of course summer sun summer fun and
laying poolside ah yes nothing like the
cool pool like that and there's one
local company that has been around for
years and years and years but they are
gaining national fame as the pool kings
let's meet them now It's Showtime
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well this hole in the ground lined with
rebar is going to be a beautiful pool to
survive the hot San Antonio summer
thanks to San Antonio's own pool kings
Keith's ours pools and I'm wondering
what are you doing with the hunk of PVC
well we've got a lot of work to do here
today Mike but the one thing is you
can't work on one of these pools and
lift you're a king right so you need to
be knighted oh do I need it like you won
me please for me okay okay okay so like
we met you
and so what does this mean now that I'm
knighted we're gonna give you a gunite
hose let you shoot some concrete here a
little bit it was too good to be true I
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keep Stars pools your pool King now in
San Antonio a little history about this
company because it's like the number one
if you want sure hold the ground filled
with water call you guys right yeah
absolutely you know we're pretty good at
that keith is actually my uncle he
started the business in 1985 and it's
been growing ever since it's it's a it's
a really really large company we have
you know over 400 actual employees we
bought pools in-house with our own crew
so all these guys that you see out here
working actually worked for the company
instead of like subcontractors so it's a
pretty impressive operation that keith
has you know come up with and we're just
so lucky to be a part of pool Kings and
be able to do this show and and take
kind of what we do on a daily basis and
kind of put it on TV for people to see
what's harder putting a pool in or being
on TV
being on TV for sure you know you know
what this is uh faziz even this is like
clockwork to us but you know being able
to put it on TV and making it look right
cuz takes two and a half three months
Julie to build a pool to take that and
condense it down to 22 minutes it's
gonna be on TV you know it takes a
little bit of work it's a challenge and
Tony you do most of the designing of a
lot of pools so we you know somebody
let's back our pool it can be simple
Abra but on pool Kings I mean this is a
national TV audience right you just kind
of just dream big and then go for it
well we really tried to get the take of
what the client wants what what are they
gonna use this pool for you know water
features what's their home gonna look
like and through all of our
communication with them we put that plan
on paper do a 3d design and really just
get see if they love it you know with
these pool Kings pools you know there's
usually a lot of elevation they do want
something a little bit over-the-top so
it makes our job a lot of fun to come up
with something kind of off-the-wall just
recently I had a client who was already
getting ready to build his pool solve
something on pool Kings and wanted us to
stop we had to redesign his pool and
implement some of the stuff in there so
really there is a lot of that a lot of
competition or things that are seeing
that clients want implemented into their
pool
you're on site when you're shooting pool
canes and here's one of your pools and
how to get to this point here if you're
ready to build with concrete
how long has taken this is taken we're
about at the halfway point here we're
about a month into this project here
we've dug a hole we've plumbed it we put
our steel in so today is actually today
we're gonna put some concrete in this
and it's really going to start taking
shape and looking like a pool
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like this
that's harder than it looks
you got it without thumbs I get to put
my initials in the concrete
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initials course that didn't last very
long dating concrete mark question for
you though and I learned yesterday which
is harder to make that was a nice
rectangular pool or one that's got all
the you know pretty kidney shaped
something like that which would be
harder to do rectangular why I don't
know it happened because that's what Ted
told you but it has to be perfectly
perfectly square and they said if it's
not perfectly square in the lie and the
walls perfect people will notice that
you'll you'll spot it a mile away so
quick thanks shout out and thank you to
Juma entertainment the producers of the
pool Kings for all that video and
throwing that idea out to us also
Keith's ours pools has an open house
coming up Monday from 11:00 to 3:00 p.m.
you go out there check it out and maybe
I'm sort of taking a hole in the
backyard there so yeah pool Kings that
episode is going to air new episodes
gonna air Monday June 3rd 8 p.m. on the
DIY Network so very cool you look like a
pro but somewhere even in the concrete
my name is gonna yes yes you're so proud
of that