Your Licensed
Pool Builders
New gunite pools, spas, decking, and water features — engineered, permitted, and built by one accountable general contractor. CSLB #1021284, based in Valley Glen.
Professional, licensed & insuredFixed-price proposalsPermits pulled & closedOur own crew, not subs
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Pool builders in Los Angeles: Right Image Builders (CSLB #1021284) designs, engineers, permits and builds custom gunite pools, raised spas, decks and outdoor kitchens across the San Fernando Valley with one team, from soils and structural engineering through LADBS permits, shell, plaster and equipment. Roughly 8–16 weeks of construction once permits are issued; one fixed written price after a free design visit.
Licensed general contractor, CSLB #1021284, licensed since 2016, 5.0★ Google (45 reviews), 4.9★ Angi (103 reviews). Planning ranges by tier and neighborhood are in the pool cost guide.
Right Image Builders designs and builds new swimming pools across Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley — engineered gunite shells, attached and raised spas, tile and coping, stone decking, and water features. As a licensed general contractor, we carry the permits, the excavation, the structural work, and every trade under one written fixed-price contract. CSLB #1021284, fully insured. Free on-site quote: (818) 210-4544.
A Pool Is Structural
Concrete, Permanently
A swimming pool is the largest piece of engineered concrete most homeowners will ever install. It carries reinforcing steel, a shotcrete shell, hydraulics, bonded electrical, and its own inspection sequence — and once it is in the ground, correcting it is expensive and disruptive. That is why we treat a pool as a construction project first and a landscape feature second.
Hiring a licensed general contractor rather than a pool-only crew changes what you actually get. One company is legally accountable for the permits, the excavation, the shell, the deck, the gas and electrical, and every subcontractor on the property — and carries the liability and workers' compensation insurance while they are there. It also means the pool and the yard around it are designed together, so the deck elevation, the drainage, and the coping meet the way they should.
Permitting is not uniform across Los Angeles, and that trips people up. In the City of LA, pools go through LADBS. Independent cities run their own departments — Burbank permits through its own Building Division and does not use LADBS. Toluca Lake is genuinely split between the two depending on which side of the line your parcel sits. We confirm the correct authority before anything is drawn.
Dig to Startup,
One Contract
Design & Structural Engineering
Shape, depth, and placement worked against your real lot — setbacks, easements, drainage, and the sight lines from inside the house. The shell is engineered, and where slope or soil demands it, geotechnical work happens before anything is dug.
Permits & Inspections
We identify the correct authority — LADBS, or an independent city's own building division — then submit the structural drawings, carry building, electrical, and plumbing approvals through plan check, schedule every inspection, and close the permit at completion.
Excavation & Site Access
Layout, dig, and haul-off. Access is the most underestimated variable in Los Angeles: narrow side yards, canyon driveways, and hillside grades decide whether we use compact machines, conveyors, or a crane and pump truck. We price it honestly at the site visit.
Steel, Shell, Plumbing & Equipment
Reinforcing steel bonded to code, then the gunite or shotcrete shell and its cure. Circulation and returns are plumbed, the equipment pad is set, and gas and electrical are run for heating — with a variable-speed pump as California energy rules require.
Tile, Coping, Decking & Water Features
Waterline tile, coping, and the deck that actually makes the yard usable — travertine, pavers, or finished concrete. Raised spas, stone sheer-descent walls, and spillways are built here, because they are structural elements, not decorative afterthoughts.
Safety Barrier, Plaster & Startup
Required drowning-prevention features are designed in from the start rather than bolted on to pass a final. Then plaster, fill, and a supervised startup so the surface cures correctly — ending with your walkthrough and a closed permit.
Transparent from the first visit to the closed permit.
Professional, licensed and insured, and we put that in writing at every step, because a remodel is a trust decision before it is a construction decision.
California general contractor license CSLB #1021284 (General Building B), active since 2016, with general liability and workers' compensation insurance. Check the license yourself at cslb.ca.gov before you sign anything, with us or anyone else.
The proposal lists what is demolished, what is built, which finishes are included and which permit covers it. If it is not written down, it is not in the job.
When walls, floors or roofs open up we photograph what is behind them and send you the pictures. Anything beyond the scope is priced in writing before the crew continues. You never find out from the invoice.
California law caps a home-improvement deposit at $1,000 or 10 percent of the contract, whichever is less. We follow it. Progress payments follow the work, and the final payment comes after your walkthrough.
We submit the plans, meet the inspector and close the permit. You get the closed-permit record, which is what a buyer, an insurer or an appraiser will ask for.
The people who estimate the job are the people who build it. No subcontractor hand-offs, no call center; your project lead answers the phone during the job and after it.
Choose Your City
No Surprise Invoices
in Los Angeles
A pool in Los Angeles starts with a free on-site visit and ends with one fixed, written price that covers the whole scope, the permit from LADBS and the inspections, before any work begins.
The three things that change the price are the scope, what the house hides and the finishes you choose, and each is settled in writing before the crew moves on; final payment comes after your walkthrough.
If you want numbers before the visit, the pool cost guide publishes the current planning ranges.
Three Steps.
Zero Surprises.
Free On-Site Consultation
We walk your yard, measure access, check setbacks, grade, and overhead lines, and talk through shape, depth, and spa options — with an honest read on cost and timeline before you commit to anything.
Design & Fixed-Price Contract
You get the layout and an itemized, fixed-price contract — scope, finishes, equipment, milestone schedule, permits, and payment terms in writing. We then submit to the correct authority and carry plan check.
Build & Close the Permit
Excavation through steel, shell, deck, plaster, and startup, with your project lead on-site and every inspection scheduled by us. Final payment is due only after your walkthrough approval.
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Building a Pool
Right Image Builders (CSLB #1021284), based in Valley Glen, designs, permits and builds gunite pools, spas and the surrounding deck and hardscape in Van Nuys, Sherman Oaks, Encino, Studio City, Valley Village, North Hollywood, Toluca Lake, Burbank, Tarzana and Woodland Hills under one fixed-price contract: engineering, permits, one crew from excavation to plaster and startup, and final payment only after your walkthrough. 5.0★ on Google (45 reviews) and 4.9★ on Angi (103 reviews).
Search the license number at cslb.ca.gov. For Right Image Builders, CSLB #1021284, the record shows the classification, the active status, the contractor bond and the workers' compensation coverage. Ask any contractor you interview for the same number and a certificate of insurance before you sign, and make sure the pool permit is pulled in the contractor's name, not yours.
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Not without your written approval. The fixed price covers the scope we agreed, the LADBS permit and the inspections; if the house in Los Angeles hides a problem, you get a written, priced change order before the crew touches it, and the final payment is only due after your walkthrough. Current planning ranges are in the pool cost guide.
Build Your
Los Angeles Pool
Tell us about your backyard and we'll get back to you within 4 business hours. We'll bring our license and insurance details in writing to the consultation — no obligation, no pressure.
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