Project reference · 03
An infinity pool brought back to new
The Markovitz residence, a French-style estate on the water in Jupiter, already had a formal infinity pool. It no longer looked the part. Liberty Pools stripped the edge wall, spa and waterline back to the shell, re-waterproofed and re-tiled them in glass, rebuilt the coping, replaced the entire deck in marble with a custom inlay pattern, and added laminar jets, color LED lighting and a code-compliant main drain, working directly for the owner in an occupied home.
Make an existing pool look like it was built with the house
The architecture set the rules: symmetry, stone, arches and a view straight through the house to the water. The pool sat on that axis, but its gutter wall, spa and deck had aged. The owner wanted it dark and still by day, alive at night, and finished to the standard of the home, without rebuilding the shell.
Liberty Pools contracted directly with the owner (a "Local Magazine" lead, not a referral) and carried the whole scope: leak detection, structural reinforcement of the beam, waterproofing and tile, coping, deck, hydraulics, equipment, lighting and water features.
Dark by day, lit by night
- Edge
- Existing infinity-edge wall with gutter spillway and collection basin; wall stripped, waterproofed with RedGuard and re-tiled
- Interior tile
- Iridescent glass mosaic on the edge wall, spa walls, sundeck transition and 6" waterline; full regrout in epoxy grout; existing tile repaired elsewhere
- Coping
- Existing beam reinforced and the entire coping redone
- Deck
- Old deck and turf removed; about 2,080 SF rebuilt in marble on a leveled, compacted base with a custom inlay layout, marble baseboard and premium sealer
- Water features
- 6 laminar jets set into the deck with LED, on 150 LF of new electrical run
- Hydraulics
- New dual-channel main drain on 130 LF of plumbing, compliant with entrapment-prevention code; leak detection and repair included
- Equipment
- Jandy FloPro 2.7 THP variable-speed pump with iQPUMP Wi-Fi control; Jandy CS200 cartridge filter
- Lighting
- Jandy HydroCool RGBW nicheless LED, color-changing; 185 LF custom step overhang housing LED strips; new conduit cut into the deck
Details you only see up close
Glass over a waterproofed wall
The old tile came off the gutter walls down to the shell. RedGuard waterproofing went on first, then the new glass mosaic, then the spillway was rebuilt so the sheet of water runs evenly into the gutter again.
Laminar jets on the axis
Six jets set into the new deck, aligned with the arches of the house, each with its own LED so the arcs read at night. Two were re-leveled after the owner's walk-through.
Marble with black inlays
The deck pattern was custom-drawn for the site: light marble with black diamond accents laid out from the pool's centerline, marble baseboard at the walls, one coat of premium sealer to finish.
Scope agreed in stages, work done in one campaign
The owner started with the edge wall and deck, then added spa, waterline and sundeck tile, lighting, a larger deck and the fence work as the project took shape. Every addition was a signed estimate or change order before it was built.
Strip, waterproof, tile
Contract signed September 4. Old tile off the gutter walls and spa, RedGuard applied, new glass mosaic set on the edge wall, spa, sundeck and waterline.
Coping and marble deck
Beam reinforced, coping redone, old deck and turf removed, new marble laid on a leveled base with the custom inlay pattern and new conduit for jets and lights.
Sealer, fill, start-up
Deck sealed, pool filled January 13–14, pump and filter started, deck cleaned. Owner walk-through the same week, punch items logged.
Sharing the site
Ceiling painters and a lighting crew worked the same weeks; Liberty sequenced sealer, fill and clean-up around them and kept the owner posted daily.
Deck extended, job done
A further 760 SF of marble, baseboard, sealer and fence reinstalled; deck repair April 29; basin tile finished and the job logged as done May 1.
Remodeling a pool nobody wants to rebuild
An existing shell with unknowns: possible leaks, a beam that had to carry new coping, and old tile bonded to the gutter walls.
Leak detection with repairs written into the contract, the beam reinforced before coping, and the edge wall stripped to the shell and waterproofed with RedGuard before a single new tile went on.
The original main drain did not meet current entrapment-prevention code.
Replaced with a new dual-channel main drain on 130 feet of new plumbing, so the remodeled pool complies with today's safety standard, not the one it was built to.
An occupied estate with other trades in the same weeks: ceiling painters over the pool, a lighting crew waiting on the deck sealer, scaffolding and tools left on new marble.
Liberty sequenced the sealer, the fill, the equipment start-up and the deck clean-up around the other contractors' dates and kept the owner informed daily until the deck was clear.
The scope roughly doubled over the project as the owner saw the results and asked for more.
Four additional estimates and one change order, each signed before the work started, so the owner always knew what was being built and the crew never worked from a verbal instruction.
The pool at night
A short film of the finished project after dark: laminar jets, the re-tiled edge and the color lighting against the estate.
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The basin, tiled and signed off
Raw phone footage from the project manager on the last day on site: the collection basin behind the infinity wall, fully tiled in the same glass mosaic as the pool. This is the clip that closed the job in our system.
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Handed over, and photographed with the owner
Alan Markovitz with Liberty Pools CEO Lucas Garcia at the finished pool, Jupiter, 2025. Finished photography January to March 2025; construction photos from the Liberty project record, January to May 2025.