Pool remodelling and structural alterations
If an older pool no longer suits your villa or resort, we can remodel the existing concrete shell, layout and circulation without demolishing everything.
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Upgrades & repairs for hotels and villas · Drained works
Reshaping the shell, ledges and entries
Older pools often have deep, boxy layouts or unused spa corners with broken blowers. We assess structural alterations and a continuous PebbleCrete finish as part of a drained pool remodel. Engineering decisions are made with you and your engineer — or, if you don't have one, with our partner engineer — and a new finish never fixes a substrate, bonding or leak problem by itself.
Where a builder or contractor is handling the main villa renovation, we can also coordinate our shell, pipework and PebbleCrete finish stages directly with them.
- Extending the length or width of the pool or changing its footprint
- Adding a Baja shelf (shallow sun ledge), sunken seating or a gently sloped lagoon beach entry
- Converting a disused jacuzzi into a shallow lounge ledge or wide entry steps
- Adding a new heated jacuzzi, air-massage zone or insulated cold plunge pool with a chiller, with the electrical work agreed with your electrician or engineer
- Re-lining the shell of an old fibreglass pool, or tiling it, so you do not have to throw the pool away
Flood protection and circulation changes
Some Phuket pools suffer from poor original hydraulics or seasonal surface flooding during heavy monsoon rains. When remodelling a pool, we inspect the levels, drains, overflow channels, balance tank and plant room so we can solve recurring water and drainage problems at the same time. We also fit automatic emergency drainage in overflow tanks that tend to flood during storms, agreed with your electrician or engineer; battery pumps are a last line of defence rather than main drainage. Never enter a flooded plant room while the power is on — isolation, earthing and earth-leakage checks are carried out by a licensed electrician. Where plant is moved above water level, the hydraulics need to be designed for the height.
- Raising the pool perimeter wall and coping above garden flood levels
- Drainage channels around the pool perimeter to take garden water away
- Lifting underground pumps and electrical boards to higher ground or upper floors, agreed with your electrician or engineer
- Rebuilding asymmetric or leaking overflow channels, gratings and balance tanks
- Tank-in-tank lining for leaking balance tanks and, in difficult cases, for the pool itself
- Simplifying over-complicated pipework and resetting floor drains, skimmers and return inlets
Completing a pool left unfinished by another contractor
We complete pools left unfinished by another contractor, starting with an inspection of what is already on site. Depending on the condition and stage reached, the work can include render, embedded fittings and a PebbleCrete finish from a bare shell, or cleaning and keeping existing wall finishes while renewing the floor, steps and coping.
A new finish never fixes a substrate, bonding or leak problem by itself. Leak finding includes pipework pressure tests and pump on/off level checks, and we cannot promise to find every leak. We replace leaking pool lights with ultra-slim resin-filled surface lights.
Completion work can also include raising low balance tank and water tank openings, casting new concrete lids and putting the pump room in order with a new filter and salt chlorinator. We can fill sand filters with PebblePure glass filter media. Electrical work, including isolation, earthing and earth-leakage checks, is carried out by a licensed electrician and agreed with your electrician or engineer.
- Render, embedded fittings and PebbleCrete finish from a bare concrete shell cast by others
- Cleaning and keeping existing wall finishes where their condition allows
- Renewing floors, steps, coping, surrounds and outer walls
- Investigating overflow channel leaks and replacing leaking pool lights
- Raising low tank openings and casting new concrete lids
- Putting pump rooms in order, fitting filters and salt chlorinators, and restarting pools
How we inspect and organise a remodel
Deep remodelling requires the pool to be drained and stripped around the areas being altered, and draining in the wet season or with high groundwater needs care. We start with an on-site inspection of the concrete shell, terrace levels and pump room access, then agree the scope, finishes and equipment with you.
Not every hidden problem can be found at the start. Once the pool is drained and opened up, other defects can appear, especially when the pool's history is unknown. We show you what we find and agree any change to the scope with you.
For hotels and rental villas, we plan the work for a single shutdown window and coordinate site access with your manager or engineer. The programme is agreed for the individual project.
What to send for a first discussion
To discuss extending or remodelling your pool and receive a quotation, send us the details below.
- Photos of the pool, terrace, surrounding levels and pump room
- Your villa, hotel or resort location in Phuket or elsewhere in Thailand
- The approximate pool dimensions and any original drawings if you have them
- A description of what you want changed, added or simplified
Where we have done this
CompletedVilla Colina, Khao Lak
Leak repair and renovation: waterproofing and foam injection, fillets at the floor joint, jacuzzi rebuilt as a shallow ledge, new steps, render and finish
The renewed pool and its curved shallow ledge, with the guesthouse beyond
The pool leaked badly through a poor original casting. We waterproofed it, rebuilt the round jacuzzi as a shallow ledge with seating, added new steps and refinished the pool.
CompletedPrivate Residence, Bang Tao — plunge pool and waterfall wall
Plunge pool raised out of the flood zone: edge lifted, drains and system rebuilt with the pumps moved up, new steps, seats and jacuzzi, new finish
The plunge pool under its waterfall wall
The plunge pool sat in a flood zone. We raised its edge, rebuilt all the drains and the system with the pumps moved to a higher level, and built new steps, seats and a jacuzzi.
CompletedThe Estate, Ao Po
Strip-out, the jacuzzi replaced with steps, a simpler system with a new filter, salt chlorinator and lighting, render, coping and the new finish
The overflow edge and the bay beyond
We cut out the unused blower and jacuzzi, built steps in the jacuzzi's place, removed the old pipework and extra inlets, and fitted a new filter, salt chlorinator and lighting.
CompletedPrivate Villa, Rawai — Polar White
Leak found and fixed at the overflow; tile and render stripped, new steps, drain channel, top-up, salt chlorinator and pump, new finish
The renewed pool and the villa
Water was escaping under the terrace and the house. The overflow had been rendered so high that the water stood level with the terrace; we rebuilt it slightly lower and the leak stopped. We also waterproofed the tanks and rebuilt the steps and the drain channel.
CompletedAyara Surin
Pool completion: cleaning and restarting the pool, the pool surround and the outer wall
Cleaning freshly fixed pool
We cleaned the pool down, relaid the surround, refinished the curved outer wall and restarted the pool. The failed strip of surround was cut off and relaid in PebbleCrete Classic French Grey; the outer wall is PebbleCrete Glass Teal Pearl.
CompletedPrivate Villa, Rawai — Pearl White
Pool completion: overflow leak fixed; new floor, steps and coping; new pool lights; tank openings raised with new concrete lids; the pump room put in order with a new filter, PebblePure and a salt chlorinator
The renewed pool along the garden
We completed this villa pool: we cleaned the sandwash on the walls and kept it, found the overflow channel leak and stopped it, and fitted new pool lights; the floor, steps and coping are new in PebbleCrete Classic Pearl White. We raised the openings of both tanks, cast new concrete lids, put the pump room in order, fitted a new filter filled with PebblePure glass filter media and added a salt chlorinator.
CompletedThe Talay
New pool finish from the bare shell, with the embedded fittings set by us
The curved pool and its shallow entrance from above
We installed the finish starting from the bare concrete shell the client had cast: the render, embedded fittings and PebbleCrete Classic Pearl White finish are ours. We advised the client on how to build the shallow entrance and bring it out to zero depth without a visible step line.
Further reading
Articles on the site of PebbleCrete, the manufacturer of the finish we apply.
Guides on this topic
Flooded pool pump rooms in Phuket: causes, damage and protection options
An underground pump room keeps equipment out of sight and out of earshot, but in the monsoon it can leave pumps, filters and switchboards standing in water. If yours has flooded: stay out of the water, keep the power off and have a licensed electrician check the electrics before anything is restarted. To stop it happening again, the pump room is either moved above flood level or protected where it is with raised pumps, relocated switchboards, back-up drainage and level switches.What drives the scope and budget of a villa pool in Phuket
The scope and budget of a villa pool in Phuket are driven by the site and access, the ground and groundwater, the size, depth zones and edge type, the structure and waterproofing, the equipment, finish and features, and the timing around the monsoon. Two pools of a similar size can end up with very different scopes, so this guide sets out each factor, without quoting prices, so you can plan ahead and compare quotations on the same basis.Does a new pool finish stop a leak?
No. A finish is not waterproofing. Find and repair the leak first, then refinish.Questions we are asked
Will the joint between old and new concrete leak?
Joining new concrete to an old shell is technically demanding. Not every solution is possible, and each site has its limitations. We assess this for each project before agreeing the structural and waterproofing scope, and we do not make promises we cannot keep.
What can we do with an old jacuzzi that nobody uses?
We can convert it into a shallow lounge ledge or wide entry steps. We also remove redundant blower lines to simplify the pump room.
Can you stop garden runoff from flooding our pool?
We can raise the pool edge and coping above the surrounding flood level, and install drainage channels around the pool to take garden water away. We can also adjust the drains and overflow, and move vulnerable pumps and electrical panels to higher ground — with the hydraulics designed for the height and the electrical work carried out by a licensed electrician and agreed with your electrician or engineer.
Can an old fibreglass pool be kept?
Yes. We re-line the pool shell, and we can tile old fibreglass pools. You do not have to throw an old pool away.
Related work
Regrouting & tile repair
Missing grout and loose mosaic tiles trap dirt, leave sharp edges and let water reach the render beneath. We drain the pool to regrout tilework, replace broken tiles and re-line or tile worn fibreglass pools.Deep renovation & resurfacing
When the tiles, render or an old finish fail across a pool, patching tends to move the problem around. We strip the pool back to the shell, removing the old tiles, render and every added layer. Then we renew it in PebbleCrete or with new tiles.Pool steps & anti-slip
Steep ladders, missing handrails and smooth or worn entries make a pool awkward for guests. We plan how people get in and out, build concrete steps and shallow ledges in PebbleCrete, fit handrails and apply anti-slip coatings.Tell us where the pool is and what you want changed.
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