The Tampa Standard Gunite
A 16×32 kidney gunite pool with attached spa, screened lanai, and the classic Sun Belt package.
A Wesley Chapel couple in their fifties built what Florida builders call 'the standard package' — a kidney-shape gunite pool, attached spa, and a mansard-roof screen enclosure to keep the mosquitos and pool debris out.
The pool is priced right in the middle of the Florida gunite market. Everything about it is conventional: kidney shape (the classic Sun Belt silhouette from the 1980s, now back in fashion), Diamond Brite interior in French Grey (a quartz aggregate that reads soft blue-green in water), and a 7×7 spa with three jets spilling into the pool.
The screen enclosure — common throughout Florida but rare elsewhere — added $16,800 to the project but saves on weekly cleaning and dramatically reduces evaporation. The homeowners estimate it also adds about 6–8 weeks of usable pool time in winter by breaking the wind.
Saltwater was specified because French Grey quartz is salt-tolerant. Plaster would have been $3,000 cheaper but would need resurfacing two to three years sooner under salt.
