Carrollton, TX
(972) 416-4487

Carrollton, Texas since 1991

Nobody fills the pool for ten days.

That is the whole difference. New plaster gets ten days to cure before any water goes in, then four more weeks of us coming back to hold the chemistry while it sets. Renovation, repair, leak detection and a store on Hebron Pkwy where the tile is on the wall in front of you.

Thirty-four years on North Texas pools

A family shop, not a franchise with a call centre.

We have worked out of Carrollton since 1991, on pools from Coppell to Richardson. The technicians are licensed under TDLR #433, the store on Hebron Pkwy tests your water for free at the counter, and the warranty is printed at the bottom of every proposal we write, before you sign it.

Trading since

1991

Trading since

From 303 Google reviews

4.6

From 303 Google reviews

Licensed and Insured

TDLR #433

Licensed and Insured

10-day plaster cure before filling

10 days

10-day plaster cure before filling

Cleaning and maintenance

Or we just keep it clean for you.

We scrub the walls, vacuum as needed, empty the skimmer and pump baskets and balance the chemistry. Use your own chemicals, or ours, charged by the pound.

  • One-time pool cleaning

    A single visit. Useful before a party, or after a storm drops half the yard in the water.

  • Pool drain and cleaning

    Drain it down, clean the surface properly, refill and rebalance.

  • Weekly pool cleaning

    The same day every week, all year, so the water never gets away from you.

The part that costs us money

Ten days of curing, then four weeks of coming back.

Most companies remodel your pool, fill it, and leave. Plaster that is filled and swum in straight away goes rough, stains and loses colour years early. So we wait ten days before the water goes in, and for the four weeks after that we come back to keep the chemistry balanced while the surface finishes hardening. It is slower, it is written into the proposal, and it is why the finish lasts.

Finished water

Six backyards, roughly fifteen minutes apart.

Real jobs in Carrollton and the towns around it. Scroll sideways through them.

Freeform pool with a raised round spa spilling into it, flagstone coping and a stained cedar cabana behind

01 / Cabana

Freeform pool, raised spa, spillover

A stained cedar cabana, flagstone coping and a round spa set into the pool's own curve. The spillover is the join between the two, and it is the detail that dates a build fastest when the tile behind it goes.

Geometric pool with a raised square spa in travertine spilling over, on a large stamped concrete deck

02 / Geometric

Square spa, travertine, stamped deck

Straight lines are unforgiving. The coping course and the waterline tile have to hold a line across the whole run, and that is where a rushed resurface shows up first.

Rectangular pool with a raised octagonal spa faced in stacked stone, cedar fence behind

03 / Waterline

Stacked stone and a cedar run

An octagonal spa faced in stacked stone with a stainless rail into the shallow end. Behind it, a board-on-board cedar fence and a Bradford pear, which is about as North Texas as a backyard gets.

Pool at night with a lit stacked stone waterfall, palms uplit and a bubbler glowing green in the sun shelf

04 / After dark

Colour lighting and a rock fall

LED lighting and a bubbler in the sun shelf. Lights are one of the cheapest things to change in a remodel and one of the biggest differences after sundown.

Close view of a raised spa in travertine and flagstone spilling into a pool, with a service hose in the water

05 / Mid-service

The part nobody photographs

A raised spa in travertine with a hose still in the water. Most of what we do looks like this before it looks like anything else.

Completed backyard pool with a stacked stone waterfall, flagstone coping, cedar fence and palms

06 / Backyard

Stone waterfall, flagstone edge

A stacked stone fall built into the far edge, palms at the corner and a chiminea on the deck. Finished work, photographed by us, in a yard about fifteen minutes from the store.

Racks of pool tile, stone and plaster samples in the remodeling center inside the Carrollton store

Retail Store, 1616 W Hebron Pkwy, Suite 104

You can hold the tile before you choose it.

Behind the counter there is a remodeling center: a wall of pool tile, plaster and coping samples, plus an outdoor kitchen build you can stand in front of. Deciding on a finish off a phone screen is how people end up disappointed in June. Come and pick it up.

The same shop carries chemicals, pumps, filters, heaters, robotic cleaners, liners and genuine replacement parts, and tests your water at the counter for free.

Before you call anyone

Five things that mean you are losing water.

A leak rarely announces itself. It shows up on the water bill, or in a patch of grass that never dries out. If any of these are true, it is worth a phone call before the deck gets involved.

How we find it
  1. 01

    More than a quarter inch a day

    Mark the tile line and check it in the morning. Evaporation alone will not do that.

  2. 02

    Cracks in the surface or the deck

    A crack that moves is a structural question, not a cosmetic one.

  3. 03

    Air bubbles from the return lines

    Air getting in usually means water is getting out somewhere on the suction side.

  4. 04

    Soft or soggy ground near the pool

    Grass that stays wet in a Texas August is the plumbing telling on itself.

  5. 05

    A water bill that jumped

    The auto-fill hides a leak perfectly right up until the bill arrives.

Three hundred and three reviews, and they all name a person.

4.6 out of 5 on Google

My pool pump motor went out - I called A-Affordable and they immediately got me on the schedule for the next day. They had a motor in stock. I also needed a filter clean and salt cell clean which they tech did. He was very good and took his time and was very thorough. I will definitely use again.
Helen Clarke on Google
A Affordable pool and spa did an excellent job finding and fixing a leak and repairing our skimmers in a timely manner for a reasonable price. We were especially impressed with the professionalism of the men sent to do the job. Highly recommend this company.
Sarah Vandermeer on Google
We've had great experiences with A-Affordable but we have to take a moment and rave about David specifically. He is extremely professional, very thorough, working non-stop to resolve our issues. He is also great about keeping us informed of the progress and answering any questions we may have. Whatever they are paying him, it is not enough.
Catherine Chambers on Google

Straight answers

What people ask before they book.

Pool plastering runs $6,000 to $16,000. A complete remodel covering plaster, tile, coping, deck and water features runs $30,000 to $90,000, depending on the plaster you choose, the size of the pool and the scope of the work. We price the work up front and itemise it.

Repairs take one to three days. Remodelling takes three to ten weeks depending on the weather and the scope. Texas gives us usable weather in every season, but any season can bring a delay.

Because plaster that is filled and swum in straight away does not last. We let it cure for ten days, then come back for four more weeks to keep the water balanced while the surface finishes setting. That is what protects the colour and keeps the finish smooth.

Plaster, tile, coping and leaks. Those four account for most of what we are called out to.
The A-Affordable Pool and Spa storefront on West Hebron Parkway in Carrollton, sign reading The Backyard Place

The Backyard Place

Carrollton, and everywhere within about half an hour of it.

Carrollton, Plano, Frisco, Lewisville, Flower Mound, Coppell, Richardson, Garland and North Dallas. We also work in Addison, Farmers Branch and The Colony. If you are close and not on that list, call and ask.

Store and office
1616 W Hebron Pkwy, Suite 104
Carrollton, TX 75010
Open
Mon - Fri: 9:00 am - 6:00 pmSaturday: 9:00 am - 4:00 pmSunday: Closed