Transform Your Backyard Into Paradise

Hive Outdoor Living is a Florida certified pool contractor (CPC1458419) that designs and builds custom gunite swimming pools from a Tampa shop at 7606 N. Nebraska Ave. We are not a fiberglass franchise and not a broker that hands your backyard to whoever is cheapest this month.

Inground here means a structural gunite shell in the ground — steel, shotcrete, waterproof finish — not a liner box or a one-piece hull dropped in a hole. Hive builds those shells for Tampa Bay lots where the water table, not the catalog, decides how the hole is dug.

Installation is the unglamorous middle: permits, inspections, steel, gunite, plumbing, electrical, decks, and a first fill that does not ruin new plaster. Hive runs that sequence as a licensed contractor, not as a weekend installer.

Custom means the pool is drawn for your house, setbacks, and how you swim — not picked from a binder of six rectangles. Hive's designers work in 3D so you can reject a shape before steel is tied.

Hive designs pools as a builder who has to stand behind the drawings. Pretty pictures that cannot pass a Florida plan review are not a design service — they are a liability. Our design work ends in a constructible, permitable set.

A lagoon pool is a freeform gunite vessel dressed as a tropical edge: beach entries, boulders, waterfalls, and planting pockets. It is still a permitted Florida pool with bonding, barriers, and a water table — the 'natural' look is craft, not a pond liner.

An infinity (vanishing) edge is a lowered beam where water sheets into a catch basin and is pumped back. It is a hydraulic and structural problem. Hive installs them on lots that actually have a reason — a view, a grade change — not as a sticker on a flat yard.

A custom spa is a second vessel or a raised gunite spa sharing water with the pool — champagne bubblers, spillover weirs, separate heat. Hive builds them as part of the shell, not as a portable tub set on the deck.

Building the pool and the outdoor kitchen together means gas, water, electric, drainage, and deck elevations are one plan. Hive coordinates that so the grill island is not an afterthought sitting on the wrong side of the equipment pad.