What Does an Inground Build Cost in Williamson County?

Most new pools around Franklin land at $80,000 or more, and a fully finished custom gunite project runs $100,000 to $250,000, under the ranges other local builders publish. Smaller plunge options start closer to $42,000. Rock, slope, decking, and outdoor features move the number, itemized before you sign.

Does a Molded Shell Have a Downside?

Shape and size. A fiberglass pool comes out of a mold, so when the design in your head fits no mold, gunite is the better way and I will say so up front. The other risk is careless backfill flexing the walls, so our crews over-dig and bed each shell in clean gravel.

How Long Does a Composite Shell Last With Basic Maintenance?

Decades. A properly installed fiberglass pool outlasts its own gelcoat finish, and fiberglass pools stay the lightest upkeep of anything we offer. When the gelcoat finally dulls, a refresh brings the shine back without touching the structure, and we handle that work too.

Do I Need a Permit, and From Which Desk?

Almost certainly. The desk depends on your address. Franklin requires a permit for any pool deeper than 24 inches, unincorporated Williamson County starts at 30 inches, and Brentwood, Spring Hill, Thompson's Station, Nolensville, and Fairview each issue their own. Either way, we identify your desk and carry the whole permitting process.

Will the HOA or Design Review Board Have a Say?

In Westhaven, Berry Farms, or McKay's Mill, plan on it. Design review boards approve pools and exterior projects, and that approval can take longer than the city permit itself. The codes office will not read your covenants, so we prepare drawings your board can approve the first time.

How Long Does Installation Take, Start to Swim?

Once the permit clears, fiberglass pool installation typically runs four to eight weeks and gunite eight to sixteen. Design and approvals come before any project breaks ground, and in a design review community that part of the process deserves patience. You get a construction schedule the team can defend, then we keep it, on time.

How Do We Choose the Right Type for Our Yard?

Gunite offers unlimited custom shape and generational life. Fiberglass wins on speed and easy upkeep. Vinyl liner gives a smooth swimming surface that suits every caliber of home, and ICF adds efficiency no other material matches. Experience says all four pools succeed when the site work is right, so I look at your lot and budget and recommend the best fit.

How Long Is the Swim Season in Middle Tennessee?

Middle Tennessee logs about 49 days over 90 degrees most years, and unheated water feels good from mid-May to mid-September. A heater adds April and October, and an ICF pool holds warmth longest. The season feels longer when the pool sits ten steps from the back door.

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CUSTOM POOLS GUNITE POOLS FIBERGLASS POOLS CUSTOM VINYL ICF CONSTRUCTION LINER REPLACEMENTS INFINITY EDGE POOLS POOL EQUIPMENT & AUTOMATION WATERSLIDES

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ARTIFICIAL PALM TREES OUTDOOR SAUNAS COLD PLUNGES OUTDOOR KITCHENS PERGOLAS & CABANAS IN-GROUND TRAMPOLINES OUTDOOR LIGHTING OUTDOOR SHOWERS POOL HOUSES PUTTING GREENS SUNKEN FIRE PITS SWIM-UP BARS ARTIFICIAL TURF RUBBER SURFACING & SOFT PLAY

GALLERY FINANCING

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Estate pool and spa with waterfall, fountain, and tennis court built by Backyard Resort Pools in Franklin, TN

POOLS FRANKLIN TN:
FIBERGLASS & CUSTOM POOL BUILDER

The Backyard Resort Your Home Deserves

E Komo Mai. Fifty years in, the water is still warm.

Backyard Resort Pools is a custom pool builder and swimming pool company serving Franklin, TN with inground fiberglass pools, concrete gunite pools, vinyl liner pools, and ICF pool construction. Franklin is one of the fastest growing cities in Tennessee, and the swimming pools here match the homes above them. Supervised, trained, experienced crews build every swimming pool to a fifty-year quality standard, from design table to deep end.

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50+ YEARS

SUPERVISED EXPERT CREWS

FIBERGLASS, GUNITE, VINYL & ICF

LICENSED & INSURED

FROM THE POOL KAHUNA

Aloha, Franklin. Ease Into the Water.

As your pool builder in Franklin, TN, I walk the property, sketch the fiberglass or gunite pool your land can hold, and hand you one itemized quote. Our own crews are building to the standard I set in Nashville, and the Harpeth valley’s rock and slope are priced before we quote.

SWIMMING POOL SERVICES

Swimming Pool Services:
Five Ways to Build

Five services, the same standard.

Fiberglass Pools

Fiberglass pools arrive as finished shells, so installation takes weeks and upkeep stays light. Most projects here start with fiberglass.

Gunite Pools

Gunite pools are concrete sculpted on site: custom luxury, tanning ledges, raised spas, water features drawn for your yard alone.

Custom Vinyl Liner

Vinyl liner pools pair a smooth, comfortable swimming surface with the same quality underneath, set in garden courtyards and estate backyards alike, chosen for feel, never a fallback.

ICF Construction for a Longer Season

Insulated concrete form construction wraps the pool in continuous insulation, so the water shrugs off Middle Tennessee’s 67 freeze nights a year. Nobody else in this market builds ICF pools.

Outdoor Living and Fire Features, Designed Together

Grill islands, outdoor kitchens, fire features, patios: outdoor living planned with the pool as one drawing, so the backyard works as a resort.

One Builder, One Itemized Number

Pool design, permits, excavation, installation, finish work: our team carries the whole pool project start to finish. Your itemized quote arrives before you sign, and the number holds. Five decades without a surprise line item.

How Franklin Pool Builders Compare

Plenty of pool companies bid on Franklin backyards. Here is what separates the top of the field.

BACKYARD RESORT POOLS

TYPICAL CONTRACTORS

Experience

Five decades of pool construction

Often under twenty

Crews

Trained in-house team, supervised

Rotating subcontractors

The dig

Rock and slope priced up front

Change orders after the dig

Materials

Fiberglass, gunite, vinyl liner, and ICF

Usually two

Pricing

Real numbers, published

Revealed late in the process

The dig row matters most. A pool bid that ignores limestone grows in the ground, and the overrun lands on the homeowner. Experience reads the rock and prices the pool dig once.

DESIGNED FOR THE GROUND

Limestone Under the Lawn:
Building on the Nashville Basin’s Edge

Franklin sits on Ordovician limestone at the edge of the Nashville Basin, 500 million years old, over active karst the county documents: springs, sinkholes, caves. The Harpeth winds through town, and the prettiest hillside lots hide the shallowest rock, so our team plans for stone. Every fiberglass pool installation gets an over-dug hole, a bed of quality gravel, and drainage planned on purpose. Five decades of experience in Middle Tennessee ground taught us to price the dig up front.

Pool shell set into excavated Middle Tennessee ground

The Process, in Three Honest Steps

The process is simple on purpose.

Walk the yard.

The visit is free. Tell me the vision; I will tell you what your slope and setbacks allow.

Design and quote.

I sketch the pool design, we choose materials together, and you get one itemized number with a project schedule I can defend.

We build.

A supervised crew digs, sets the fiberglass pool shell or shoots the gunite, pressure-tests the plumbing, and passes inspection before each construction phase.

★★★★★

“Rarely do you find a pool company as responsive and deliver on time, on budget and always looking out for the clients best interest.”

BOBBY D · GOOGLE REVIEW

PAPERWORK, HANDLED

Pool Permits Across Williamson County’s Six Desks

Six desks issue pool permits here. We handle the pool permit your address answers to.

Franklin, Brentwood, Spring Hill, Thompson’s Station, Nolensville, and Fairview each run their own codes office.

Unincorporated addresses, Leiper’s Fork to Grassland, Arrington, and College Grove, use Williamson County Building Codes.

Thresholds differ: Franklin permits any pool holding more than 24 inches of water; the county line is 30.

Both demand a 48 inch barrier and a self-closing, self-latching gate that swings away from the pool, plus door alarms or a powered cover when the house joins the barrier.

Franklin enforces Katie Beth’s Law, the state pool alarm statute; the alarm must work at final inspection. Our team pulls every permit, on every project, under the 2024 construction codes.

STRAIGHT NUMBERS

What a Pool Runs Here, in Real Numbers

The median Franklin, TN home runs $705,400, and the pool should match the house. Most pools we build land at $80,000 and up once the features families want are on the drawing. A custom gunite backyard resort runs $100,000 to $250,000; around Nashville, published ranges for luxury pools top $400,000. Smaller plunge pool options start closer to $42,000.

$59,000

14X28 BUDGET POOLS FROM

$80,000+

MOST POOLS WE BUILD

$100–250K

CUSTOM GUNITE RESORT

Ask Us About Financing

We offer financing services through specialty lenders. Tell us a comfortable monthly payment and we design toward it. The consultation and estimate stay free.

Each build is backed in writing: [XX-year] structural coverage on the shell and [X years] on workmanship, plus manufacturer warranties on equipment. Confirm warranty terms with client.

What Customers Say About Their Pool Builder

The team answers the phone long after the pool passes final inspection.

★★★★★

“I had a complex air intake issue with my spa’s bubble jet. These guys helped me troubleshoot and solve the problem in a couple minutes over the phone. Saved me a ton of time and money.”

MIKE ANDERSON · GOOGLE REVIEW

A LETTER FROM THE KAHUNA

A Letter From the Kahuna on Hillsides, Patience, and Saying No

My name is Ernie Nagy, the Pool Kahuna, the licensed and insured Tennessee builder behind these pools. Fifty years taught me the most valuable word: no. No to a pool shell dropped on a slope that wants a retaining wall first. No to a project schedule that tries to outrun design review. Hillside lots along the Harpeth are the prettiest building ground in Tennessee and the trickiest, and experience buys the patience to build them right. If you want the fastest bid in Williamson County, I am probably not your builder. If you want a pool your grandkids will inherit, we should talk.

Ernie

CUSTOM POOL DESIGN

Custom Pool Design Starts With a Free Consultation

Design services start at your property, not a catalog. I sketch the swimming pool, the water features, the deck, and the outdoor kitchen together, sized for the way your family lives. Fiberglass pools come in proven shapes from the manufacturers we install, and I will point to the models that use your lot best. Gunite takes any custom form we can draw. Ask the Kahuna and bring the backyard vision to paper first.

If BRP will name its fiberglass shell manufacturers, they belong in this paragraph. Confirm with client.

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Pool with a tanning ledge and in-water loungers

Raised spa spilling into a pool beside a stone grotto

Stone outdoor kitchen and grill island beside a pool

Pool lit with color LED lighting after dark

WHERE WE BUILD

Your Franklin Pool Builders, From Nashville to Leiper’s Fork

From downtown Franklin and Main Street, our crews build pools in Westhaven, Berry Farms, McKay’s Mill, Cool Springs, and Laurelbrooke, then out to rural Grassland, Leiper’s Fork, Thompson’s Station, Nolensville, Arrington, and College Grove. The same team brings the same services to custom swimming pools in Brentwood, Spring Hill, Nashville, Murfreesboro, Smyrna, Lebanon, Mount Juliet, Gallatin, and Hendersonville, across Williamson, Davidson, Rutherford, Wilson, and Sumner counties.

FRANKLIN Westhaven Berry Farms McKay’s Mill Cool Springs Laurelbrooke Fieldstone Farms Grassland Leiper’s Fork Thompson’s Station Nolensville Arrington College Grove Brentwood Spring Hill Nashville

Somewhere else in Middle Tennessee? Call the Kahuna.

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GOOD QUESTIONS

Frequently Asked Questions

Ready to Swim in Franklin, TN?

Call (615) 944-1612, open 8 to 6, Monday through Saturday, or write to backyardresortpools@gmail.com. The consultation is on us. I will walk the property and hand you an honest number for the pool and backyard resort your family will swim in for decades. E komo mai. Come on in.

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