Southern Gunite, Inc.

Who they are

Southern Gunite works from Weisman Way in West Palm Beach on Florida pool contractor license CPC056953 — current since September 1997, twenty-nine years on the state's register. They are a shell contractor: their own headline is about gunite pool shells, and their reviews describe them arriving on other builders' sites to shoot the shell. One review says so plainly, describing them as subcontracted by another pool company. If you are a homeowner, you will most likely meet them as your builder's subcontractor rather than as the company you hired.

What the reviews say

Google has them at 3.9 from 16 reviews — around six tenths below the Florida average of 4.52 across the 346 builders on this directory. Sixteen reviews is a small record, and four of them are one or two stars.

That comparison needs a caveat this directory rarely has to make: a trade subcontractor collects reviews from a different population than a builder does. Their customers are pool companies; the people writing here are largely homeowners on whose property they appeared, which is not the same relationship at all.

The positive account is exactly that shape — a homeowner impressed by the crew that came, subcontracted by another builder, to shoot a small shell. The complaints are the same shape inverted: holes in a shell and culverts destroyed by trucks entering and leaving, and separately a homeowner who found a crew member fishing in their garden at half past seven in the morning instead of working next door.

Read the record as being about site conduct and finish quality on other people's jobs, because that is what it describes.

What they build

Gunite pool shells, commercial pools, spas and water features, from West Palm Beach. Their published services are narrower than most firms here — no renovation, servicing or outdoor living — which fits a shell specialist. 20 photographs are published.

Before you sign

If you are a builder engaging them, the record speaks to site conduct: agree access routes and make good on damage in writing, since destroyed culverts appear in it. If you are a homeowner and they are arriving as your builder's subcontractor, the contract is your builder's problem — but you are entitled to ask who is shooting your shell and to raise the same points. Inspect the shell before anything covers it, and photograph it. The license has run since 1997; insurance is a question for whoever holds the contract.