Brightwater Pools & Construction

Brightwater Pools & Construction Locally owned and operated company specializing in the installation and service of inground swimming

Brightwater Pools is an award winning pool construction company with over 40 years of experience in the swimming pool industry. We are proud to offer extensive knowledge and superior quality, as well as competitive pricing. Aside from pool construction we also provide servicing and maintenance packages, in store water analysis, equipment installation, automatic pool cover installations and liner r

eplacements. We are carriers of Sani Marc pool and spa chemicals, Hayward pool products, CoverStar automatic pool covers, and more...

06/23/2026

Ever wonder how we finish the last section of the pool pad? This is the last part of pool pad day. Pool pad is made up of vermiculite, Portland cement, and water, and once you get to the last section, this is what we do.

There are different tools and setups you can buy for this stage, but this is how we’ve always done it. Start in one spot, work your way out, and try not to fall in.

For anyone wondering, no, I’ve never fallen in doing this. I have puked once from hanging upside down too long, though.

Follow along for more pool content and progress on our summer projects in Saskatchewan.

06/23/2026

A look inside the plumbing and mechanical from our first build of the season.

This one was a bit different than usual because it didn’t have a traditional pool boiler. The customer went with a regular boiler to heat the building, and then we’re going to run an exchanger off of that to heat the pool.

We also upgraded our new pools this year to the Hayward Omni PL, so the customer can control the pump, lights, heat, and salt system all in one place.

Not the most exciting part of the build to watch, but this is what keeps the pool running smoothly once everything is finished.

Follow along for more pool building content and behind the scenes.

06/20/2026

Part 2 on the Rosewood pool build. This is us getting the steel panels set and the walls up after dig day.

This one has a sun ledge and vinyl over steel step, and it’s been going pretty smooth so far. We didn’t hit groundwater, so that’s a bonus.

We should have water in it in 4-5 days.

Follow along for the rest of the build and more pool content.

06/20/2026

Here’s the dig day timelapse on the Rosewood pool.

It’s a 16x32 with a 5 foot depth, 10 foot sun ledge, 6 foot vinyl over step in the shallow end, 3 lights, an in-wall ladder, and an auto cover.

Follow along for more updates on this build and more pool content.

Beautiful Saturday to be working on a pool. Dan the Pool Man and I are out in Rosewood on a new build we started earlier...
06/20/2026

Beautiful Saturday to be working on a pool. Dan the Pool Man and I are out in Rosewood on a new build we started earlier this week. Hoping to have water in it in the next 4–5 days if the weather cooperates.

06/19/2026

Our first new pool of 2026 is officially finished. The weather pushed this one back a bit, but the liner went in last Saturday and it’s ready for the season.

We’re already onto the next one. Our Rosewood build started yesterday.

More on both pools coming soon. Follow .bpw to see the progress and behind the scenes.

06/16/2026

I didn’t exactly plan on getting into the pool industry. When I was in my last year of university, I wanted to stay in the city for the summer, so a friend got me a job at a pool store. At the time, I assumed that meant pool tables. I didn’t realize there was actually a market for swimming pools in Saskatoon... which is funny because I couldn’t swim at the time either.

I started as a service helper, digging trenches and helping where I could. Then they got me cleaning pools.

That was the first year they offered weekly service to their customers, so I spent the summer driving around vacuuming pools, cleaning, doing water chemistry, backwashing filters, and figuring things out as I went. I had a toolbox with me, so if something small needed fixing, I’d try to take care of it. If I ran into something I couldn’t fix, the service guys would come behind me and either fix it or tell me what to do next time.

I did that for an entire summer, and some of those customers are still my customers today. When I started my own business, they came over, and some of them I’ve now known for over 25 years.

When I retire from building pools, that’s probably what I’ll do again. Drive around, listen to music, and vacuum pools.

06/15/2026

For those who didn’t have the attention span to watch all of Part 3 (which was a whopping 40 seconds long) here’s every time lapse from the pool renovation we just did in Evergreen.

1. Removing the old pool pad.
2. Reshaping the bottom of the pool.
3. Pouring the concrete over rocks for the groundwater control.
4. Laying the new pool pad.
5. Installing the new liner.

Swipe through to see the full process and the completed pool.

For the full story behind this renovation, check out our 3-part video series on this pool.

06/14/2026

Part 3/3 of this pool renovation we recently wrapped up. This video shows more of the full process from start to finish.

For anyone who hasn’t seen Part 1 or 2, we didn’t build this pool originally. It was built around 2013, and we took them on as a customer a couple years ago.

Before we were involved, they had a new liner installed, and within a few weeks, it started wrinkling. The company that installed it came back the next spring to try and fix it, but the wrinkles came back again. For the last couple years, we’ve been pumping water from behind the liner just to help get it somewhat back in place.

There were a few other issues too. Leaking lights, a leaking skimmer line, a broken in-wall ladder, a hole in the liner behind the ladder, mangled step stripping, and groundwater issues that needed to be dealt with properly.

So instead of just putting another liner in and hoping for the best, we took it back further.

We removed the old vermiculite pool pad, which was 4–6 inches thick. We had to jackhammer it out, haul it out in pails, and ended up removing two tandem truck loads of old vermiculite. Check out Part 1 for more on this.

From there, we reshaped the bottom of the pool, dealt with the groundwater control, capped it with the concrete mixture we use for that system, and then installed the new vermiculite pool pad on top before the new liner went in.

That base underneath the liner is a big part of the job. If the issues underneath aren’t corrected, you’re just covering up the same problems and hoping they don’t come back. With the soil conditions in this area, groundwater control had to be dealt with properly before the new pool pad and liner went in. A lot of people asked why we had to remove the pool pad in Part 1...This is why.

For those who watched to the end, thanks for your support.

Check out Part 1 and 2 if you want to see more of the removal and groundwater control stages.

06/10/2026

For anyone who didn’t see Part 1, we didn’t build this pool originally. This pool had been dealing with liner wrinkles, ground water issues, leaking lights, a leaking skimmer line, a broken in-wall ladder, and a few other issues that needed to be corrected.

So instead of just putting another liner in and hoping for the best, we took it back further.

In Part 1, we removed the old vermiculite pool pad. It was 4–6 inches thick, so we had to jackhammer it out, haul it out in pails, and ended up removing two tandem trucks full of old vermiculite.

After that, we reshaped the bottom of the pool and got it ready for the groundwater control.

In this video, we’re putting down the concrete mixture that we use to cap the groundwater control. This isn’t the final layer. The vermiculite pool pad will still go on top of this, and then the liner will go on top of that.

This is one of those steps you don’t see often, but it’s a common step we have to do on pools in neighbourhoods near bodies of water. The base underneath the liner has to be done right so we’re not just covering up the same problems again.

More to come on this one.

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2315 Millar Avenue
Saskatoon, SK
S7K2Y3

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