Gunite and vinyl liner pool design, renovation, and full-service maintenance across Suffolk and Nassau. One team handles your project from the first 3D rendering through your final walkthrough.
The pool industry's open secret is that nine out of ten failed pools come from work that nobody stood next to. A sub digs the hole. A different sub shoots the gunite. A third sets the tile. A fourth comes back to deal with the plumbing the first three forgot about. By the time something cracks, leaks, or fails, the builder you signed the contract with is impossible to reach.
We started Legacy because that model produces bad pools. The shells we shot ten years ago are still tight. The plumbing we ran in 2015 is still serviced by the same people who ran it. That continuity — same crew, same hands, every phase — is the entire reason a Legacy pool holds together for fifty years instead of falling apart in fifteen.
From the first shovel to the weekly chlorine check ten years later — one team, one phone number, one crew responsible for every joint, every line, every finish.
Every photo on this site is a Legacy project. No stock. No staged shots. If you want to drive by a finished pool in your area, ask — we'll set it up.
Same crew that designed our pool was the same crew that shot the gunite, set the tile, and started it up. Three years in, the plaster is still perfect and we still call the same number when we need anything. That's how a pool company is supposed to work.
Building a pool in Sag Harbor is not the same job as building one in Dix Hills. The water table is different. The permit office runs by different rules. Even the sand under the shell behaves differently. We have built pools across Long Island, from Suffolk to Nassau, for years, and we know what each town needs from a builder.
Pools in East Hampton, Southampton, Bridgehampton, Sag Harbor, and Westhampton Beach need to handle a high water table, summer-only owners, and strict town review boards. We have built and serviced pools in all five towns. We know the permit timelines, the soil tests each board wants, and the contractors the town inspectors trust.
From Lloyd Harbor and Cold Spring Harbor down to Oyster Bay and Old Westbury, we work on estate properties where the pool is one piece of a larger landscape plan. Crews here have to share the site with landscape architects, irrigation teams, and stone masons. We are used to running that kind of coordinated job.
Our home base is Smithtown, and most weeks we are also on a job in Dix Hills or Huntington. These towns have a mix of older pools that need full renovation and new builds for first-time pool owners. We do a lot of both. Smithtown's town hall knows us by name, which helps when a permit needs to move.
Outside the towns above, we still take projects across Suffolk and Nassau when the job fits our crew schedule. We have done work in Northport, St. James, Stony Brook, Melville, Bay Shore, Babylon, Massapequa, and most of the towns in between. If you do not see your town listed, call us and we will tell you straight if we can take the project this season.
Pool building is a trade where the difference between a great pool and a leaking one comes down to who actually does the work. Here is who Legacy is, what we are certified for, and what that means for your project.
Legacy holds the Pool & Hot Tub Alliance Certified Building Professional credential. PHTA is the national trade group that sets the safety and quality rules for the pool industry. The CBP credential means we have passed written tests on pool structure, plumbing, code, and finishes, and that we keep our training current every year. Most pool builders on Long Island do not have it.
Our owner has been building pools on Long Island for more than fifteen years. That is not fifteen years of running a business while a different crew does the work. That is fifteen years of being on the job site, in the dig, setting the steel, shooting the gunite, and finishing the deck. The pools we built ten years ago are still tight today.
We carry full New York State contractor licensing and the insurance every reputable pool builder on Long Island must hold. We will show you the paperwork before we ever quote a job. If a contractor cannot or will not show you their license and insurance certificate, do not let them dig a hole on your property.
The biggest reason pools fail is that the people who promised you the pool are not the people who actually built it. A typical pool job is split across five or six subcontractors. When something goes wrong six months later, nobody owns it. At Legacy, the same crew you meet on day one is on the site for the dig, the shell, the plumbing, the finish, and the startup. One number, one team, one warranty.
We do not build a pool and walk away. We open it every spring, we close it every fall, we balance the water every week if that is what you want, and we are the ones who answer the phone when a heater quits on a Friday night. Most of our maintenance clients are people whose pools were built by someone else. That is fine — once a pool is in the ground, what matters is who keeps it running.
Every photo on this website is from a Legacy project on Long Island. We do not buy stock photos of pools we did not build. If you want to see more of our work, ask, and we will set up a drive-by of a finished pool in your area so you can see the quality with your own eyes.
If you are about to spend the price of a car or a small house on a backyard pool, you should have straight answers to every question on your mind. Here are the ones we hear most.
A basic vinyl liner pool starts around $65,000 to $85,000 installed. A standard gunite pool with a paver deck runs $110,000 to $160,000. Premium gunite builds with vanishing edges, spas, custom tile, and full hardscape can land between $200,000 and $500,000 or more. Long Island prices run higher than the national average because labor, permits, and material delivery cost more here than in most of the country. We give an honest range during your first consultation and never hide costs in the fine print.
A vinyl liner pool takes about four to six weeks of active work once permits are approved. A custom gunite pool typically takes ten to fourteen weeks. The biggest variable is the town permit office. Some Long Island towns like Smithtown turn permits around in three weeks. Hamptons review boards can take eight to twelve weeks just to issue the approval. We build the permit timeline into our schedule and tell you up front when your specific town will likely sign off, so you know what to expect.
Gunite pools are built from sprayed concrete reinforced with steel. The shell will last fifty years or more if it is built right. You can shape a gunite pool any way you want, including tanning shelves, spas, vanishing edges, and curves. Vinyl liner pools have a steel or polymer frame with a printed vinyl sheet stretched over it. They cost less up front and install faster, but the liner needs to be replaced every eight to twelve years. For most premium Long Island homes, gunite is the better long-term investment.
Yes, every Long Island town requires a permit for any inground pool. We pull the permit for you as part of every build. We are familiar with the review processes in all our service towns, including Smithtown, East Hampton, Southampton, Dix Hills, Huntington, and the Gold Coast villages. New York State also requires permanent fencing around every inground pool with a self-closing self-latching gate. We coordinate the fence inspection with your town as part of the closeout, so you pass on the first try.
You call the number on this website and we come fix it. The same crew that built your pool is the one that comes out for warranty work. There is no passing the call to a subcontractor who has moved on to another job. Our gunite shells carry a structural warranty, our equipment carries the manufacturer warranty plus our labor warranty, and our workmanship is backed by a written warranty that we hand you at closeout. We have been at this long enough that we are still servicing pools we built ten and fifteen years ago.
Yes. About half of our renovation work is on pools we did not originally build. Older Long Island pools from the 1980s and 1990s are usually solid structurally but need new tile, new coping, new plaster, updated plumbing, and modern equipment. We can also convert an outdated vinyl pool to a fully replaced liner with new tracks, or take an old gunite shell down to bare concrete and refinish it. Renovations are also a chance to add a spa, a tanning shelf, or a paver deck.
We do both. Our weekly service crew tests your water, balances the chemicals, vacuums the floor, brushes the walls, empties the skimmer baskets, checks the equipment, and writes up a short report each visit. We do not believe in just dumping chlorine in and leaving. Most of our weekly clients are in Smithtown, Dix Hills, Huntington, and along the North Shore where homeowners use the pool from May through October. We also handle one-time openings, closings, and emergency calls for non-contract customers.
The biggest pool companies on Long Island are good companies, but they are big. Your pool will be built by a rotating set of subcontractors who do not know you and do not stay around after closeout. We are smaller on purpose. The owner is on every job. The crew that breaks ground is the crew that finishes the pool. The phone gets answered by someone who knows what is going on at your site. If you want a project where one team is responsible from the first phone call to the warranty work five years later, that is what Legacy does.
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