Scottsdale is one of the few places in the Valley where you can renovate straight through the decades. Old Town and the older neighborhoods hold pools built across multiple eras, and you can identify how different builders constructed their projects once you've seen enough of them. That history is what makes the work interesting — and sometimes what makes it more challenging, because what's under the surface depends entirely on who built it and when.
The newer areas up toward Troon North are a different job altogether. Those are closer to clean slates, but they bring their own set of challenges rather than fewer of them.
Right now we're also seeing a lot of teardowns and new builds going up on older properties, which changes what a backyard needs entirely.
What we specialize in here: shape changes, depth conversions, water feature additions, spa additions, and integrating an older-style pool into a complete backyard lifestyle rather than treating it as a standalone box of water.
Depth conversions mean exactly what they sound like — taking a deep pool and making it shallow, or taking a shallow pool and making it deeper. Custom changes to existing pools are very frequent in Scottsdale, including adding Baja shelves and similar features to pools that were never built with them.