Pool & Spa Remodeling in Seal Beach

City of Seal Beach Community Development Department, Building and Safety Division. The Building and Safety Division of the Community Development Department handles plan review, permit issuance and inspections, and building permit applications and plans can be submitted electronically. Seal Beach does not yet have a certified Local Coastal Program, and the zoning code's Coastal Development Permit chapter is still marked reserved, so coastal development permits remain with the California Coastal Commission inside the Coastal Zone, which the city's draft Land Use Plan describes as taking in Old Town and Surfside south of Pacific Coast Highway and the Marina Hill and Hellman Ranch area north of it. Before a pool's building permit issues, the city requires a written statement from a civil engineer registered in California certifying that construction will not harm neighboring structures, and in RLD-15 tracts with a legally constituted architectural committee, the city will not review plans for a building, fence, wall or pool until that committee has approved them. We prepare the drawings, make the submittal and handle plan-check corrections ourselves, so you are not the one chasing plan check.

Lots are small and regular. In the RLD-9 district the minimum interior lot is 5,000 square feet at 50 by 100 feet, and lot coverage is capped at 45 percent plus 5 percent for patio covers that are at least half open, while the Gold Coast stretch of Ocean Avenue between First and Eighth Streets is allowed 60 percent. Standard interior lots in Old Town's RHD-20 district measure 25 or 37.5 feet wide by 100 or 117.5 feet deep and back onto a 15-foot alley. For pools, the code limits the water area to 20 percent of a residential lot and 60 percent of the required rear yard, keeps the pool 50 feet from the front lot line, 10 feet from a street side line and 4 feet from interior side and rear lines, and sets the filter and heater at least 10 feet from a neighboring dwelling, or 8 feet with approved sound attenuation. One local condition that shapes the work: The city's draft Land Use Plan places most of Seal Beach at risk of liquefaction, and two faults of the Newport-Inglewood system, the Reservoir Hill fault and the Seal Beach fault, pass through the city, so the ground is worth understanding before a pool shell or new foundation is designed.

All of it, including Old Town, Gold Coast, Surfside Colony and The Hill. Our crews run every job out of our Cahuenga Pass base in Los Angeles, with our own people on site.

New pool construction: generally $70,000 to $150,000+ across Southern California. What moves it is size and shape, spa, water and fire features, decking material, automation, and how much access and grading the site needs. We give line-item pricing after seeing the site rather than quoting a number over the phone.

A straightforward replaster with new tile and coping usually runs three to five weeks. A full remodel that includes new decking, equipment and features typically runs eight to twelve weeks. Site access and permit timing are the two things that move that most.

Most new pool builds run about three to five months from permit to first swim. Hillside sites that need engineered retaining or difficult access sit at the longer end of that range.

If the shell and plumbing are sound and you only dislike the surface, replastering with new tile and coping is the efficient choice. If the equipment is aging, the deck is cracked or the shape no longer suits how you use the yard, a full remodel costs less than doing it in two separate phases.

Yes. Our own crews handle the build rather than passing it to a rotating set of subs, which is why the schedule and the finish standard stay consistent.