Bakersfield Pool Builders provides professional water features & fountains in Bakersfield, CA for residential and commercial properties across Kern County. Pool water features do something genuinely useful in Kern County beyond looking good: they cool the water. Aeration is the only practical way to pull heat out of a pool that has been sitting in 105-degree sun all week, and a waterfall or a set of bubblers running overnight will drop the temperature by several degrees by morning. In a valley summer that is the difference between a pool people swim in and a pool people look at. We build the whole range. Sheer descents are the clean architectural option — a stainless or acrylic weir in a raised wall dropping a flat sheet of water, backlit with color-changing LED — and they move a lot of water, which makes them the best cooling feature as well as the best-looking one. Laminar jets throw a clear arc across the deck and no child will leave them alone. Bubblers on a tanning ledge are inexpensive, quiet, and the feature toddlers use most. Scuppers set into a stuccoed raised bond beam suit the Spanish and ranch elevations common around here. Rock waterfalls and grottos work on the larger lots where the scale supports them, which in Kern County is a lot of lots. Hydraulics decide whether a feature performs or embarrasses itself. Every feature needs its own plumbing run sized to the weir width and enough head pressure to deliver the designed flow, which usually means a dedicated feature pump or a saved speed on a variable-speed pump. Undersized plumbing cannot be corrected later without opening the deck, so we calculate it during design. Features go on automation so they run with the lights or on an overnight cooling schedule. We also repair existing features — leaking basins, dead bubblers, seized feature pumps, and rockwork that has gone green and slick.
With 15+ years of experience, our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — gunite and shotcrete shells, PebbleTec and polished quartz interiors, travertine and flagstone coping, Title 24 variable-speed pumps, oversized cartridge and DE filtration, saltwater chlorine generators — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Bakersfield and nearby communities including Delano, Oildale, Ridgecrest, Wasco.
What We Handle
Everything our water features & fountains in Bakersfield covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of water features & fountains work in Bakersfield, CA. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- sheer descent waterfalls
- rock waterfall construction
- bubblers and deck jets
- laminar jets with LED
- scupper and spillway features
- grotto and slide features
- raised wall water features
- pool fountain repair
- water feature pump sizing
- aeration for pool cooling
- negative edge and perimeter overflow
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Bakersfield services.
Materials, equipment and how we do water features & fountains
The difference between water features & fountains that lasts and water features & fountains that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with gunite and shotcrete shells, PebbleTec and polished quartz interiors, travertine and flagstone coping, Title 24 variable-speed pumps, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Bakersfield job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. 15+ years of pool work in Kern County means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do water features & fountains outside Bakersfield
Bakersfield Pool Builders covers Bakersfield and the surrounding communities of Kern County. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Water Features & Fountains in Delano, CA — Kern County, population 51,400
- Water Features & Fountains in Oildale, CA — Kern County, population 36,100
- Water Features & Fountains in Ridgecrest, CA — Kern County, population 28,000
- Water Features & Fountains in Wasco, CA — Kern County, population 27,000
- Water Features & Fountains in Shafter, CA — Kern County, population 19,950
- Water Features & Fountains in Arvin, CA — Kern County, population 19,500
Start on the Bakersfield Pool Builders homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Bakersfield Chooses Bakersfield Pool Builders
- ✓Over 15 years building pools across Kern County, valley floor to Tehachapi
- ✓Filtration and circulation sized for valley dust and 110-degree summers
- ✓Residential and commercial, from backyard gunite pools to motel and HOA amenities
- ✓In-house crews from excavation through start-up, not rotating subcontractors
Every water features & fountains project in Bakersfield gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free water features & fountains free estimate in Bakersfield, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.