Hello TFP,
I've browsed through these forums and looks like there are many members from DFW here, particularly the northern suburbs. First time pool owners here hoping you can help get me unstuck. I'm already falling into paralysis by over analysis!
We have a blank slate of a backyard that is a decent size for a "cookie cutter" neighborhood.
Privacy isn't really an issue and we have a 8 ft. fence already in place.
The corner of the trampoline is where the patio will extend out to. We will be doing the patio work with a separate company than the PB.
The stakes that you see represent a 16 x 40 area for the pool. We have the space to go a little bigger, maybe 20x42 and still have side yard on the other end of the house you can't see in this picture.
We want to have a deep end - 8.5 or 9 feet.
We have had consultation with 5 PBs. (Prestige, Foley, Hauk, Riverbend Sandler, and Gold Medal) We know people who have built pools with each of them.
We have seen designs from 4, see the 5th tomorrow. Pricing is fairly consistent. I don't feel like I know the technical/equipment requirements well enough yet to compare "apples to apples". But we have a good ballpark of what this project is going to cost.
Oddly enough, all the PBs all seem less than enthused or experienced with "diving" pools since the sport pools/play pools are more common in the neighborhoods here. All have said "this is a big pool" in hesitant and unsure tone. But from reading these forums and talking to neighbors with pools, it seems like no one has ever said "I wish we had gotten a smaller pool."
My main concern is - I'm not wowed by the designs from any of them yet. We asked for a geometric pool in the consultation and they gave us what we asked for. But now seeing it in renderings, it just looks like a big box. I'm having flashbacks to my childhood rec center pool from the 70's (just need to add the swim lane markers, high dive, and toilet bowl blue water)
So I think we should add curves somehow, but not have a completely free form pool. We will not be doing a rock wall or grotto type feature.
My questions are:
How many design revisions are reasonable to ask for? Of the 5 PBs so far, I could eliminate 2 and I wouldn't want to string them along.
And I think we need to expand our PB search beyond who our neighbors have used. So I'm asking TFP members in DFW for more recommendations. (particularly for PBs who service the Plano/Frisco/Prosper/McKinney area)
Just not feeling like we've found "the one" yet. Help?????
Thank you!
I've browsed through these forums and looks like there are many members from DFW here, particularly the northern suburbs. First time pool owners here hoping you can help get me unstuck. I'm already falling into paralysis by over analysis!
We have a blank slate of a backyard that is a decent size for a "cookie cutter" neighborhood.
Privacy isn't really an issue and we have a 8 ft. fence already in place.The corner of the trampoline is where the patio will extend out to. We will be doing the patio work with a separate company than the PB.
The stakes that you see represent a 16 x 40 area for the pool. We have the space to go a little bigger, maybe 20x42 and still have side yard on the other end of the house you can't see in this picture.
We want to have a deep end - 8.5 or 9 feet.
We have had consultation with 5 PBs. (Prestige, Foley, Hauk, Riverbend Sandler, and Gold Medal) We know people who have built pools with each of them.
We have seen designs from 4, see the 5th tomorrow. Pricing is fairly consistent. I don't feel like I know the technical/equipment requirements well enough yet to compare "apples to apples". But we have a good ballpark of what this project is going to cost.
Oddly enough, all the PBs all seem less than enthused or experienced with "diving" pools since the sport pools/play pools are more common in the neighborhoods here. All have said "this is a big pool" in hesitant and unsure tone. But from reading these forums and talking to neighbors with pools, it seems like no one has ever said "I wish we had gotten a smaller pool."
My main concern is - I'm not wowed by the designs from any of them yet. We asked for a geometric pool in the consultation and they gave us what we asked for. But now seeing it in renderings, it just looks like a big box. I'm having flashbacks to my childhood rec center pool from the 70's (just need to add the swim lane markers, high dive, and toilet bowl blue water)
So I think we should add curves somehow, but not have a completely free form pool. We will not be doing a rock wall or grotto type feature.
My questions are:
How many design revisions are reasonable to ask for? Of the 5 PBs so far, I could eliminate 2 and I wouldn't want to string them along.
And I think we need to expand our PB search beyond who our neighbors have used. So I'm asking TFP members in DFW for more recommendations. (particularly for PBs who service the Plano/Frisco/Prosper/McKinney area)
Just not feeling like we've found "the one" yet. Help?????
Thank you!
