The Gib-San Process

Gib-San prides itself for its depth of professional resources to take your vision and turn it into a spectacular pool and landscape creation. The Gib-San process starts with an On-site Client Meeting. One of our Design Consultants works with you to establish an understanding of your needs, vision and budget. Next is the Design Process where they discuss your vision and conceptually bring it to life in a detailed plan. Our Designers are skilled at interpreting and capturing your vision into a design plan.

Based on their vast experience, they can shed light on features and materials that will compliment your home to complete the space in a strategic manner. A Plan Presentation meeting is best conducted in one of our Creation Centre’s.  At this time, samples of materials may be reviewed and pictures of design features will provide a comprehensive understanding of the final plan. This is the basis of the Selection Process at which time we will work together to finalize the design and materials.

After the design is solidified, the plan is then refined by our internal Design Team that prepares it for the Construction Process. A Project Manager will be assigned to your project and be responsible for your project until completion. They will be your one point of contact for the duration of the project to answer any questions you might have from timing to design features. They will be there to support you every step of the project to provide clarity, trust and results.

Custom Concrete Pools

The design possibilities of concrete pools are infinite – with a wide range of features from uniquely shaped steps and tanning ledges to spas, vanishing edges, fountains, beach entries and even islands. In-floor cleaning systems, ozone and UV sanitation as well as special lighting features are becoming more and more popular.

A concrete pool is also an excellent investment for your home. It adds intrinsic value with its beauty, but also historically it has been proven to add value simply by the relative rising replacement value of building custom concrete over the years. Concrete is more expensive than vinyl due to the materials required as well as durability and design features. Estate homes opt most often for concrete pools considered more in keeping with higher estate architectural standards.

A concrete pool is built by shooting a specially formulated concrete mixture under a high velocity over a web of structural steel bars. It is the commonly accepted standard of pneumatic applied concrete used in most major construction from bridges, tunnels, high rise buildings to swimming pools. It is premixed to verify specific requirements at a sophisticated batch plant prior to application to yield the correct PSI. Engineers agree and certify the greatest yield of strength in concrete is achieved when pneumatically applied concrete is sourced from a batch plant. Gib-San has been applying shotcrete for than 50 years and the results speak for themselves. A commonly asked question by many of our clients has been what is, “Gunite”? In simple terms, Gunite is a dry mix whereby it is hand batched on the site and water is added at the nozzle. Gunite application has been generally abandoned within our industry due to many variables but primarily the inability to have batch quality control. The most widely used application for concrete swimming pools is Shotcrete.