We have young kids and are looking to add a pool to provide some summer activity and relief from the heat. My wife and I both had pools as kids, but that was a long time ago, so I consider us first time pool buyers. Our priorities are on maximizing swimming area for the kids, and keeping maintenance and cost to a minimum, without shorting on any necessary details.
I'm attaching:
1) a copy of our property survey, which has drainage easements we need to work around. Still enough room for what we want to do though.
2) A Visio sketch up I made, roughly to scale, with a Lazy L shaped pool. We were originally leaning towards this shape but are now looking at some other options.
3) Backyard pictures and an overhead shot of our yard from Google Maps.
4) A copy of the original quote we received. There was a second page with a bunch of discounts, but I didn't include it because I'm not really looking for advice on the price.
5) A few of the pool shapes we are considering. We are looking at the 700sqft option in each one.
We have received quotes from the 3 contractors that we could find who are currently installing pools in our area. There are at least 2 more that are not doing installations due to COVID19. 1 of them was for a Fiberglass and 2 for Gunite. All 3 prices were close enough that I wouldn't make a decision based on that. But, the fiberglass pool contractor I consider a throw away. They did not take much time to evaluate what we wanted and just emailed us a number with very little details or effort on their part. No follow up either...
The 2 Gunite quotes were both for 700sqft pools, plus a tanning ledge as requested. Of the 2, we are heavily leaning towards the larger company because they seem to do more of the work themselves vs contract out all the pieces. They also have a better reputation and have been around longer. They have also installed at least 3 other pools in our smallish neighborhood, although they were all done many years ago.
I'm attaching:
1) a copy of our property survey, which has drainage easements we need to work around. Still enough room for what we want to do though.
2) A Visio sketch up I made, roughly to scale, with a Lazy L shaped pool. We were originally leaning towards this shape but are now looking at some other options.
3) Backyard pictures and an overhead shot of our yard from Google Maps.
4) A copy of the original quote we received. There was a second page with a bunch of discounts, but I didn't include it because I'm not really looking for advice on the price.
5) A few of the pool shapes we are considering. We are looking at the 700sqft option in each one.
We have received quotes from the 3 contractors that we could find who are currently installing pools in our area. There are at least 2 more that are not doing installations due to COVID19. 1 of them was for a Fiberglass and 2 for Gunite. All 3 prices were close enough that I wouldn't make a decision based on that. But, the fiberglass pool contractor I consider a throw away. They did not take much time to evaluate what we wanted and just emailed us a number with very little details or effort on their part. No follow up either...
The 2 Gunite quotes were both for 700sqft pools, plus a tanning ledge as requested. Of the 2, we are heavily leaning towards the larger company because they seem to do more of the work themselves vs contract out all the pieces. They also have a better reputation and have been around longer. They have also installed at least 3 other pools in our smallish neighborhood, although they were all done many years ago.
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