A pool you buy. Not a pool you contract.
Most pool companies sell you a construction project: a licensed pool contractor, a permit cycle, inspections, subs, and two months of your yard being a job site. We deliberately built a different thing. Cocktail Pools Florida sells a product — an above-ground recreational vessel that stays at or under 24 inches above grade — and our own employees deliver and assemble it on a prepared pad.
Nothing is excavated. Nothing is permanently connected to your house. The equipment plugs into an existing exterior GFCI outlet. That is the entire reason the process takes two days instead of two months, and it's why the job stays outside licensed pool construction. We'd rather say that out loud than let you assume otherwise.
What we do
- Design your pool with you and produce the plan set, site plan and documentation pack.
- Manufacture and ship the kit — block spec, rebar, core box, liner, coping and equipment.
- Deliver and assemble the pool in Florida with our own employees, on a pad we level and compact.
- Set the equipment, plumb the pool loop, fill it and commission it on a plug-in circuit.
- Warrant the kit and our own assembly labor.
What we are not
- We are not a licensed Florida pool contractor. We don't build in-ground pools, we don't excavate, and we don't take on licensed pool construction work.
- We are not a permit service. We don't pull permits on your behalf and we don't issue legal opinions about your jurisdiction.
- We don't do electrical work. No new circuits, no panel work, no hardwiring, no bonding changes.
- We don't do plumbing tie-ins to your house supply or sanitary drain.
- We don't do gas runs, heaters on gas, or sub-panels.
Who designs it
A Florida-licensed architect on our staff authored the design standard every pool we sell is built to: the wall assembly, the reinforcement and core-fill schedule, the coping detail, the liner spec and the equipment sizing. Nothing about a given yard gets improvised — the configurator draws your shape against that standard, and the kit and plan set come out of it.
That's the part people miss about this model. Permit-exempt is a code classification, not a shortcut on structure. We skipped the permit cycle by staying above grade and unplumbed — we did not skip the engineering.
Being architect-designed is not a contractor license, and it doesn't change anything above: we still pull no permits and do no electrical or plumbing work. If you want that design work put on paper with a state seal — for an HOA board, a waterfront lot or a cautious building department — the sealed architect review is an optional add-on, produced by that same architect.
What's on you
- An existing exterior GFCI-protected receptacle within reach of the equipment pad. If you don't have one, hire a licensed electrician — that work, and any bonding it involves, is theirs.
- Any permit your city or county does require for that electrical work, or for anything else you add.
- HOA or ARC approval. A permit exemption is not board approval. We give you a submission packet; the decision is theirs.
- A hose bibb for filling and a legal place to discharge drain or backwash water.
- Confirming the rules for your address with your local building department before build day.
Why we tell you this up front
Because the model only works if it stays inside its lane. The moment a pool gets dug into the ground, hardwired, or plumbed into the house, it stops being a product and becomes licensed construction — and that's a different company, a different price and a different timeline. If your project needs that, we'll tell you, and we'll tell you before you pay.
None of this is legal advice. Requirements are administered locally and change. Read the 24" rule and the site requirements, then confirm with your building department.