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NSPI Member Pool Builders in South Africa
The National Spa & Pool Institute of South Africa (NSPI) is the recognised industry body for swimming pool and spa professionals. Hiring an NSPI member means choosing a company that has committed to the Institute’s codes of practice and standards of workmanship — and that answers to an industry body if something goes wrong.
Every company below is an NSPI member listed on PoolBuilders.co.za — from national commercial builders to family firms that have held membership for decades, many holding NSPI Gold, Silver and Platinum awards. Browse their award-winning pools, or open any profile to request a quote.
Oasis Pools Zambia
Oasis Pools builds, remodels and maintains swimming pools, spas and saunas across Zambia, with branches in Lusaka and Kitwe. The team also installs and repairs pumps, filters and pool equipment, and stocks chemicals and spa products in its retail shops.
Suburban Pools
Suburban Pools has been building gunite pools in Cape Town since 1981, working out of Ottery across the Peninsula and the Southern Suburbs and inland to Somerset West and the Boland. Luke Sulston now runs the company, the third pool builder in a line that began with founder Brian Greenfield.
Radiant Pools
Radiant Pools has been building pools in Cape Town since 1972 and is still run by the same family, now in its third generation. The team takes on the awkward jobs: clifftop and rooftop pools, infinity edges and tight-access sites, as well as everyday gunite and fibreglass builds.
Thatch Crete Gauteng cc
Thatch Crete has been building rock and beach pools around Boksburg and the East Rand for 22 years, alongside the thatch lapas, rock braais and paving that go around them. Shells are hand-packed 30MPa concrete, steel reinforced, finished in marblite or fibreglass.
Sundance Pools
Sundance Pools manufactures fibreglass pool shells in Strand, Cape Town, including custom shapes and freestanding pools, and distributes them nationally through a network of agents. Installation, renovation, relining, safety covers, nets, solar heating and mosaic finishes.
Summer Pools
Summer Pools has been building, renovating and maintaining Cape Town pools since 1996, from a base in Table View. Rim-flow pools are the speciality, alongside lap pools and family pools with water features, finished in mosaic tile, marble plaster or fibreglass.
Smities Pools
Smities Pools is a Centurion pool company based at Doringkloof Mall. The team builds new pools from start to finish, redesigns older ones, and handles weekly maintenance, repairs, chemicals and computerised water testing for pool owners across the surrounding area.
Serenity Pools
Serenity Pools is an owner-managed gunite and hand-packed concrete pool builder based in Uitzicht, Durbanville, working across greater Cape Town from Somerset West through to Malmesbury. Herman van Schalkwyk oversees every project himself, from new pools and splash pools to full renovations.
Sapphire Pools
Sapphire Pool Services has looked after KwaZulu-Natal pools since 1987. Led by Mike Bruyn, the Durban North team services, repairs and renovates domestic, school and municipal pools, and builds new steel-reinforced gunite pools across greater Durban and the wider province.
Sakhikhaya
Sakhikhaya Suppliers is a building, civil and plumbing contractor based in Parow, Cape Town, with branches in five provinces. Among its construction work the company builds and refurbishes swimming pools, including the municipal baths at Ravensmead, Elsies River and Newlands in Cape Town.
Robust Pools and Paving
Robust Pools has been building pools in Durban since 1988, working across eThekwini and the KwaZulu-Natal coast. Gunite and pre-formed fibreglass pools, rim-flow pools, renovations of older pools, and the paving and water features that go with them.
Pool Fundi
Pool Fundi is a Durban pool builder based on the Bluff, working across eThekwini since 1994. The team builds gunite and fibreglass pools, handles renovations, resurfacing and repairs, builds artificial rock waterfalls, and sits on the panel of four major insurers for pool claims.
Pool Care Clinic
Pool Care Clinic is a pool shop and service team on Gabriel Road in Plumstead, Cape Town, trading since 1995. The crew runs weekly and fortnightly maintenance, clears green pools, changes filter sand, traces leaks and repairs pool equipment across the southern suburbs.
Poly Aqua Linings
Poly Aqua Linings is part of Poly Group, a PVC specialist trading from Putfontein in Benoni since 1962. The company manufactures and installs vinyl linings for swimming pools, reservoirs, dams and fish ponds, and re-lines cracked or leaking pools rather than rebuilding them.
Pacific Pools
Pacific Pools is the only NSPI member in East London, a member since 1989, and has serviced more than 1 000 pools in the area. Founded by Mike Godfrey and now run by Steve Godfrey, using NSPI-approved machine guniting.
Onkemetse Investments T/A Pool Line Services
Pool Line Services is a Bloubosrand-based pool company that has served Randburg and greater Johannesburg since 2014. The team designs, builds and maintains swimming pools, and also takes on re-marbeliting, fibreglass linings, decking, solar heating, heat pumps, salt chlorinators and garden ponds.
Malachite Pools
Malachite Pools is a Johannesburg-based commercial and residential pool builder led by founder Shaun Lamb, who has over 38 years of pool building experience. The company designs and constructs hotel, Olympic, gym and school pools, water parks, dams and water features across Southern Africa.
Lic Pools – Windhoek
LIC Pool Centre builds swimming pools from its own factory in Windhoek, Namibia. The team moulds fibreglass pools in more than twenty shapes, builds gunite pools to custom designs, and fits jacuzzis, ponds and water features for homes and the leisure trade right across the country.
Kenny Matthews Pools cc
Kenny Matthews Pools builds, repairs and maintains pools along the KwaZulu-Natal north coast, from Salt Rock and Sheffield Beach through Ballito. Gunite construction for homes on tight coastal sites, and one of the most awarded builders in the country.
JVR Pools
JVR Pools builds gunite and concrete swimming pools along the KwaZulu-Natal coast, from overflow and splash pools to custom designs for private homes and lodges. The KwaZulu-Natal team also builds hardwood decks, entertainment areas and retaining walls, and renovates existing pools.
JN Pools
JN Pools and General Maintenance works from Strand in the Helderberg, relining and installing fibreglass swimming pools across Cape Town and the wider Western Cape. Relining is the core of the business, sealing an ageing shell and finishing it in a colour of the owner's choosing.
Island Pools
Island Pools has been building and restyling pools on the Garden Route for more than 25 years, working out of Knysna Industrial. Indoor and outdoor pools, saltwater and fibreglass builds, natural pools and spas, plus renovations of tired older pools.
Member since 2008
Horizon Pools (Pty) LtdHorizon Pools manufactures and installs fibreglass pool shells from Strand, serving Cape Town and the wider Western Cape. Relining of old concrete and fibreglass pools, plunge pools, hot tubs, water features, covers, nets, solar heating and mosaics all come off the same team.
Hippo Pools cc
Hippo Pools cc is a family-run swimming pool builder established in 1983 and based in Benoni on Gauteng's East Rand. Specialising in custom concrete pools, the company designs, builds and refurbishes swimming pools, with a portfolio spanning private garden pools to resort-style installations.
H&H Water Systems
H&H Water Systems works on commercial and public pool water treatment in Gauteng, from municipal and hotel pools through to large leisure installations. The team handles filtration, circulation and treatment systems rather than domestic backyard builds.
Elyte Chem
Elyte Chem has been contracting in Pretoria since 1984, building, remodelling and maintaining swimming pools alongside water features, irrigation, borehole and filtration systems. Much of the work is on public and semi-public pools.
East Coast Pools
East Coast Pools has been looking after pools in Gqeberha and the wider Eastern Cape for years, run by Gavin Willatt. New installations, repairs and renovations, heating, salt chlorinators, saunas and steam generators, plus safety nets and pool equipment.
Commercial Pools
Commercial Pool Care designs, supplies and installs commercial swimming pools as a turnkey operation. Gauteng-based and working nationally, the team has built pools for estates, schools, hotels and fitness centres for over 13 years, specialising in custom filtration and dosing systems.
Blue Lagoon Pools
Blue Lagoon Pools is a family-owned swimming pool builder in Brooklyn, Pretoria, established in 1962. The team designs and builds concrete and gunite pools, installs pre-moulded fibreglass pools, constructs public and commercial pools, and renovates older pools for homes, schools and gyms.
Blackheath Pool Services
Blackheath Pool Services works the West Rand and northern Johannesburg, from Weltevredenpark out towards Krugersdorp. Gunite pool installation, repairs and renovations, plus vinyl, fibreglass and above-ground pools and the servicing that keeps them going.
Bermuda Pools
Bermuda Pools is a Cape Town pool company based in Plumstead, working across the Southern Suburbs, City Bowl and Atlantic Seaboard. Trading since 1998, the team specialises in renovations, repairs and maintenance, from fibreglass linings and leak detection to filtration upgrades.
B.D. Pools
Founded in 2001 by Herman van der Mast, B.D. Pools designs, builds, renovates and maintains swimming pools and water features for homes, schools, hotels and casinos. Based on the West Rand, the team takes on projects across Johannesburg, wider South Africa and beyond.
Ashley’s Pools
Ashley's Pools is a Pietermaritzburg pool company run by Ashley Kleingeld and Anri Behr. The team builds gunite and fibreglass pools, renovates and re-lines existing ones, lays paving and builds rock water features, and runs a pool shop at Hilton in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.
Anthony Pools
Anthony Pools has been a one-stop pool company in Cape Town since 1976. Concrete and gunite pools built to your own design, fibreglass pools off a moulded range, spas, koi ponds, water features, paving, heating, maintenance and renovations.
AfriPools
AfriPools has built and installed fibreglass swimming pools from its base at Klein Zoutrivier Farm in Melkbosstrand since 2003, serving Cape Town and the Western Cape coast. The range runs from splash pools to ten-metre family pools, with DIY kits for owners who want to do part of the work.
Member since 2022
Cosmo PoolsCosmo Pools manufactures composite fibreglass pool shells at its own plant and installs them across Gauteng, from Centurion and Pretoria out to Hartebeespoort. Choose a shape from the range, get an instant online estimate, and the team handles delivery, installation and salt-chlorination.
Member since 2018
Epic Pool RescueEpic Pool Rescue is a Durban pool company set up in 2013 and based at Waterfall in the outer west. The team builds new pools and takes on renovations, fibreglass shells and linings, paving and monthly pool care across KwaZulu-Natal, with the owner supervising each job.
Member since 2004
Curtis PoolsCurtis Pools has been building, repairing and maintaining pools around Johannesburg since 1973, now led by owner Russ Curtis. We build custom gunite pools with marbelite finishing, and handle shell-only rebuilds, enlargements, major repairs and commercial projects with real care for our clients.
Pretoria Pools
Pretoria Pools has been building swimming pools in the capital since 1968, which makes it one of the oldest pool companies in Gauteng. The team takes new builds from excavation through to tiling and coping, and also handles maintenance, leak detection and pump and filter repairs.
Member since 2010
MacD Designer PoolsMacD Designer Pools has been building gunite swimming pools in Cape Town since 1979. The family-run business designs, builds and renovates, working from Sybrand Park with a second base in Hermanus, and puts its own installation teams on site rather than subcontracting the build out.
Member since 2009
Pride Pools InternationalPride Pools International has built more than 6 000 pools out of Constantia, Cape Town, and its work reaches beyond South Africa into Mauritius, Namibia and the Seychelles. Concrete and rock pools, commercial installations, spas and ponds.
What NSPI membership means
NSPI members span the major regions of South Africa, with members in neighbouring Zambia and Namibia too. Membership signals a commitment to the Institute’s published construction standards — and gives homeowners a point of recourse, because complaints about a member’s workmanship can be taken up with the Institute. Use the filters above to narrow by province or pool type, or request quotes from several NSPI members at once.
What is the NSPI?
The National Spa & Pool Institute of South Africa is the industry association for pool and spa professionals — builders, renovators, suppliers and service companies. It sets standards for pool construction, supports member training, and runs the annual NSPI Awards for excellence in pool building.
What does NSPI membership mean for a homeowner?
An NSPI member has agreed to build to the Institute's published standards and codes of practice. Membership gives you a point of recourse: complaints about a member's workmanship can be taken up with the Institute. It is one of the strongest signals of reputability in the South African pool industry.
How do I verify that a builder is an NSPI member?
Every company on this page is listed as an NSPI member in our directory. You can also confirm current membership directly with the Institute at nspi.co.za.
Do NSPI members win awards?
Yes — the NSPI judges its awards annually across residential, commercial and public pool categories. In 2025, member companies took home 103 awards, including Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze honours. Browse them all on the NSPI Awards page at poolbuilders.co.za/pool-project/.
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