Pool Deck Resurfacing in Bee Cave, Texas
Leander Pool Resurfacing provides pool deck resurfacing in Bee Cave, Texas, laying cement resurfacers, knockdown textures and acrylic coatings over existing concrete decks once their cracks and joints are repaired.
Bee Cave sits where State Highway 71 meets Farm Roads 620 and 2244, fourteen miles west of Austin, and its city limits touch Lakeway's. Inside them are neighborhoods such as Falconhead, Falconhead West, Ladera, Uplands, Homestead and Bee Cave West, along with Central Park and its dog park. In a straight line, the city's Census center point lies about 19.4 miles south-southwest of Leander's. Call or send the form for a free estimate.
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Pool decks on homes built since 2000
Bee Cave's housing is young. In the Census Bureau's 2020–2024 survey, 3,650 of an estimated 4,283 housing units, about 85.2%, were built between 2000 and 2019, 2,484 of them in the 2010s, and only 156 date from before 1990; the median home was built in 2012. Just over half the units, about 51.5%, are single-family detached houses, and 1,853 are in buildings of five or more units. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $776,400, though the survey's margin on that figure is wide.
The 2020 Census counted 9,144 residents and 4,044 housing units, and the Bureau's estimate for July 1, 2025 is 8,464. The Census doesn't count pools or decks, so housing age is only a guide to what sits in the backyards.
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(737) 212-9378How the city's code counts a pool deck
Bee Cave's Unified Development Code counts concrete, asphalt, masonry and paving-stone surfaces as impervious cover, but not the water surface of a swimming pool, and it caps impervious cover on new development at 40% of the net site area. The City's 2016 comprehensive plan describes a 20% cap for single-family homes; the plan sets policy, and the code is the rule. By our reading, a new coating over an existing slab adds no area, while widening the deck does, so an extension is the part to measure against the lot.
Setbacks, cuts and creeks
In the AG, R-1, R-2 and R-3 zoning districts, a permanent pool, spa or hot tub and comparable flatwork may sit in a required side or rear setback if it stays at least 5 feet from the rear property line; in other districts the setbacks apply. Cuts and fills are limited to four feet of depth, with exceptions that include building a pool or a foundation, and no deck, pool or other structure may be built inside an erosion hazard setback protecting a stream.
Permits and the flatwork fee
The City says a permit is needed "in most cases", and its examples include swimming pools and decks of more than 200 square feet or more than 30 inches above grade. Its fee schedule sets $50.00 for a flat work permit (driveways, sidewalks, parking lots and similar work), $500.00 plus plumbing and electrical fees for a swimming pool, and $350.00 for each reinspection after a safety and security violation. Bee Cave has adopted the 2015 International Residential Code with its appendices. Whether recoating an existing pool deck needs a permit isn't stated, so ask Planning and Development, and check with your HOA, which the City says may have its own requirements even where no City permit is needed.
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(737) 212-9378Wash water and the storm drains
Only stormwater may go into Bee Cave's stormwater drainage system. The code names filter backwash from a pool, fountain or spa, and pool water carrying more than three parts per million of chlorine or harmful amounts of muriatic acid or other pool chemicals, among the banned discharges. Read plainly, the first rule leaves out deck wash water too, so the rinse from pressure-washing or acid-etching a deck stays on the property instead of running to the street. That reading is ours, and we'll talk through where the water goes before the deck is washed.
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(737) 212-9378Shallow, limy ground under the slab
The City's comprehensive plan describes Bee Cave's soils as generally shallow, calcareous and moderately alkaline, mostly of the Brackett and Tarrant types, on ground that rises from about 740 feet along Little Barton Creek to about 1,100 feet in the northwest, with rainfall averaging about 30 inches a year. At the city's Census center point, the federal soil survey maps Volente silty clay loam on 1 to 8 percent slopes, one point rather than the whole city.
A new surface follows the slab beneath it. QUIKRETE says cracks in an old slab can't be completely kept from reflecting into a new cement surface, especially where the slab lacks control joints or settles, and SUNDEK keeps existing control joints open under its coating and replaces expansion joints that have worn out. Wide cracks, settled slabs and failed joints are repaired before any resurfacing starts.
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(737) 212-9378Named for honeybees on Barton Creek
The City says Bee Cave takes its name from colonies of Mexican honeybees that lived along the banks of Barton Creek and Little Barton Creek. Dietrich Bohls settled the area in the early 1850s, according to the Handbook of Texas, which reports the population at fifty from the 1940s through the 1980s, then 241 in 1990 and 656 in 2000. Bee Cave incorporated in 1987, run from a portable building and covering about two square miles with an 8,800-acre extraterritorial jurisdiction. It became the City of Bee Cave in 2006, and voters approved a home-rule charter in 2013.
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(737) 212-9378Other pool and deck work near Bee Cave
Besides resurfacing, we repair cracked and settled decks, recoat cool deck, replace coping and put in travertine and paver decks.
Nearby, Leander Pool Resurfacing also handles pool water features in The Hills and polished pool finishes in Lakeway.
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(737) 212-9378Resurfacing a pool deck with a cement overlay
General practice from QUIKRETE's data sheet for its Re-Cap resurfacer, a polymer-modified portland cement spread from a feather edge of 1/16 inch up to 1/2 inch. Acrylic and knockdown systems follow their own makers' steps, and your estimate covers your own deck.
Repair first
Damaged concrete is repaired and allowed to cure before any resurfacer goes on.
Clean to bare concrete
Loose concrete, paint, grease, algae and mildew come off, and the deck is pressure-washed at 2,500 PSI; the resurfacer goes only on bare concrete, never over paint or sealer.
Wet it down
The slab is soaked to a saturated-surface-dry state: damp all through, with no water standing on it.
Spread in sections
The resurfacer is squeegeed on in sections of about 144 square feet or less, using the control and expansion joints as break points and keeping them open.
Second coat and broom
Any second coat goes on within 24 hours, and the surface is broomed for grip once it is thumb-print hard.
Cure before use
Work stays between 50°F and 90°F; the new surface is moist-cured for 24 to 48 hours, kept out of rain for at least 8 hours, and takes foot traffic after 8.
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(737) 212-9378Pool deck resurfacing questions
Do Bee Cave's dark-sky rules affect lights on a pool deck?
They may. Bee Cave became Texas's 7th DarkSky Community in April 2023, and the City approved lighting regulations for both homes and businesses that meet the International Dark Sky Association's requirements. The City's summary doesn't say how they treat deck, step or pool lights, so ask Planning and Development before new fixtures go into a resurfaced deck.
Which rules apply to a pool deck in Spanish Oaks or Lake Pointe?
The City lists Lake Pointe and Spanish Oaks among the neighborhoods outside Bee Cave's city limits, so the first step there is to confirm which rules govern the address. Inside or outside the limits, the City reminds owners to check their HOA's requirements and deed restrictions, which can apply even when no City permit is needed.
Free pool deck resurfacing estimates in Bee Cave
Leander Pool Resurfacing answers calls and estimate requests 24/7 for pool deck resurfacing in Bee Cave. Tell us roughly how big the deck is, what surface it has now and whether you plan to make it any bigger.