Concrete & Pool Decks in Gilbert, AZ

Gilbert is full of family homes with a backyard pool already in the ground, and in a town this hot that pool is the center of summer. The problem is usually the deck around it. Builder-grade broom-finish concrete turns too hot to cross barefoot by mid-morning in July, cracks as the caliche beneath it heaves, and does nothing for a backyard the rest of the family actually lives in. Solterra works on everything around that existing pool, the deck surface, the coping that caps the edge, and the coatings that keep it cool. To be clear, we do not build, install or remodel pools. We build the hardscape around the one you already have.

The single biggest complaint about a Gilbert pool deck is a surface too hot for bare feet, and we attack it two ways. First, material and color: light-toned travertine, buff and gray pavers, and troweled cool-deck coatings reflect more sun and hold less heat than dark concrete. Second, texture: a matte, lightly textured finish reads cooler and grips better when it is splashed than a smooth sealed slab. On the flat, fully exposed lots common in Power Ranch and Layton Lakes, where there is no mature shade yet, that surface choice is the difference between a deck you use all summer and one everyone tiptoes across.

Coping is the capped edge where the deck meets the pool, and it does real work: it gives a finished, comfortable lip to sit on and sheds splash-out water away from the shell. We set travertine, precast or paver coping to a clean line and a slight pitch so water runs off instead of pooling at the edge. Drainage is the Gilbert detail people miss. These lots are dead flat and the caliche sheds water rather than absorbing it, so a monsoon downpour has nowhere to go unless the deck is graded for it. We pitch the surface and add channel or deck drains where the site needs them, so a summer storm clears fast and runoff moves away from both the pool and the house.

Most of our Gilbert pool-deck work is a resurface, not a tear-out. If the existing slab is structurally sound, we can lay pavers or travertine over it, or trowel on a cool-deck overlay, without demolishing the whole deck, which is faster and less costly. Where the concrete is badly cracked, heaved or sitting on poor base, we rebuild on compacted aggregate so the new surface stays flat. We walk the deck first and tell you honestly which path it calls for. Because so much of Gilbert sits inside HOA communities like Seville and Val Vista Lakes, we also build for the approval process, choosing materials and colors that pass architectural review and preparing the documentation for your submittal. We have been a Phoenix-area contractor since 2012 under ROC 359628.