Pool installation for Arden properties
Arden is good pool country, and there are a lot of pools going in here. We install all four shell types: precast, fiberglass, gunite and container. Having four to choose from matters more in Arden than almost anywhere else we work, because backyard access rules some options out on a good many of these lots.
Arden sits in southern Buncombe County, about nine miles south of downtown Asheville, in the stretch between Skyland and Fletcher that runs down toward the Henderson County line. The land here is long settled and the landmarks say so. Christ School, Lutheridge, the Oak Park Historic District laid out in 1927, and the Blake House, standing since long before anyone here thought about a backyard pool.
All of that history matters for the pool work itself. Arden is not raw ground but a set of neighborhoods with grown-in yards, mature hardwood, driveways built for the cars of their era, and utilities that have been added to over decades.
So on an Arden lot, access is the first real question, not the slope. The width of the drive, the branches and power lines overhead, the place a crane could set up and still reach the backyard, and the run of the buried lines all get measured before anything is drawn. Those answers shape the design more than the grade does on most properties here.
The ground itself is mixed and generally kinder than the region’s average. Along the Hendersonville Road corridor it is relatively gentle. West toward Avery Creek, where nearby ground sits around 2,231 feet, and up onto the ridges, the land steepens and the usable flat area shrinks to whatever bench the house already sits on.
Septic, sewer and where the pool can actually go
Arden runs both ways on wastewater, and whether a lot is on sewer or on septic changes street to street. Closer to the Hendersonville Road corridor you are more likely to be on the public system.
On the larger lots west and south, septic is common, and a septic system decides pool placement before you do.
Nothing gets built over a tank or a drain field: not the pool, not the patio, not the equipment pad. The field needs to stay open for water to soak away, and it needs its reserve area left clear too. Working out where the tank, the field and the buried lines actually sit is one of the first things we do on a site visit.
On a lot of properties, once you have kept clear of all of that, the genuinely usable spot is smaller than the yard looks. Where a large shell will not fit, a compact precast pool often will, and that is a real argument for pricing one early.
