Rivera Family Pools designs and builds custom inground pools across Belvedere Tiburon and Marin County. From the first design conversation through engineering, permitting, excavation, the shotcrete shell, tile, plaster, and the deck, one in-house team carries the whole build. We shape the pool to your slope, your view, and the way your family uses the water, put the design and price in writing, and engineer every phase to last on a Marin lot.
- Custom design and detailed renderings
- Hillside and waterfront engineering
- Permits and structural review handled
- Shotcrete shells with retaining and drainage
- Built right and code-compliant
How a custom pool comes together on a Marin lot
A new pool is built in a fixed order, and on a sloped Tiburon lot that order matters even more. We begin with a design that reckons with your grade, your access, the soil, the view you want to capture, and how you intend to live around the water. Once you sign off on the plan and the renderings, we pull the permits, coordinate the structural engineering and any soils work, and stake the dig. Excavation carves the pool and shapes the cuts and benches the slope requires. Then the steel goes in, the plumbing is run, and the shotcrete shell is shot to give the pool its strength.
From there the build turns to everything you see and feel: the waterline tile, the coping along the edge, the interior plaster or pebble, and the deck and hardscape that tie the pool back to the house. On a hillside, this stage usually includes the retaining and drainage that hold the grade and keep water moving away from the structure. Each phase rests on the one before it, which is precisely why a single team that owns the whole sequence finishes cleaner than a relay of separate subcontractors.
All the way through, we keep you posted on where things stand and what comes next, because a build has a rhythm and knowing it removes most of the worry. We close out with the equipment startup, a water balance, the final inspection, and a walk-through so you know exactly how to run and look after your new pool.
Designed around your slope and your view
The right pool for your home is the one drawn around your particular lot, and in Marin that lot is rarely flat. A downhill grade invites a vanishing edge; a side-yard that barely fits an excavator dictates how we stage the work; a stand of oaks or a Bay panorama decides where the pool and the lounging sit. We design with those givens in mind from the first sketch, so the plan you approve is one we are confident we can build without an expensive surprise at the dig.
We also design for how the pool will actually be used in this climate. A family that wants a warm spa and a sheltered shallow shelf for cool mornings needs a different layout than one focused on lap swimming or evening entertaining with the city lights across the water. We shape the depth, the steps, the benches, the spa, and the heating to your life rather than to a stock template.
Because we build what we draw, the choices that drive both the look and the budget get made together. The shell, the retaining, the equipment, the finishes, and the deck all pull on one another on a sloped site, and planning them as one project is how the finished backyard reads as a single composed space.
Engineered to last in a coastal Marin setting
The structure decides how long a pool lasts, so on a hillside it is where we concentrate. We engineer the shell to your soil and slope, set the steel to spec, and shoot the shotcrete so the shell is sound for the long run. Where the pool retains a grade, the structural and drainage details are designed to carry the load and shed water rather than trap it. The plumbing is laid out for efficient circulation and the equipment pad is built to code.
The finishes are chosen to suit a foggier, cooler, salt-touched coastal setting. Quality plaster, quartz, or pebble interiors, durable tile and coping, and the right decking are what keep a Marin pool reading beautifully in soft light and damp mornings long after the build is done. We pick them with you, weighed against how you use the pool, never as a default add-on.
We build to local pool code and the relevant ANSI/APSP and ICC-5 standards, with the engineering and inspections that make a hillside or waterfront pool safe and durable. If you are planning a new pool in Belvedere Tiburon, call 415-529-6124 for a free design consultation and a written plan.
The larger pool project this fits into
A pool is a design-build project, so pool construction rarely stands alone, it connects to pool renovation, pool remodels, refinishing the surface, decking and hardscape, energy-efficient equipment, and our crew handles all of it as one accountable team. We bring the same service to Mill Valley pool construction, Pool Construction in Sausalito, Corte Madera pool construction, Larkspur pool construction and everywhere else across the Belvedere Tiburon area.
If you searched for local pool construction service, you have reached a local pool builder, call 415-529-6124 any time. For background, read Choosing a Pool Shape and Finish for Marin's Soft Coastal Light on our blog, or head back to our Belvedere Tiburon home page to see everything we do.