Inground pools and the backyard around them, in Salt Lake & Utah County

Ours are coming in around $150,000, including the equipment, deck and automatic safety cover, and about $200,000 with the landscaping. Smaller pools cost less. Other Utah companies publish fiberglass prices from about $50,000 to $60,000 at the low end to $90,000 to $140,000 for most projects, and each counts different things in its number. Rock, access, groundwater and the yard you want decide where yours lands, so Jason prices it after he has walked it.

Because the things that move the price can't be seen over the phone: how a crane and a digger get into your yard, what's under the lawn, how high the groundwater sits, and where your setbacks and easements fall. A number we'd have to change later isn't worth giving. After the walk, you get one written price.

We suggest signing over the winter. Plan on about three months from signing. The drawings and the city permit take about a month, a shell can take up to about eight weeks to arrive if the dealer doesn't have your model in stock, and the work in your yard takes a few weeks.

On the Wasatch Front it usually costs less than a custom concrete pool, and because the shell is made in a factory, the work in your yard takes weeks instead of the months a concrete pool needs. The limits are real too: about 16 ft is the widest a shell can be and still travel by road, the shape comes from the model you pick, and the shell warranty is void if groundwater collects around the pool, which is why drainage is half our job.

You need a barrier. Utah enforces the 2024 pool code, which requires one at least 48 in. tall with self-closing, self-latching gates, and Riverton and Bluffdale want 6 ft. Usually your fenced backyard is the barrier: a fence on every lot line, closed against the house, with gates that close and latch themselves. Where the house is one side, the code calls for door alarms or a listed safety cover, and every MP pool gets the cover. Want a fence around the pool itself too, for toddlers? We build those.

No. Secondary water is untreated irrigation water and isn't tested for germs. Fill with culinary (city) water. In Riverton, filling a 20,000-gallon pool adds roughly $125 to $150 to the water bill, depending on your other use that month.

Partly. A national realtor survey puts the cost you recover at sale at around half, and cold-climate markets recover less. Owners still rate a pool as the outdoor project that brings the most joy. Build one for your family, not for resale.

Unheated, a Salt Lake Valley pool is comfortable from about June through August. The cover holds the heat in, a heater adds the shoulder months, and a spa heats fast enough to stretch your season into spring and fall.

Most Latham shells are rated no-diving, and we don't recommend boards in a short season. One deep model, the Synergy Grand at 8 ft 6 in., is rated for diving if it really matters to you. A slide or a waterfall gets far more use.

Not right now. We install Latham fiberglass pools, and the landscaping around them.

Yes. Jason comes out, walks the yard with you and answers your questions. No cost, nothing to sign, and no follow-up pressure.

Since 30 March 2026, only a B100 or R100 general contractor may install a residential pool in Utah. A landscape (S330) license no longer covers pools. Anyone can look up a builder's license on the state's DOPL lookup before signing, and you should.

Home equity (a loan or a line of credit) is the usual route for a full build, because it usually runs past the cap on unsecured pool loans. Talk to your bank or credit union before the design is final, so the plan and the budget are settled together.