Pool builder in Franklin, TN

What Franklin back yards are actually like

Most of the Franklin work we look at falls into three shapes. There are the older in-town lots off West Main and around downtown, where the house sits close to the street and the back yard is deep but narrow with a single-track side path. There are the wooded subdivision lots south and west of town where the ground falls ten or fifteen feet from the patio to the back fence. And there are the newer builds where the yard is flat, the grass is good, and the only real question is whether the crane can get past the corner of the house.

All three are fine for a precast pool. They are very different jobs for a gunite crew. A dig on a falling lot means a retaining wall, and a retaining wall on a Williamson County slope is frequently the most expensive line on the whole quote.

Trees are the Franklin problem, not the slope

Slope we can work with. Canopy is the thing that decides most Franklin jobs. A crane needs a clear vertical corridor over the set point, and a sixty-foot oak with a spread over the back yard closes that corridor whether the ground under it is flat or not.

This is why we look at the street and the tree line before we look at the yard. Sometimes the answer is to reach from the driveway at a longer radius with a bigger machine. Sometimes it is to take one limb rather than one tree. Sometimes it is to use a Little Pool Co. fiberglass shell instead, because at under three thousand pounds it flies through a gap a twenty-five thousand pound concrete shell never could. We tell you which one it is before you are committed to anything.

HOA and architectural review

A lot of Franklin neighborhoods run an architectural review committee, and a pool is usually a submittal. That is not a problem, it is a calendar item. It matters here more than in most of Middle Tennessee because a review cycle can add weeks on the front end of a project that only takes days on the back end.

We build the submittal package as part of the design and permit work: the site plan, the pool location with setbacks, the equipment pad, the fence line, and the finish selections. You submit it once with everything in it rather than three times.

Permits in Williamson County

Pool permits in Franklin go through Williamson County and the City of Franklin depending on where the property sits. The permit covers the pool, the barrier and the electrical bonding, and there is an inspection at the end. We apply in our name, not yours, and we schedule the inspections.

Which pool fits a Franklin yard

On a fully in-ground set in Franklin we usually put you on a precast concrete Plungie. It is the better looking pool and it is the more durable one. Where the lot falls hard, or the crane cannot make the reach, the Little Pool Co. fiberglass shell is what makes the pool possible at all, because it is self-standing and goes above grade or part-buried without a retaining wall behind it.

The short version of the rule we use: fully in-ground, go concrete. Above grade, part-buried or a hard reach, go fiberglass. The crane is what decides it. A precast concrete Plungie weighs around twenty five thousand pounds and a Little Pool Co. fiberglass shell weighs under three thousand, and that difference is what determines whether a pool is possible on a given lot at a sane price.

How a Franklin pool actually goes in

We walk the lot and look at the street, the side path, the canopy and where the water goes in a storm. We tell you what the access allows before you pick anything. Then we design the pool, apply for the permit in our name, prepare the base and the plumbing and electrical, and book the crane. The set itself is a day. After that it is decking, equipment, fill and start-up.

You are swimming in weeks, not months, and there is no open hole sitting in your yard through a Tennessee summer waiting on a gunite crew.

Why Franklin homeowners call us

You deal with the owner. Wallaby Pools is run by Winston Farzan, a licensed Tennessee general contractor, licence number 75052, with more than twenty six years in the building industry. We are Nashville's authorized Plungie partner and a certified Little Pool Co. installer, and we take the lots other pool companies turn down.

Franklin pools, asked straight

Can you put a pool in a sloped Franklin back yard?

Yes, and it is most of what we do out there. The shell sets in-ground, part-buried or above grade depending on how the ground falls. Because a precast shell is structural on its own, a slope does not automatically mean a retaining wall the way a dug pool does.

Do I need to take down trees for the crane?

Usually not. We look for a vertical corridor over the set point first, then a longer reach from the driveway, then a lighter fiberglass shell. Taking a tree is the last option, not the first.

How long does a Franklin pool take?

The set itself is a day. From signed contract to swimming is usually a matter of weeks, and the front end is permits and HOA review rather than construction. That is the part worth starting early.

Do you handle the HOA submittal?

Yes. It is part of the design and permit work. We prepare the site plan and the selections so you submit a complete package the first time.

What does a pool cost in Franklin?

It depends on the model, the access, and how much decking and equipment you want around it. Use the cost calculator for a real range, then we quote your actual yard after a walk.

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