Custom Heritage Pools build behind a Charleston Lowcountry home

Charleston’s pool experts since 2004

Charleston's Elite Pool Builder

Custom concrete and fiberglass pools, designed for your lot and engineered for Lowcountry soil. Book a free on-site consultation.

  • Pool & Spa News Top 50 Builder 2021–2024
  • SC's first Master CBP
  • 40+ industry awards
  • Family-owned since 2004
Charleston’sElitePool Builder

Custom concrete and fiberglass pools across the Charleston Lowcountry.

Positioning

A pool that will outlive the mortgage

For homeowners in the Charleston Lowcountry, Heritage Pools designs and builds custom fiberglass and concrete pools engineered for the hardest sites in the region. We are the builder other builders call about soil, elevation and tight lots.

Daniel Island, Mount Pleasant, Johns Island, Sullivan’s, Kiawah, Summerville and downtown. We work with custom home builders, architects and landscape architects who need a pool partner who will not create a problem on their site.

2004
Founded in Charleston
40+
Industry awards
1st
Master CBP in SC
3
Build methods mastered

The invisible expertise

Three claims we can defend anywhere

Small spaces — Heritage Pools build in the Charleston Lowcountry

Pillar 01

Small spaces

Downtown courtyards, deep narrow lots, zero-lot-line yards, no crane access. A 10' x 40' lap pool on Queen Street. A 10' x 16' plunge in a side yard. Where others say it will not fit, we survey and make it fit.

Designed to the inch

Elevated pools — Heritage Pools build in the Charleston Lowcountry

Pillar 02

Elevated pools

Raised and semi-elevated structures with engineered retaining walls, marsh-front grade changes, and pools that sit level with a raised porch. Structural work most builders in this market will not quote.

Engineered elevation

Charleston soil — Heritage Pools build in the Charleston Lowcountry

Pillar 03

Charleston soil

High water table, soft clay, sand and fill. Our builds account for hydrostatic pressure, bearing capacity and settlement from the first site visit, which is why the shell still holds its line 20 years later.

Built for Lowcountry ground

Build methods

Engineered, not improvised

Concrete

Fully custom geometry, unlimited size, the widest range of finishes and features.

Fiberglass

Faster installs, smooth non-porous surface, ideal for tight access and small yards.

Heritage I-Beam

Our own construction method, in the ground since 2005. Proprietary, and named as such.

Service & renovation

Top 50 service company. We maintain what we build, and rescue what others built.

Design. Build. Enjoy.

Here is exactly what happens next

  1. Step 01

    Design

    We survey the site first: access, elevation, water table, setbacks. Then we design to the inch and itemise the shell, the plumbing and the schedule.

  2. Step 02

    Build

    One crew, one superintendent, engineered steel and shell. Inspected at every stage, with your yard and your neighbors treated as part of the job.

  3. Step 03

    Enjoy

    Startup, orientation and a service team that answers. Twenty years of referrals is the only credential that matters.

Award-winning work

Charleston swims here

Marsh-front elevations, downtown side yards and backyards built to hold their line. Select any project to see it full size.

Proof

Earned, not claimed

South Carolina’s first and only Master Certified Building Professional, since 2022. Pool & Spa News Top 50 Builder, 2021 through 2024.

“They told us what the site required before they told us what it cost. Ten years on, the shell has not moved an inch.”
Homeowner · Mount Pleasant

A family business still run by Michael and Jessie Gesmond. It started with vinyl liners out of the back of a Honda Accord in 2004. The first complete Heritage pool went in the ground in 2005.

Request a consultation

Your backyard. Reimagined.

Tell us where you are and what the yard is doing. We will look at access, grade and soil, then talk through what fits and what it takes to build it properly.

Charleston, South Carolina · Family-owned since 2004

We build across the Charleston Lowcountry. No obligation, no sales script.