Astorga Outdoor Living is a Houston custom pool and outdoor living company run by its founder, Hector Aguiar, a working project manager who answers for design, schedule, and scope personally. We’re a new company with deliberate discipline. Written scopes, honest labels, one accountable relationship.
Why Astorga exists
Most pool problems trace back to the same roots. Vague scopes, surprise change orders, and nobody clearly accountable. Astorga was built around fixing exactly that, with design before dirt, a scope that says what it means, and one person who answers from the first site walk through startup.
Design first, then dirt
Every project starts with design, not a price sheet. The pool, the decking, the shade, and the drainage are drawn for your specific lot, with setbacks, easements, trees, sun path, and the way your family uses the yard all on the page before anything is priced. That drawing becomes the written scope, and the scope becomes the proposal. How an Astorga project runs walks through the six phases and what you decide at each one.
How projects are managed
One point of contact from the first site walk through startup and orientation. Permits and HOA review are sequenced into the plan and tracked rather than hoped for. Equipment is specified by model in the proposal, so there is nothing vague to argue about later; Astorga is a Pentair Partner, and Pentair is the equipment we specify. If something changes, it changes in writing, with a price, before the work happens.
How construction gets built
Every Astorga project runs through one accountable relationship. We own the homeowner experience end to end, with thoughtful design, a written scope that says what it means, coordinated scheduling, and quality checks at every stage. You always know what happens next, what it costs, and who answers. Astorga Outdoor Living LLC is insured, and proof of coverage is available whenever you ask.
The written scope
Included, in writing
Engineered plans, permit and HOA responsibility, every construction phase by name, equipment by model, finish, tile, coping, and decking by product, electrical scope, startup and orientation.
Excluded, in writing
The lines teaser quotes leave out: utility relocation, gas and electrical service work, drainage correction, dewatering, and anything the site walk shows your lot needs. Named, so there are no surprises.
Owner decisions
The choices that are yours, listed with the date each one has to be made so the schedule holds.
Greater Houston, one jurisdiction at a time
A Katy address can mean four different permitting offices; a Memorial address can mean its own city with its own tree rules. We build across the Greater Houston area, and each area we serve has its own page with the permit path, the soil, and the HOA process spelled out. See where we build.
What we build
- Custom gunite pools, designed for the lot and engineered for Gulf Coast clay.
- Pool and spa combinations, poured as one structure.
- Outdoor kitchens, covered patios, and complete outdoor living, planned with the pool.
- Pool remodeling and restoration, assessment first.
- Small and plunge pools for compact lots.
What we will never do
- Present a design concept or licensed photo as our completed work
- Invent reviews, awards, or project counts
- Bury exclusions in fine print
- Make a change to your project without your written approval and a price
That list stays on this page as the standard you can hold us to.
What customers say
Our reviews live on Google, where we cannot edit them. Read them there, and hold us to the same standard.
Start with the lot, the goals, and the questions.
A consultation is a site walk and an honest conversation, not a sales pitch. We help you figure out the next step, even if the next step is not us.
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