Hi my name is Sheldon Trieb and own and operate Midwest Container Pools in a small town just outside Kansas City. Thank you for your interest in our pools, we are excited to transform not only the shipping container pool industry but the way people think about pools in general.
At 18 years old in 2000 I got my first job in the pool industry as an installer of above ground pools, that led to being a crew lead and eventually breaking out on my own as a contractor building above ground and inground liner pools. For my crew, efficiency and perfection were number one. By 2008 we had built hundreds of pools when the economy crashed and pool sales practically came to a standstill so a career change was the only option. I ended up joining the Ironworkers union and spent my days playing with cranes and welders until 2016 when I started what would become the leading spray foam insulation company in the midwest.
Our start
For years I thought shipping containers were an awesome platform for projects. So much to a point that I unsuccessfully tried to convince my wife to build a house out of shipping containers. As I constantly scrolled through cool container projects, I started to see them used as swimming pools and really took notice. With my years of prior pool experience I could really break down how cool and cost effective they were and pretty well became obsessed with them for years!
During 2021 when the spray foam industry was finally feeling the effects of covid I had some free time to build our first container pool. Mimicking the ones I’ve seen online we cut the top off the container, welded in the all steel floor, railing around the top of the walls, stairs, landing, and started prepping for paint. I had seen in forums and FB pages that a lot of these container pools had issues with the interior coatings failing so I was on a mission to NOT have this issue. We sandblasted the entire interior of the pool, used an exotic metal etching compound, and sourced the highest rated epoxy primer and paint for metal pools on the market. At this point I thought we had a foolproof plan and everything was going great. I sold that pool to a local guy that had watched our build process through my personal Facebook page.
During the winter we designed our mold and found a company to work with us to produce the custom liners and we were off! While building our first pool with the fiberglass shell we also had a chance to include our spray foam background. The fiberglass needed to be secured in the container in a seamless way, and injection foam was the perfect material for that.
With the fiberglass interior I truly feel like we have the absolute best shipping container pool on the market in the US. We only use Pentair products, PPG paints, and brand new 20′ containers. Coupling this with our fiberglass shells and injection foam, there is little to nothing that can go wrong with these pools and they should last for 15 years or more with little to no issues. That was a big deal with these, since we ship them all over the country, I had to design a product that would be worry free and have a great warranty. I feel like we met those standards.
Moving forward, we are designing more interior shells with different layouts. Expanding our facilities and gearing up to increase our production as we grow at a rapid pace. My 18 year old son, Brenden, has taken an interest in learning every aspect of the build process next to our welders and painters with the idea that one day he will take control of the company and bring some fresh ideas as we transition out of the spray foam industry and focus solely on pools.
