Custom gunite build
Spas built in gunite alongside the pool, in any shape, size, and depth, with no factory-mold limits.
A built-in spa turns a pool into a year-round retreat. WETYR Pools designs custom gunite spas, spillover spas, and standalone hot tubs engineered as part of the whole landscape.
A custom spa is one of the most-used features of any pool project. Designed and built in gunite alongside the pool, a spa shares the structure, the equipment, and the stonework, so it feels like one cohesive design rather than a tub set nearby. We build spillover spas, raised spas, and standalone hot tubs to suit the property and the way you want to relax.
WETYR Pools handles spas & hot tubs as a craftsman-led, design-build team. The people who plan your project are the people who build it and stand behind it, with no quality lost in the handoffs between separate companies. One team, one standard, and one point of accountability from the first conversation through long-term care.
A swimming pool has seasons. Even in a warm climate, there are cooler stretches, cooler evenings, and times of year when the water is simply less inviting. A spa has no such seasons. Warm, enveloping, and ready in any weather, a built-in spa is the feature that keeps a backyard in use when the pool itself is quiet, and it is, in many households, the single most-used part of the whole project.
A spa is also the feature that turns a pool from a daytime amenity into an evening ritual. It is where the day winds down, where conversation slows, where sore muscles ease after work or exercise. It draws people outside on a cool night when the pool alone would not. For its size and cost relative to the pool, a spa delivers an outsized share of the everyday enjoyment.
WETYR Pools designs spas as an integral part of the project, not an accessory chosen at the end. A spa that was designed with the pool shares its structure, its equipment, its finishes, and its stonework, and it reads as one deliberate composition. That integration is the difference between a spa that belongs and a tub that simply sits nearby.
Spas built in gunite alongside the pool, in any shape, size, and depth, with no factory-mold limits.
A raised spa that pours warm water into the pool, adding sound, motion, and architecture.
Correct depth, seating, jets, and ergonomics designed around how you actually want to soak.
Modern heating and automation so the spa is ready, warm, and controllable from your phone.
A spa can take several forms, and the right one depends on the pool, the site, and how you picture using it. These are the designs we build most.
The classic pairing: a raised spa set at the pool edge that continuously spills warm water down into the pool. The spillover adds the sound and motion of moving water, gives the pool architecture and a raised element, and ties the spa and pool into one design. It is the most popular spa style for good reason.
A spa can be raised above the deck for seating, presence, and a sense of retreat, or set flush with the deck and pool for a clean, continuous, modern look. The choice is both aesthetic and practical, and we design it to suit the home.
A spa does not require a pool. A standalone custom gunite spa, built in place, can be the centerpiece of a courtyard, a smaller yard, or a quiet garden retreat, with the same custom design and premium finishes as a full pool.
Whatever the style, the inside of the spa is engineered around the body: the depth, the bench and seating layout, the jet placement, and the ergonomics are all designed for how you actually want to soak, and the spa can carry lighting, automation, and water and fire features.
There is a real difference between a custom gunite spa and a portable, factory-molded hot tub dropped onto a deck. The portable tub is a self-contained appliance: limited to its mold's shape and size, visually separate from the pool, and destined to be replaced. A custom gunite spa is built in place as part of the pool's own structure, in any shape and size, with the same permanence as the pool itself.
Building the spa with the pool is also simply the right way to do it. The two can share an equipment pad, plumbing, heating, and automation, which is more efficient and more elegant than two separate systems. They share the same interior finish, the same waterline tile, the same coping and stonework. The spillover, the raised wall, the lighting, and any fire feature are all engineered into the structure from the first drawing. Trying to add a true built-in spa to a finished pool later is always more limited and more expensive.
This is the heart of the design-build advantage. Because WETYR Pools designs and constructs the whole project under one roof, the spa is resolved together with the pool, the deck, and the features, and the finished result is one integrated environment rather than a collection of separate purchases.
A spa is only as good as its readiness. The whole appeal is being able to step into warm water on a cool evening without planning hours ahead, and that depends on the heating and the controls. WETYR Pools specifies modern, efficient heating sized correctly to the spa, so it comes up to temperature in a reasonable time and holds it reliably.
Smart automation is what makes a spa genuinely effortless. With the spa integrated into a pool automation system, you can bring it up to temperature from your phone on the way home, so it is warm and waiting when you arrive. Schedules, spa modes, lighting, and any water or fire features are all handled from one app or panel, with no trip to the equipment pad and no valves to turn.
Efficiency is engineered in alongside the convenience. Correct heater sizing, a spa cover to hold heat, sensible insulation of the structure, and smart scheduling all reduce what the spa costs to run, so the comfort of a warm spa whenever you want it does not come with a heating bill that makes you hesitate. As with every WETYR project, the spa is presented in a clear, fixed, itemized proposal before any work begins.
Clear answers to the questions homeowners ask most.
If a spa appeals to you, yes, build it with the pool. A spa designed and built in gunite alongside the pool shares the structure, equipment, finishes, and stonework, costs less than adding one later, and reads as one cohesive design rather than a tub set nearby.
A spillover spa is a raised spa, usually at the pool edge, that continuously spills warm water down into the pool. It adds the sound and motion of moving water, gives the pool a raised architectural element, and visually ties the spa and pool together. It is the most popular spa style.
A portable hot tub is a factory-molded appliance dropped onto a deck, limited to its mold and destined to be replaced. A custom gunite spa is built in place as part of the pool's structure, in any shape and size, permanent, and fully integrated with the pool.
Yes. A standalone custom gunite spa can be the centerpiece of a courtyard, a smaller yard, or a garden retreat, built in place with the same custom design and premium finishes as a full pool.
With a correctly sized modern heater, a spa comes up to temperature in a reasonable time and holds it reliably. Integrated into smart automation, it can be warmed from your phone on the way home, so it is ready when you arrive.
Run efficiently, no. Correct heater sizing, a spa cover to retain heat, sensible insulation, and smart scheduling all keep running costs reasonable, so a warm spa whenever you want one does not come with a heating bill that makes you hesitate.
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