Real, Michigan-specific advice on building, owning and remodeling a gunite pool — from sixty-eight years of doing it.
The honest 2026 answer: Anderson Brothers Pools owns every piece of equipment that touches your pool — the excavator, the steel bender, the gunite rig, the compressors, the plumbing trucks,…
Read moreThe honest 2026 answer: Michigan adopts the International Residential Code (IRC), which means every residential pool deeper than 24 inches needs a barrier — in practice, a 4-foot minimum fence…
Read moreThe honest 2026 answer: roughly three out of four new Anderson Brothers gunite pools ship with a salt chlorine generator. Not because salt is some miracle product — it isn't…
Read moreThe honest 2026 answer for a Southeast Michigan gunite pool: a 400K BTU natural gas heater is the right answer for about 80% of homeowners we work with. Heat pumps…
Read moreThe honest 2026 answer: if you want to swim by Memorial Day weekend in Southeast Michigan, your pool needs to be uncovered, balanced, and heating by the first week of…
Read moreQuick answer for spring 2026: if you sign in late April or early May, you're realistically swimming in late July or August this summer — assuming a clean permit, no…
Read morePool design trends are mostly slow-moving. The shapes and finishes we built in 2018 are mostly the shapes and finishes we'll build in 2030. But every year a handful of…
Read moreThe most common pool-shape mistake we see is the same one we'd make ourselves if we shopped on Pinterest first: falling in love with a shape that looks great in…
Read moreBuilding a pool in Oakland County requires permits — usually a residential pool permit, an electrical permit, and a fence/barrier permit, plus inspections at specific build stages. Some townships add…
Read moreThe honest 2026 answer: most custom gunite pool projects we build across Southeast Michigan land between $80,000 and $200,000. Smaller, simpler builds come in below that. Signature designs with full…
Read moreWe design, build, remodel and service custom pools across Southeast Michigan from our Wixom shop. A few of the cities we work in most often: