Ranked by license standing, permit history, review score, and profile completeness — 1 contractor tracked in Citrus County. No paid placements.
Citrus County has a smaller pool of local builders than most Florida counties, so these top picks are ranked on license standing, permit history, and real reviews to help you narrow it down fast.
Real, recent project photos from Citrus County's most-reviewed builders, pulled straight from their own profiles.
Citrus County builders draw an above-average amount of customer feedback — here's a real, recent sample, good and bad.
“Overall, the pool is exactly how I pictured it in my head, It’s my first pool so it was very exciting watching it. Come together. All the workers were courteous, polite cleaned up after themselves every day when they came here to work the rock waterfall feature exceeded my expectations. Well, actually the whole pool…”
“We are very pleased with our new pool service person Katia is very knowledgeable. When she took over our pool it was a mess had so much lime build up . With in two weeks she had it back to looking new. I would highly recommend Katia has your pool service person. Thanks aloha pools…”
“My mom Jenny Feeney has her pool serviced by the tech Brandon. I just want to let you know he’s very nice and knowledgeable of all the mechanics of the system. Please disregard complaints towards my mom’s technician. For pool at 9460 N Eubanks terrace, Dunnellon Fl. From my perspective he is very friendly and…”
“Aloha Custom Pool weekly pool cleaning service is the best I have used in the Crystal River area. I highly recommend their pool cleaning service! Alex is an outstanding professional who is reliable and knowledgeable. He works will with my Airbnb renters. I have only had one occasion to need Aloha Custom Pool equipment repair…”
“I’ve built two pools with Aloha and I regret it. We built our first pool in 2020 but sold our house in 2022. So we decided to use Aloha again. I’ve had this pool for 4 years now and I’ve had so many issues. Coping breaking off, tile popping off. They were great the first…”
A closer look at how much pool-building activity our directory has tracked in Citrus County so far — a smaller sample than most Florida counties.
Citrus County is currently home to 1 pool contractor in our directory — well below the statewide average of roughly 7.9 contractors per Florida county. Contractors here have racked up an average of 246 customer reviews apiece, well above the statewide average of 84 — a reasonable proxy for how active and in-demand local pool builders are, since review volume tends to track real project volume over time.
What the license and permit data tells you about builders serving Citrus County, and what still needs a manual check.
100% of contractors serving Citrus County (1 of 1) currently hold an active Certified Pool Contractor (CPC) license on file with the Florida DBPR — roughly in line with the statewide rate of 99%. The rest may be unlicensed, expired, pending renewal, or simply not yet verified in our system, so confirming a contractor's license status directly with the state before signing anything is always worth the five minutes it takes. Building permit history is one of the more reliable signals of real, ongoing work: contractors serving Citrus County average roughly 36 permits each, well below the statewide average of 94.7 per contractor — a stronger signal than a star badge on a homepage, which anyone can add regardless of whether it reflects real, permitted work.
Praise like "knowledgeable" comes up again and again in Citrus County customer reviews, plus a few habits worth adopting before you hire anywhere in Florida.
Across the customer reviews we've indexed for pool builders serving Citrus County, the most frequently repeated praise themes are knowledgeable, recommend, design. Patterns like these, repeated across many independent reviews from different platforms, tend to be more trustworthy than any single five-star testimonial — look for the same few themes showing up again and again in a contractor's review history before you hire.
Before you hire a pool contractor anywhere in Florida, a few habits go a long way: verify the CPC or CBC license number directly on the DBPR's public license lookup, ask for the contractor's permit history (or pull it yourself from the county building department), read a mix of recent and older reviews rather than just the top-rated ones, and get at least two or three quotes in writing before committing. Florida's pool construction industry has real regulatory teeth — licensing boards and county permitting offices — and using that public data is the fastest way to separate an established, accountable builder from someone who just built a nice-looking website.
Every pool builder we currently track in Citrus County — a shorter, more manageable list than in busier Florida counties.
Looking at a different Florida county? Jump straight to its own ranked list.
Prefer to compare builders by city instead of by county? Every qualifying Florida city we track is listed below.
Add your business for free, or claim your existing profile to keep your info accurate and start showing up when people in Citrus County search for a pool builder.