start-up.
That matters in Jackson because the ground and the lot lines here both ask questions that a hand-off between subcontractors tends to answer badly. One crew carries the job from the first site visit to the day the system runs.
Dickerson Contracting is licensed through the Mississippi State Board of Contractors, number 25203-MC, and is 5 star rated across more than 100 Google reviews.
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
Where a Pool Can Sit on a Jackson Lot
Jackson's zoning ordinance lists a swimming pool among the accessory uses and structures allowed on a lot with a house, alongside decks, patios and storage buildings, each subject to the regulations of the zoning district the property sits in.
In the R-1 single-family district, a detached accessory structure has to sit at least sixty feet back from the front lot line and five feet from the side and rear lot lines. On a corner lot it goes on the corner opposite the street. House and accessory structures together may cover no more than half the lot. In R-2 the front line drops to fifty feet.
Sixty feet from the front lot line is the line to measure first. On a shallow lot the usable ground behind the house can be narrower than it looks from the patio, and the pool, the deck and the equipment pad all have to fit inside it. We measure it on the site visit and confirm with the city how the lines apply to your plan before anything is drawn in final.
On the job
How a Pool Goes In for Jackson Homeowners
Photographs from a DC Pools and Spas install.
Ten Feet Between Structures, and a Permit for the Fence
A second rule catches owners who are adding a pool to a yard that already has things in it. The ordinance says no separate accessory structure may be erected within ten feet of any other structure, and no accessory structure may go in a required front or side yard. A storage building, a detached garage or a pool house already on the lot shapes where a new pool and its equipment can go.
How the city applies that to a shell, a deck and an equipment pad is a question we put to the city with your plan in hand. We do not guess at it on a website.
Fencing has rules of its own. The city states that a permit is required for fences. Fences of eight feet or less may stand in any required yard except the front, and a front-yard fence in a residential district stays at four feet unless the part above that is less than half opaque. Barrier and gate requirements for the pool itself are a building-code question, and we confirm them with the Building Permits Division for your address rather than quote a national figure.
Clay at the Depth of the Dig
The state geologists' study of Yazoo clay names this city directly: foundation and structural damage in the belt, "especially in the Jackson area", is caused primarily by the expansive nature of the clay. It swells when wet and shrinks when dry, and MDEQ describes the forces involved as capable of lifting tons of concrete.
Not every Jackson yard is the same, though. USDA soil survey data puts Loring loess, which barely moves, under roughly a fifth of the city. It puts Siwell and Byram soils under close to another fifth, and those carry layers running about sixty percent clay, in the highest shrink-swell class the survey records, starting roughly three feet down on Siwell and about five and a half on Byram.
That is the depth a pool excavation reaches. So we look your address up in the soil survey before the site visit, and the base and the deck get planned around what is actually under the yard.
Access, Spoil and the Equipment Pad
Before the shell comes the logistics. The excavator needs a route into the back yard, the crane needs reach and a firm set-up spot, and the spoil from the dig has to be hauled off or regraded. On an established Jackson lot with mature trees and a narrow drive, that can settle the location before the setback lines do.
The equipment pad needs a home as well, and it sits on the same lot as everything else. We place it on the plan at the start rather than finding a corner for it at the end.
Pool Services in Jackson
Fiberglass Pool Installation in Jackson or Inground Pools in Jackson. Financing runs through Lyon Financial. We also install in Pearl, Flowood, Clinton.
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Common questions
How far from the front lot line does a pool have to be in Jackson?
In R-1 the ordinance sets detached accessory structures at least sixty feet from the front lot line and five feet from the side and rear lines, and it lists a swimming pool among accessory uses and structures. R-2 uses fifty feet. We confirm how the city applies those lines to your plan.
Do I need a permit for the pool fence?
Yes. The city states that a permit is required for fences. Fences up to eight feet may stand in any required yard except the front, and front-yard fences in residential districts are held to four feet unless the upper part is mostly open.
Is my Jackson yard on expansive clay?
It depends on the address. Soil survey data shows low shrink-swell loess across part of the city and heavy clay layers at pool depth under close to a fifth of it. We look up your lot before the site visit.
Who actually builds the pool?
Our own crew. DC Pools & Spas digs, sets the Latham shell, plumbs it, pours the deck and starts the system up. We are an authorized Latham builder based in Flowood.
Don't know where to start?
Call the office, or tell us about the job online and get one written quote.