Swimming Pool Construction Cost Philippines 2026
A concrete pool in the Philippines costs roughly ₱19,000 to ₱64,500 per square metre of water surface, and the two things that move it most are how big the pool is and what grade of finish you pick. The figures below come from 20 contractor quotations collected in September 2026.
| Pool size | Standard finish | Premium tile or features | Architect-led package |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 to 18 sqm | ₱30,500 – ₱42,500 | ₱35,000 – ₱52,500 | ₱46,500 – ₱65,000 |
| 18 to 25 sqm | ₱25,000 – ₱35,000 | ₱29,500 – ₱44,000 | ₱40,000 – ₱55,500 |
| 25 to 35 sqm | ₱21,500 – ₱29,500 | ₱25,000 – ₱37,500 | ₱35,000 – ₱47,500 |
| 35 to 45 sqm | ₱19,500 – ₱25,500 | ₱23,000 – ₱33,000 | ₱32,000 – ₱42,000 |
| 45 to 55 sqm | ₱18,500 – ₱23,000 | ₱21,500 – ₱30,500 | ₱30,500 – ₱39,000 |
Excludes building permit, village construction bond, pool deck, landscaping and VAT. The quotations behind this cover 12.5 to 55 sqm, so the table stops at 55. We have no data on pools larger than that and have not extrapolated.
How much does a swimming pool cost in the Philippines?
A standard 8m x 4m concrete pool with ceramic tile and no water features came in around ₱850,000 to ₱1,000,000 in the quotes we collected, or roughly ₱26,500 to ₱31,000 per square metre. The same pool with Sukabumi stone ran from ₱890,000 to ₱1,100,000, and with a jacuzzi and waterfall on top, up to ₱1,400,000.
Three things move the number, in order of how much they move it.
- Size. Cost per square metre falls as pools get bigger, for the reason explained below. Between a 12 sqm pool and a 55 sqm pool the rate roughly halves.
- Finish grade. Sukabumi stone against standard ceramic tile added about 34 percent to the shell rate. One contractor who priced both finishes for the same buyer came to 33.9 percent. A separate Sukabumi-only quote against the top of the standard group came to 33.2 percent. Those two routes are independent of each other and they agree.
- Depth. Almost nobody prices it and it changes the build substantially.
Site access, village work-hour restrictions and equipment tier each move the total by roughly 5 to 20 percent on top.
Where these numbers come from
What was collected. 20 quotations for residential concrete pools, gathered between 21 and 25 September 2026. Sources were direct enquiries to contractors through Facebook Messenger, prices published in contractors' own advertisements, and one signed construction contract published publicly. Pools ranged from 12.5 to 55 sqm. Most sites were in Cavite and Laguna, with some quoted for Metro Manila.
How they were made comparable. Quotes arrive at different sizes with different things bundled in, so a headline peso figure cannot be compared across two of them. Each quote was reduced to a shell rate: cost per square metre of built surface, meaning floor plus walls, after subtracting a fixed allowance for equipment and mobilisation, an excavation allowance based on dig volume, a coping allowance based on perimeter, and the stated price of any water features. That rate is comparable between pools of any size or depth.
What the shell rates showed. Three groups. Standard ceramic finish, 7 quotes, ₱6,642 to ₱8,307. Premium tile or bundled water features, 9 quotes, ₱8,454 to ₱11,984. Top-of-market packages, 4 quotes, ₱13,192 to ₱16,428. The bands in the table apply those three groups back across the size range.
An earlier version of this page reported clear air between the standard group and the premium group. Two Sukabumi quotes have since landed inside that gap, at ₱8,454 and ₱8,896, and the standard and premium bands now overlap. Treat the columns as overlapping populations rather than three separate price levels.
Sanity check. The lowest observed shell rate sits above what the same surface costs in materials at 2026 prices, which we put at about ₱4,850 per square metre of built surface for concrete, rebar, waterproofing, plaster and tile with no labour. No quote fell below that.
What this is not
- Not a random sample. These contractors were reached by responding to advertisements or by messaging pages that appear in Philippine pool searches. Contractors who do not advertise are absent, and those tend to be either the largest firms or the smallest informal operators.
- Mostly not signed contracts. Fourteen of the 16 are quoted estimates given before a site visit. A real quotation after measurement can move in either direction, and several contractors said as much when giving the figure.
- Small numbers. Four to seven observations per finish grade. The finding worth taking away is the separation between the grades, not any single figure inside a band.
- One region, one month. Collected over five days in September 2026, mostly for sites in Cavite and Laguna. It says nothing about Visayas or Mindanao pricing, or about next year.
- Published by a contractor, not a neutral party. Halamanan builds pools and poolside work, so weigh this the way you would any figures published by a company that also quotes for the job. Contractor names and individual rates are not published, because those are their prices to quote and not ours to circulate.
The wrong conclusion to draw from this page
The tempting reading is: pools cost about ₱22,500 per square metre at the bottom of the table, so anyone quoting ₱40,000 is overcharging. That arithmetic works and the conclusion is wrong.
The three columns are different products. The gap between the standard column and the architect-led column is not one contractor being greedy, it is Sukabumi stone against ceramic tile, a jacuzzi and spillway against a plain shell, a stamped design against a chat message. The cheapest quote we collected excluded permits. Another excluded decking. A third was priced off an advertisement and had never seen the site.
The useful comparison is within a column, not across the table. Work out which grade you actually want, then compare quotes inside that grade, and check that each one includes the same things before you compare the totals at all.
We asked seven contractors for the same 32 sqm pool in the same town. Five came back between ₱1,000,000 and ₱1,100,000, and their inclusion lists were broadly similar: premium tile, a jacuzzi or water feature, lights, a pump room. One came in at ₱850,000 with standard tile and no features, and one at ₱1,400,000 listing the tile and nothing else.
So the ₱1.4M quote is 35 percent above a pack of five that were quoting more inclusions. Nothing on any of their pages would tell a buyer that, and nobody holding two of those quotes could work it out.
Why smaller pools cost more per square metre
You pay per square metre of water. You build floor and walls.
Floor area grows with length times width. Wall area grows with the perimeter, and perimeter grows slower than area. So the bigger the pool, the less wall you build for each square metre of water you get.
| Pool | Water surface | Wall area | Total built | Built per sqm of water |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4m x 3m | 12 sqm | 21 sqm | 33 sqm | 2.75 |
| 8m x 4m | 32 sqm | 36 sqm | 68 sqm | 2.12 |
| 11m x 5m | 55 sqm | 48 sqm | 103 sqm | 1.87 |
That explains about half of it. The rest is fixed cost. One pump, one filter, one control panel, one pump enclosure, one mobilisation, one set of drawings. Those cost the same whether the pool is 12 sqm or 55 sqm. Spread over 12 sqm that is roughly ₱15,000 per square metre of the price you pay. Spread over 55 sqm it is about ₱3,300.
Which makes plunge pools the worst value per square metre
A 3m x 2.5m pool still needs the full equipment set, a mobilisation and an enclosure. If a contractor quotes you a flat per-square-metre rate on a pool under about 20 sqm, either they are losing money or the price will change once drawings exist. Small pools should be quoted as a lump sum.
One published price ladder we looked at charged exactly ₱200,000 for each step up in size, across three sizes. The steps were 4 and 4.5 square metres, so the additional space was priced at ₱44,000 to ₱50,000 per square metre. On a pool that size the additional build cost is a fraction of that.
How depth changes the price
Depth does not appear in water-surface area at all. It drives wall area, excavation volume and the structural design, and it is the most common reason two quotes for "the same pool" come back different.
| Average depth | Built surface | Indicative total | Per sqm of water |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2 m | 60 sqm | ₱751,000 | ₱23,500 |
| 1.5 m | 68 sqm | ₱814,000 | ₱25,400 |
| 1.8 m | 75 sqm | ₱876,000 | ₱27,400 |
| 2.1 m | 82 sqm | ₱939,000 | ₱29,400 |
The water surface is 32 sqm in every row. The price moves 25 percent.
When you compare quotes, check the depth profile before you compare anything else. A contractor quoting a flat 1.2 m pool will always look cheaper than one quoting 1.5 m with a deep end, and the headline size will not show it.
"Waterfall" means three different things
This one costs buyers real money, because all three arrive in a quote under the same word.
| What it is | Indicative cost | What you are getting |
|---|---|---|
| Wall spout or sheer descent | around ₱95,000 | A manufactured spillway lip or spout set into an existing wall, plumbed off the pool's own circulation. Cheap because the wall already exists. |
| Spa corner, integrated | around ₱140,000 | A seating spa poured as part of the same shell, sharing the coping and usually the same pump and filter with a blower added. |
| Built waterfall, 3 to 4 m | around ₱280,000 | A separate structure with its own stonework and pump line. |
The first two are backed out of a single contractor's quotes at two different sizes. The third is a direct quote for the feature on its own. Treat all three as indicative.
Two quotes can both say "with waterfall" and be ₱185,000 apart on that line alone. Ask which one you are being quoted, and ask whether the wall it spills from is already there.
What "premium finish" actually costs
Every quote in our set that used the word premium meant the tile. So we priced the tile, material only, on the same 8m x 4m pool used throughout this page.
| Finish | ₱ per sqm | Material on this pool | Added per sqm of water surface |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ordinary ceramic, 20 x 20 cm | 475 | 39,900 | baseline |
| Sukabumi stone, 20 x 20 cm | 2,200 | 184,800 | 4,500 |
| Glass mosaic, mid grade | 2,311 | 194,100 | 4,800 |
| Spanish porcelain, 33 x 33 cm | 2,984 – 3,535 | 250,700 – 297,000 | 6,600 – 8,000 |
| Spanish glass mosaic | 4,308 – 4,776 | 361,900 – 401,200 | 10,100 – 11,300 |
| Glass penny mosaic | 5,422 | 455,400 | 13,000 |
84 sqm is the tiled area for this pool once walls, steps and cutting waste are counted, the same figure used in the Sukabumi question further down. Where a retailer showed both a sale and a regular price, the regular price is used. Iridescent and gold-leaf grades are import-to-order in the Philippines and no local seller publishes a price for them, so they are not in the table.
The most expensive mosaic on a Philippine shelf costs more than the entire premium tier
Go back to the table at the top of this page. For a 32 sqm pool, the whole gap between the standard column and the premium column is about ₱7,500 per square metre. Glass penny mosaic adds ₱13,000 per square metre in material alone.
So the premium column is not imported glass. It's Sukabumi stone or a mid-grade mosaic, plus a feature. If a contractor quotes you the premium band and names a top-shelf mosaic, one of the two is wrong.
What one contractor charged for the same upgrade
Cross-contractor comparisons are weak evidence for a finish premium, because they carry the contractor's own pricing with them. One contractor in our set quoted both finishes to the same buyer, which removes that problem.
| Quote | Total | Per sqm of surface | Shell rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 sqm, plain tile, all-in | 680,000 | 24,286 | 6,642 |
| 32 sqm, Sukabumi finish | 890,000 | 27,813 | 8,896 |
| Sukabumi premium, size held constant | 153,000 | +34% |
His 28 sqm shell rate applied to a 32 sqm pool implies ₱737,000 for the same pool in plain tile. The ₱153,000 is the difference between that and his quoted ₱890,000, so it is derived from his own rate rather than quoted directly.
₱153,000 is less than the ₱184,800 the stone costs at retail. He is buying below shelf price, using a thinner or lower grade, or absorbing part of it. Other contractors charged up to ₱235,000 for the same upgrade, and one quoted a Sukabumi-only pool at a shell rate 24 percent above his.
The useful number is the ratio rather than the peso figure. Sukabumi adds about 34 percent to the shell rate. Anyone charging much more than that is selling you the stone at a markup, and anyone charging much less is not buying the stone you think they are. Ask which grade and what thickness.
Buying the stone yourself
One contractor offered a third route. He quotes the pool at his ceramic price and, if you supply the Sukabumi, deducts the tile from the contract. His deduction was ₱35 per piece.
The size turned out to be 30 x 30 cm, which is ₱389 per square metre. That is below the ₱475 that ordinary 20 x 20 pool ceramic costs at retail, so he is deducting roughly what the tile costs him and not a peso more.
Two things follow. The first is that ₱35 for a 30 x 30 piece is builder's-grade floor tile, not pool-rated tile, so his ₱850,000 is a more basic finish than the price alone suggests. Ask what the tile actually is before you compare his number to anyone else's.
The deduction covers the tile he stops buying, not the 1,254 extra pieces he starts laying
Sukabumi sells in 10 x 10 and 20 x 20 cm formats, and the small format is structural rather than decorative: it is what lets stone follow a curved shell and a coved floor-to-wall transition. Swapping 30 x 30 ceramic for 20 x 20 stone takes the piece count on this pool from about 846 to about 2,100.
That is 2.5 times the pieces across the same surface, every one of them aligned by hand. The grout volume barely moves. The labour does. A contractor who agrees to a straight material deduction has agreed to lay two and a half times the pieces for the same money, and he will either come back for a labour adder, or he will not, and you will see it in the joints.
| Route | Total outlay | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Quoted directly with Sukabumi | 890,000 | Sukabumi, no water feature, 10-year structure |
| Ceramic contract, you buy the stone | 946,000 – 1,005,000 | Sukabumi, no water feature, before any labour adder for the piece count |
| Quoted directly, fuller package | 1,000,000 | Sukabumi, jacuzzi, US-brand equipment, cleaning kit, 10-year structure |
The middle row is ₱850,000 less a ₱29,600 tile deduction, plus 84 sqm of stone at ₱1,500 to ₱2,200 per square metre. The low end assumes you can buy Sukabumi at trade.
Buying the stone yourself is the worst of the three. It costs more than having it quoted directly, it does not include a water feature, it puts the risk of a cracked or short delivery on you, and it leaves an unpriced labour argument waiting at the tiling stage. It only makes sense if you are buying the stone well below ₱1,500 per square metre, and even then the gap is thin.
The two direct quotes land at ₱890,000 and ₱1,000,000, and the second includes a jacuzzi, branded equipment and a cleaning kit. For this size, this finish and this location, that is the price.
The part nobody prices: joints and flatness
Material is the smaller half of a finish upgrade, and the rest of it hides in three places.
Grout volume. A 25 mm mosaic chip needs about 1.25 kg of grout per square metre. A 600 x 600 tile needs 0.16 kg. That's 7.8 times the grout across the same area, worked and sponged off across 7.8 times the joint length. The figures come from the manufacturer's own consumption formula and match its published coverage rate.
Grout type. Glass takes all of its bond from the adhesive, because the chip absorbs nothing. Cement grout shrinks as it cures and stays porous, which lets water into the bed behind the sheet, and that is the usual reason mosaic comes off in whole sheets rather than single chips. Epoxy is the answer, and it is a separate material line with a labour premium because it has to be cleaned off within minutes. No Philippine retailer we found publishes epoxy grout by pack weight, so we can't give you a per-square-metre figure for it. Ask for it as its own line.
Substrate flatness. A 25 mm chip shows every deviation in the shell. A 600 mm tile bridges them. Mosaic therefore needs the shell brought to a flatness the contractor may not have priced, and on a curved shell that is hand work. Philippine plastering runs ₱150 to ₱320 per square metre installed, so one corrective pass over 84 sqm is ₱12,600 to ₱26,900. That rate is for wall plastering, not pool plastering, so read it as a floor rather than an estimate.
Published Philippine tiling labour sits at ₱350 to ₱600 per square metre for any tile. We could not find a single Philippine source that separates mosaic labour from large-format labour, which means the market itself has not published the number. Mosaic is several times slower per square metre by any trade reckoning. Get that rate from your contractor directly, in writing, and do not accept a general tiling rate for a mosaic pool.
The pool is about a third of a luxury project
The pools that photograph as luxury are rarely expensive because of the pool. Here is the same 8m x 4m shell with the things that actually change how it looks, each priced from a quote in our set.
| Item | On this pool |
|---|---|
| Deck, 45 sqm at ₱8,000 to ₱10,000 per sqm | 360,000 – 450,000 |
| Poolside planting, 60 sqm at ₱5,500 per sqm | 330,000 |
| Built waterfall, 3 to 4 m | 280,000 |
| Spa corner | 140,000 |
| Heat pump, salt chlorinator, cover | 290,000 |
| Finish upgrade from ceramic to imported glass mosaic | 322,000 – 361,000 |
| Total outside the pool contract | 1,720,000 – 1,850,000 |
Against ₱850,000 to ₱1,000,000 for the pool itself, that puts the pool at 31 to 37 percent of what gets spent. The deck alone costs more than upgrading the finish from ceramic tile to Sukabumi stone, twice over.
This total is assembled, not quoted
Every line above is a price someone quoted for that item. Nobody quoted us all of them on one job, so the total is our arithmetic and not a contract figure. Read it as a scale check, not a budget.
The deck figure moves fastest. 45 sqm is what a 1.5 m walkway around this pool comes to, and deck area is set by the walkway width rather than the pool size, so widening the walkway to 2.5 m takes the deck to 85 sqm and the deck cost past ₱680,000. Anyone quoting you a deck without agreeing the walkway width first is guessing.
Stone for pool decks is sold almost entirely on staying cool underfoot, and the claims contradict each other. One supplier says black lava stone absorbs heat and so keeps the surface comfortable, which is the opposite of what absorbing heat does. Another says a white stone does not absorb heat, which no opaque material manages. Neither publishes a measurement, and the same suppliers cite an accredited laboratory when they make a slip-resistance claim, so they know how to do it when they have the data. There is real measured research on this, and it says something more useful than either marketing line. We went through it in the premium materials guide, along with what the measured research actually shows about cool pool decks: colour is worth about 4 to 5 °C in tropical conditions, texture about 2.6 °C, and a single year of soiling costs 7 to 11 °C, which is more than the colour choice.
What a standard concrete pool package included
Across the quotes we collected, most contractors described an "all-in package" covering:
- Reinforced concrete shell, floor and walls
- Waterproofing
- Plaster and standard ceramic pool tile
- Coping around the perimeter, commonly 30 cm wide
- Circulation pump, sand filter and control panel
- Skimmers, main drain, return inlets and uPVC pipework
- Underwater lights, usually 2
- Pump room or enclosure
- Excavation and spoil removal
- Plans and drawings
- Cleaning accessories, in some cases
What "all-in" did not include
Every contractor we asked confirmed at least one of these sits outside the package. Two volunteered it without being asked.
- Building permit and LGU fees. Required for a residential pool. One contractor confirmed plans were included but permits were not.
- Village or subdivision construction bond. Often partly non-refundable. Exclusive villages also restrict work to daytime hours, which adds 2 to 3 weeks.
- Pool deck. Quoted separately at ₱8,000 to ₱10,000 per square metre. A 2 m walkway around an 8m x 4m pool is 64 sqm, so the deck can approach two thirds of the pool's own price. Coping around the pool edge is not decking.
- Poolside landscaping. ₱5,500 per square metre and up.
- Water features beyond whatever the package names.
- Electrical supply from your main panel to the equipment room, in most packages.
- Water for the first fill, and VAT.
What the warranty actually covered
Four contractors stated warranty terms for the same 32 sqm pool. Three of them quoted exactly ₱1,000,000.
| Quoted | What was included | Structure | Equipment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 1,000,000 | premium finish | 5 years | 1 year |
| B | 1,000,000 | premium finish | 3 years | 6 months, factory defect only |
| C | 1,000,000 | Sukabumi, jacuzzi, US-brand equipment, lights, fittings, cleaning kit, pump room, handover training | 10 years | not stated |
| D | 890,000 | Sukabumi | 10 years | not stated |
At ₱1,000,000 for the same pool, the structural warranty was 3 years, 5 years or 10 years
A, B and C quoted the identical figure for the identical 8m x 4m pool in the identical municipality. One gives you three years on the part you cannot inspect. Another gives you ten, and throws in a jacuzzi, branded equipment and a cleaning kit.
Warranty length tracks nothing visible in the price. If you are comparing quotes on the number alone you are comparing the one variable that happens to be equal.
Back the jacuzzi out of C at the ₱140,000 the same market charges for one, and C's pool-only equivalent is ₱860,000. That is below B's ₱1,000,000, for a better finish, better equipment and more than three times the structural cover. Two quotes at the same number were not the same offer.
D is the useful control. Same finish as C, no jacuzzi, ₱890,000, same ten years. So ten years is not one contractor being unusual, it is what this segment of the Cavite market offers. The three and five year quotes are the outliers, and both of them were asking full price.
None of which means a ten-year warranty is worth ten years. It costs nothing to write and is worth what the company is worth in year eight, which is the one thing a quotation cannot tell you. Ask how long they have been trading, ask to see a pool they finished five years ago, and get the terms in writing split into structure and equipment, with what voids them.
Estimate your own pool
Set the dimensions and depth, pick a finish and add whatever features you want. The calculator uses the same cost structure described above, so the numbers it gives sit inside the table's bands.
Budgetary estimate, not a quotation. Excludes permits, village bonds, VAT and anything not selected.
How much is a 15x30 pool?
15 x 30 feet is 4.57 m x 9.14 m, which is 41.8 square metres of water surface. At the standard finish grade and 1.5 m average depth that lands around ₱950,000, or roughly ₱22,700 per square metre.
It is a common size because it is a standard American rectangle, not because it suits Philippine lots. If you are working from a US plan, check that it still leaves a usable walkway on all four sides once you place it inside your setbacks.
What is the most expensive part of building a pool?
The shell. On a standard 8m x 4m pool, the concrete, rebar, waterproofing, plaster, tile and the labour to build them come to about two thirds of the total.
| Component | Share of the total |
|---|---|
| Shell, waterproofing and tile | 65% |
| Equipment, pump room, mobilisation | 22% |
| Coping and edge | 7% |
| Excavation and hauling | 6% |
Which matters when you are comparing quotes. The shell is where a cheap bid gets cheap, and it is the part you cannot inspect once the pool is full. Thin rebar and a skipped waterproofing layer look identical to the proper version on handover day, and show up as a leak in year two.
This page is about built-in concrete pools
Above-ground frame pools and inflatable play pools are a different product, and they run from a few thousand pesos to a few hundred thousand. Mixing them into a per-square-metre figure for construction is what produces the very wide ranges you see quoted elsewhere. Nothing on this page applies to them.
Common questions
Which type of pool is the cheapest?
For a permanent pool, concrete is usually the cheapest per square metre in the Philippines, which surprises people who have read American guides where fibreglass wins.
A fibreglass shell listed at ₱714,295 for a 6m x 3m plunge pool works out to about ₱39,700 per square metre before it is in the ground. A complete concrete pool at that size, including excavation, equipment and coping, ran ₱31,000 to ₱35,000 per square metre in the quotes we collected. Shell suppliers typically point you to a separate installer, so excavation, crane, backfill, plumbing and deck come on top.
Above-ground and inflatable pools are a different product class entirely, from a few thousand pesos to a few hundred thousand. They are not comparable to a built-in pool and should not be read off the same table.
How much is a swimming pool per sqm?
Between ₱19,000 and ₱64,500 per square metre of water surface, depending on size and finish grade. A 32 sqm pool with standard ceramic tile sat around ₱22,500 to ₱29,000 per square metre in the quotes we collected, and the same pool in premium stone with water features ran ₱30,000 to ₱37,000.
The rate falls as the pool gets bigger. Quoting one number without a size attached is the most common way these figures get misused.
Magkano magpagawa ng swimming pool sa Pilipinas?
Ang 8m x 4m na concrete pool na may standard na tiles ay nasa ₱850,000 hanggang ₱1,000,000 base sa mga quotation na nakalap namin noong Setyembre 2026. Kung Sukabumi stone at may jacuzzi o waterfall, umaabot ito ng ₱1,100,000 hanggang ₱1,400,000.
Hindi kasama sa karamihan ng "all-in package" ang building permit, ang bond sa subdivision, ang decking sa paligid ng pool, at ang VAT. Tanungin ninyo ito bago pumirma.
Mas mahal ang bawat square meter kapag maliit ang pool, dahil pareho lang ang gastos sa pump, filter at mobilisation kahit maliit o malaki ang sukat.
How much does a pool cost per square foot in the Philippines?
Roughly ₱2,090 to ₱2,694 per square foot for a standard-finish pool in the 25 to 35 sqm range, and ₱2,787 to ₱3,437 per square foot in premium tile.
Philippine contractors quote per square metre, so you will not be given a per-square-foot figure. One square metre is 10.76 square feet.
How much does Sukabumi stone add to a pool?
Sukabumi was quoted at ₱2,200 per square metre as a material in September 2026. A 32 sqm pool needs roughly 84 sqm of tile once you allow for walls, steps and cutting waste, so the stone alone is about ₱184,800.
One contractor quoted us both finishes, which is the only clean read in the set. His 28 sqm pool in plain tile implies ₱737,000 for the same pool at 32 sqm. He quoted ₱890,000 with Sukabumi. That is a ₱153,000 premium, less than the ₱184,800 the stone costs at retail.
Other contractors charged up to ₱235,000 for the same upgrade. So it is ₱150,000 to ₱235,000 on a 32 sqm pool, and at the low end you are close to the contractor's own cost of the stone.
What pool warranty is normal in the Philippines?
Structural cover of 3 to 10 years and equipment cover of 6 months to 1 year, across the four contractors in our set who stated terms. Ten years was the most common answer.
Three of them quoted exactly ₱1,000,000 for the same 32 sqm pool and offered 3, 5 and 10 years. Warranty length tracks nothing you can see in the price, so it has to be asked for separately.
They should be two separate numbers. One of the two limited equipment cover to factory defects only, which excludes an installation fault, the most likely thing to go wrong. Ask for the terms in writing and ask what voids them.
What is the average cost of an infinity pool in the Philippines?
An infinity edge added roughly 30 percent to the shell in the quotes and advertised packages we looked at. On an 8m x 4m pool that puts it around ₱985,000 to ₱1,105,000 at a standard finish, against ₱850,000 for the same pool with a conventional edge.
The edge needs a catch basin, a balance tank and extra pump capacity, and the level tolerance on the spill lip is tight, so the premium is construction difficulty rather than a styling charge.
How deep should a swimming pool be?
Most Philippine residential pools are built with a 1.2 m shallow end and 1.5 to 1.8 m at the deep end. Six feet is 1.83 m.
Depth is worth deciding before you compare quotes, because it changes the price and does not show in the headline size. The same 8m x 4m pool costs about 25 percent more at 2.1 m average depth than at 1.2 m, and the water surface is 32 sqm in both.
Red flags in a pool quote
- A flat per-square-metre rate on a pool under 20 sqm.
- No depth stated anywhere in the document.
- No exclusions list. Everything is included until it isn't.
- More than 50 percent due before work starts.
- One warranty figure covering both the structure and the equipment. In the quotes we saw these ranged from 3 to 10 years on structure and 6 months to 1 year on equipment, so a single blended number is hiding something.
- A price far below the others at the same finish grade. The shell is where that gets funded.
- Photographs that are renders rather than finished projects. One advertisement we saw carried a price, a warranty claim and an after-sales promise over an image the platform itself had labelled as AI-generated.
- No business registration and no official receipt.
Getting a quotation that holds
Send these four and the first reply is a real number instead of a range:
- Location, down to the subdivision or village
- Pool dimensions, and the depth you want at each end
- Whether the lot is cleared and whether a backhoe can reach the dig
- Site photos, including the access route
If you want us to quote it
We build pools, and we are more expensive than most of the numbers on this page. Ours start at ₱1,200,000 for a 32 sqm pool against a market that will quote you ₱890,000 for the same size.
We published the market rates anyway, including the ones well below our own, because you are going to find them regardless. We would rather you arrive at our quotation already knowing the range, and then decide whether the specification is worth the difference.
We build to a published specification: 200 mm shell, two layers of floor steel, a water-retaining waterproofing system rather than waterproofing cement, named equipment brands on the quotation, and three hold points photographed before anything gets covered up. We also build the deck, the coping and the planting, which on most projects costs more than the pool.
If the pool is already built and something has failed, we repair those too. Leaks, loose tile, failing plaster, green water and dead equipment, diagnosed before they are quoted.
Send us your site and dimensions and we will come back with a scope and a number, in writing, with the exclusions listed.