Pool Repair In Vancouver

Around here, a pool is a construction project that happens to hold water. When one gets built, the pool company builds the pool itself, and someone still has to excavate the yard, trench the services, run gas and electrical to the equipment, build the equipment structure, form the coping and deck, and bring the fencing up to pool safety bylaws.

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Types of Pool Work We Do

New Pool Construction

A pool builder's scope typically ends at the coping of the pool. The project doesn't. If you come to us for a pool, we bring the pool builder in under us and run the whole project. If you already have a pool builder, we do everything beyond their scope: excavation and soil removal, trenching for services, gas and electrical to the equipment, the equipment room. And then the part you actually bought the pool for, the backyard around it. Concrete surrounds or pavers, a pergola over the seating area, the landscape that ties it all together. Either way, one contractor is accountable for the whole thing.

Pools on Challenging Sites

On sloped lots the pool is often part of the structure, a shell that doubles as a retaining wall, holding back the hill as well as the water. Just as often, retaining walls have to come first: carving out and holding the flat ground the pool sits on is its own engineered project before the pool exists at all. That's structural and geotechnical work, serious formwork, and drainage that protects both the pool and the slope. We build retaining walls and take on exactly that kind of concrete, up to waterfront sites where equipment and concrete arrive by barge.

Pool Coping & Decks

The edge of the pool and the surface around it, pre-cast, formed concrete, tile, or wood, formed and built to shed water away from the pool structure.

Structural & Shell Repairs

Cracks, spalling, and failed sections in concrete pools, assessed properly, repaired with the right products, engineered where required.

Leak & Plumbing Repairs

Locating and repairing leaks at penetrations, fittings, and lines, with a pool specialist on the diagnosis and our crew on the excavation and reinstatement.

Equipment Rooms, Power & Gas

We build the equipment room the pool builder's systems live in, pumps, filter, heater, and get the power and gas to it, run from your panel and meter by licensed trades we bring and manage.

Pool Safety Compliance

Fencing, self-closing and self-latching gates, and access control brought up to your municipality's pool safety bylaws, usually a permit condition, always worth doing right.

What Does Pool Work Cost in Vancouver?

Pool projects span a wider range than almost anything else we build, from a custom in-ground pool starting around $100,000 to a complete backyard renovation where the pool is one element among decks, structures, and landscape. Here are real numbers from a completed pool repair and a recent pool-construction budget, because pool costs are opaque everywhere else. The repair: a multi-scope project we managed in West Vancouver (pool specialists, electrical, and our own crew) came in around $38,000 (2024). The construction: the work outside the pool itself varies significantly with the site (how far gas and power have to travel from your existing connections, what the excavation runs into, how equipment gets to the backyard) but don't be surprised when it lands at $50,000 or more. In a recent construction budget we prepared for a standard in-ground pool, excavation and soil removal alone ran $11,000 to $13,000, the gas line to the pool equipment $7,000 to $8,000, and the electrical scope exceeded both. That's on top of the pool builder's own price, because a pool builder's scope typically ends at the coping of the pool. Everything beyond it is construction, and it's a larger share of the project than most homeowners have budgeted. Isolated repairs come in well below these; we have a $5,000 minimum project size.

  • Site survey and site plan

  • Permit drawings: pool location and setbacks, construction sections, grading and drainage plan, pool safety and barrier plan, equipment layout

  • Building permit application

  • Structural engineering: the pool contractor brings their own specialty structural engineer for the pool itself, but anything outside the pool, like retaining walls or structures, often needs its own engineer

  • Geotechnical review, where soils or slope demand it

  • Arborist report, where protected trees are near the dig

  • Site protection

  • Pool excavation, including over-excavation for working space and the gravel base

  • Soil removal and disposal

  • Trenching for services: dug, bedded in sand, backfilled

  • Gas line to the pool equipment

  • Electrical: new power run from your panel to the equipment room, rough-in through finish

  • Sealing the service penetrations where they enter the house

  • The pool equipment room itself

  • Pool coping and deck: pre-cast, formed concrete, tile, or wood

  • Fencing brought up to pool safety bylaws: heights, self-closing and self-latching gates, access from the house

  • Drainage connections, per your municipality's requirements

  • Landscape and planting: the backyard you actually bought the pool for

  • Waste removal and site logistics

  • Project management: sequencing every trade above around the pool builder's schedule

Twenty line items, and none of them is the pool.

What moves the number:

Here's the real scope list from a pool project budget, everything outside the pool itself:

What actually failed

Coping and tile are surface work; a shell crack or a leak under the deck is not.

How far water has travelled

Water leaving a pool goes somewhere, the repair often includes what it damaged on the way.

Access and excavation

Getting an excavator, soil trucks, and concrete into a Vancouver backyard is a real line item, on some waterfront lots, equipment arrives by barge.

Services

Gas and electrical runs from the house to the pool equipment are priced by distance, panel capacity, and what's in the way.

The paper scope

Survey, permit drawings, structural and geotechnical engineering, an arborist report where trees are protected, a permitted pool project can involve all of them.

We price it open-book: the actual cost of every trade and material, plus our stated management fee. Every invoice from every specialist is visible to you in the client portal. Costs shown include our management fee and exclude GST.

How We

Manage Pool Projects

Diagnosis Before Repair

A pool that's losing water or a deck that's settling has a cause, and repairing the symptom without finding it means doing the job twice. We investigate first, with a pool specialist where the systems are involved, an engineer where the structure is, and give you a scope built on what's actually wrong.

One Contractor, Every Trade

A pool project can involve a pool builder, an excavation crew, a plumber running gas, an electrician, concrete placers, and carpenters, within the same month. You get one point of accountability: we hire the trades, sequence them around the pool contractor's schedule, and stand behind the whole scope. Every invoice is visible in your portal.

The Permit Reality, Stated Up Front

The scope list above is long, and who provides each piece varies, some come from the pool contractor and their engineers, some from consultants we coordinate, some from your municipality's requirements for your specific lot. We won't pretend to know exactly what will be required before signing on, often nobody does until the municipality weighs in. Once we're on the project, figuring it out is our job, not yours: we identify what's required and who provides it, and every piece shows up in your budget where you can see it.

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QUESTIONS?

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  • No, that's routine maintenance, and a pool service company is the right call for it. We build and repair: structure, concrete, waterproofing, surrounds, services, and the coordinated trade work that requires. Most pool owners already have a maintenance crew they trust, keep them. If you'd rather hand the coordination off, 360 Homecare members can fold pool service in with the rest of the home's upkeep.

  • Usually more than homeowners expect, and every pool builder draws their scope differently, so the honest answer is "read the quote." Many stop at or near the coping of the pool; what's consistent is that a lot of construction lives outside whatever they cover: excavation and soil removal, trenching, the gas line, electrical from your panel, the equipment room, coping and decking, bylaw-compliant fencing, drainage, and the backyard afterward. If you come to us first, we bring the pool builder in under us and run the whole project. If you're already committed to one, we go through their scope, map what it doesn't cover, and take on the rest. Either way, one contractor is accountable instead of you refereeing six trades.

  • You usually can't from the surface, a steady water-level drop can be either. Diagnosis is the first phase of scope: pressure testing on the lines, inspection of the shell and penetrations, and only then a repair plan. We'd rather spend a day finding the cause than spend your budget repairing the wrong thing.

  • New pools do, and the application involves more than most: survey, drawings, grading and drainage plans, and a barrier plan for the safety fencing. Like-for-like repairs generally don't need one, but new gas or electrical work brings Technical Safety BC permits and inspections either way. We confirm what applies and coordinate the process.

  • Most of it can happen any time of year, excavation, services, structures, and demolition don't care about the season. The weather-sensitive work is the pool shell and the finishes: those need better weather, and the schedule gets built around them. Plan backwards from the summer you want to swim in, and start earlier than feels necessary, permits and design eat months before anything gets dug.

  • We have a $5,000 minimum project size. Most pool work worth doing clears it; smaller work and recurring maintenance is handled through 360 Homecare, our home maintenance membership.

  • Vancouver, UBC, North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Burnaby, Coquitlam, New Westminster, Squamish, and Lions Bay.

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