Pool Construction & Repair
Custom luxury pools and structural repairs, engineered for the lot and built to last.
Pools engineered from the pile tip up, on the Florida Panhandle.
Black Swan Escapes designs, engineers and builds custom pools from Panama City, with an in-house structural engineering team for the elevated pools, pools on piles and load-bearing shells other builders shy away from.
On the record
A licence, an engineering team and two names on every job.
- Florida licence
- CPC1460787Certified Pool/Spa Contractor, Florida DBPR. Active through 31 August 2028.
- Qualifier
- David Tajib, Principal & Director of Planning. Planning, consulting, design development, engineering design and permitting.
- On site
- Tim Kapkaev, Direct Project Manager. Subcontractors, quality control and schedule, from day one of construction to final inspection and handover.
- Engineering
- An in-house structural engineering team, with StructureMind Inc as structural engineering partner.
- Architecture
- Shahigh Studio, architectural design partner on the Florida Panhandle.
- Office
- 312 Thomas Dr. Suite 3, Panama City, FL 32408
How a Black Swan pool stands up, layer by layer.
Read it like one of our section drawings: the water you see, and everything under the waterline that keeps it there on Panhandle sand.
Water
Drawn, modeled and walked through before a stake goes in.
AquaVision Studio is the design side of Black Swan Escapes: pool and poolscape design, 3D modeling and rendering, and immersive virtual tours, with the landscape and hardscape worked into the same model. You see the water line against the house before anyone digs.
Shell
A shell built for this lot, or brought back to sound.
New custom pools are precision-built for durability first and looks second. On an existing pool, structural integrity is restored before anything cosmetic, then finishes are modernised and the new work is tied in so it reads as one pool, not a patch.
Circulation
Water that keeps moving, quietly, for years.
Filtration, precision piping runs and equipment upgrades, installed, repaired and tuned so the pool runs efficiently. The equipment pad is planned with the shell, not squeezed in after it.
Structure
The part other builders shy away from.
Custom structural pool shells, elevated pools, pools on piles and complex load-bearing designs are engineered by the Black Swan Escapes in-house structural team, with StructureMind Inc as structural engineering partner. On a raised coastal house, the pool has to stand on the same thinking as the house.
Ground
Every project starts with the lot, not the brochure.
Feasibility, planning and budgeting come first, for homeowners, developers and other contractors alike. David Tajib handles permitting and engineering; Tim Kapkaev carries it on site from the first day of construction to final inspection and handover.
Can you build the pool other builders say this lot can't hold?
Yes, and the same team designs it, repairs it, re-finishes it and keeps the water moving. Five ways to start.
AquaVision Studio
Pool and poolscape design, 3D models, renders and virtual tours before construction starts.
Remodeling & Resurfacing
New finishes, functional upgrades and structural enhancements, tied cleanly into the pool you have.
Consulting
Feasibility, design guidance, construction oversight and budgeting for homeowners, developers and contractors.
Equipment & Piping
Filtration, precision piping and equipment upgrades, installed, repaired and tuned for efficiency.
Sites in progress
Panhandle lots, Santa Rosa Beach to Southport.
Our own photos from active sites. A pool here is planned around the ground, the piles and the house it sits beside.
Pool shell
Shell set out behind a new build
The pool form laid in the rear yard of a finished two-storey house, before decking and planting.
On piles
A coastal house raised on piles
Framed and sheathed over a bare sand lot, with the ground level left open beneath the decks.
Framing
Timber and block going up
Block columns and timber framing on a multi-storey house, the roof trusses still open to the sky.
Southport
The A-Frame
A black standing-seam A-frame on a cleared lot, from the Southport project.
Wrap porch
Porch house in the pines
A wrap-porch house set on piles among pine and live oak, lumber stacked for the next stage.
Garage side
Two storeys, clean-up next
Siding and windows in, garage door open, the last of the construction rubble still on the drive.
“From custom structural pool shells to elevated pools, pools on piles, and complex load-bearing designs, we deliver solutions that others shy away from.”
Bring the lot. We’ll start the drawing.
A raised house, a tight coastal yard or a pool that needs its structure put right: call the Panama City office and talk it through with the people who will engineer and build it.
(850) 865-0987312 Thomas Dr. Suite 3
Panama City, FL 32408
blackswanescapes@gmail.com