From the Ground Up Pools LLC

Who they are

From The Ground Up Pools works out of Seminole in Pinellas County. Their Florida contractor license, CPC1459557, was issued in January 2021 and is current — five years, so an established young company rather than a brand new one. The website is much newer than the license, registered only in August 2025, which is the ordinary sequence for a builder who traded on word of mouth first and got round to a proper site later. They describe themselves as a premier pool builder, which is marketing rather than a position anyone holds on the record. Their customers refer to the owner by first name throughout, which is usually the mark of a small operation where you deal with the same person from quote to handover.

What they build

New pool construction, renovation of existing pools, repairs, ongoing pool service, spas and hot tubs, water features, screen enclosures and outdoor living work. Screen enclosures are worth noting because relatively few builders here list them, and in Florida they often decide whether a pool actually gets used through the summer. None of the eight lines has a page of its own, but they publish twenty-four project photographs, which is a full set and the most useful thing on the site for judging finished work.

Where they work

Seminole, and they publish their own written pages for Clearwater, St. Petersburg and Tampa — three places, each addressed as itself rather than a name dropped into a template. That is a modest but genuine documented service area across Pinellas and Hillsborough, and a short honest list is worth more than a long invented one. They keep weekday hours and are closed at weekends. Their site is the most actively maintained on this list: they were writing on it within the last few days, an article about pool water features in Tampa Bay. A builder still updating their own website in August is a builder who is trading.

What the record shows

A clean 5.0 on Google from twenty reviews, comfortably above the 4.52 Florida average for the builders we hold. Twenty reviews is a real sample rather than a handful — past the point where friends and family could account for it — and not a single customer has rated them below top marks. Five separate customers name their professionalism and three the quality of what was built, and both themes clear our floor, which on twenty reviews takes genuine consistency. The specific accounts are about the things that go wrong most often elsewhere on this list: being kept in the loop throughout, and being able to make decisions confidently because the answers were straight. There are no negative reviews at all and no complaint theme to report. The honest caution is about size rather than quality: five years of trading and twenty reviews is a shorter record than the twenty-year firms here, and a small operation built around one person carries the risk that comes with that — if they are busy, you wait, and there is less depth behind them if something goes wrong mid-build. Nothing on the record suggests it has. On the evidence available this is one of the cleanest profiles on the list, and the thing to ask about is capacity and timing rather than competence.