DC Pools & Spas
Inground Pools in Ridgeland, MS
Inground Pools for Ridgeland homeowners, installed start to finish by our own crew.
In the yard
Inground Pools in Ridgeland, 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 Ridgeland it is also a permitted, licensed, bonded and inspected construction project, which is worth knowing at the start rather than the middle.
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.
The Paperwork, and Why the Fence Is Part of It
Your builder needs a City of Ridgeland contractor license with a $5,000 bond in force before a permit can issue, and swimming pools are a named trade on the city bond form. Construction documents go in as multiple scaled sets.
Then the barrier. Ridgeland requires a six foot enclosure, having amended the model pool code from 48 inches up to 72, and its zoning ordinance asks for six feet in every residential district. Front yard fences, though, are capped at four feet and need Architectural Review Board approval first.
Those two rules have to be resolved on paper before anyone digs, particularly on a corner lot. We would rather spend that hour early than redesign a fence line around a finished pool.
On the job
Ridgeland 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 in ground that holds perched water through the winter is the step that decides whether you think about the structure again.
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, the 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
Ridgeland sits on a loess ridge, and in most of the city a dig runs through silt loam with low shrink-swell. On the Byram and Siwell soils it is different: roughly 60 percent clay at three and a half to six feet, rated very high for shrink-swell, sometimes with water perched above it.
That changes how spoil is handled, how the base is built and how drainage is designed. The city itself takes this ground seriously enough that its building ordinance carries its own foundation requirements, with a soils engineering report as the alternative to the prescribed beam and reinforcement schedule.
It is also the honest reason we will not price a pool from a satellite image.
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.
You get one written, itemized quote covering whatever is in scope, and financing is available through Lyon Financial.
Nearby
Also see Ridgeland pools or statewide inground pools.
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Common questions
What does Ridgeland require before the dig?
A permit, with construction documents in scaled sets, from a contractor holding a city license and a $5,000 bond. Swimming pools are a named trade on the city bond form.
How tall does the pool fence have to be?
Six feet. Ridgeland amended the model pool code from 48 inches to 72, and its zoning ordinance requires a six foot enclosure. Front yard fences are separately capped at four feet and need Architectural Review Board approval.
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. Under a mature Ridgeland canopy that is a real question, so we measure it.
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.