Burbank Pool Builders designs and builds custom gunite pools in Los Feliz, CA, where hillside lots, historic homes, and steep, view-rich parcels are common. Los Feliz is squarely in our wheelhouse: backyards that climb or drop with the grade, older properties that demand respect, and lots where the structural plan has to come first. One crew owns the project from the soils read to the final inspection.
Building a pool in Los Feliz means engineering for the hillside and the history of the home. We read the grade and the soil, plan the access for the dig and the gunite rig on a steep lot, and tie retaining into the pool structure so it sits securely on the slope. The result is a pool that fits the home, the grade, and the view the hillside often provides.
Pools engineered for Los Feliz hillsides
Homes in Los Feliz sit on some of the steeper, more characterful lots in the area, and the best pool is the one engineered around them. We start with a real read of the grade, the soil, the access for excavation and the gunite rig, the setbacks, and the view you may want to capture from a hillside perch. Those realities decide what the pool can and should be.
We design for how you will actually use the pool, whether that is a shallow shelf for the family, a lap-friendly shape, or a pool and spa terraced to take in the view down the slope. The depth profile, the steps, the benches, and the features all get planned with you before we break ground.
Because we engineer and build what we draw, the plan we hand you is one we know we can build on a Los Feliz hillside without expensive surprises. Solving the structure first is what keeps a steep-lot project moving and the budget honest.
How a Los Feliz build goes
A pool build in Los Feliz follows the order a hillside demands. It opens with a design consult, a walk of the yard, and a soils read, then a structural plan and a written price. Once you approve the design, we pull the permits, finalize the engineering, and stage the access for the dig, which on a steep lot is often the hardest part of the job.
From there the build moves through excavation, retaining where the grade requires it, steel, plumbing, and the gunite shell, then the tile, coping, plaster, and deck. On a slope each phase has to be braced and supported before the next can go in, and one crew owning the whole sequence keeps the project moving instead of stalling.
We finish with the equipment startup, a water balance, the final inspection, and a walk-through that shows you how to run and care for your new pool. Throughout, we keep you posted on progress.
A nearby crew you can count on
Burbank Pool Builders is a licensed, bonded, and insured design-build pool company, and Los Feliz hillside lots are core to the work we do. You deal with the crew that actually engineers and builds the pool, not a broker handing your job to whoever bids lowest. We are still here for the warranty, the service, and the next project.
We put the structural plan and the price in writing up front, handle the soils work, engineering, and permits, and build every phase to last. Most of our work comes from neighbors who watched us do it right next door.
If you are planning a pool in Los Feliz, call 424-421-3775 for a free design consultation and an honest, engineered plan for your hillside backyard.
Your whole Los Feliz pool construction, one crew
Whatever your Los Feliz pool project needs, one crew handles it: building a new pool, pool renovation, pool remodels, pool resurfacing, building the deck, heater and salt systems. We carry every job from the first inspection through the work to a documented walk-through.
We serve Los Feliz alongside nearby Studio City, CA, pool construction in Sherman Oaks, pool construction in North Hollywood, Toluca Lake, CA, and the rest of the Los Angeles area. Typed pool remodeling near me into a search? Here we are. Visit the home page for more, or call 424-421-3775.