Flatlander said:
Beautiful pool and setting!!
Did your PB contractually have a finish date or incentive to finish quickly? I am trying to figure out why a few builds finish in a month or so but most drag on forever. My guess is, it has something to do with $$.
Congrats again, enjoy the summer!!!
Flatlander you ask a good question!
I think mostly we were lucky. I know we chose this PB in part based on references from other customers who said they were focused and organized with in-house labor and tightly controlled subcontractors, so I suspect this helped move things along. We thought their design and bid was fair but others have reported that this PB charges more than other very, very good PB's. So maybe their workload was a bit less. I really don't know.
The sales guy said it is 4 weeks of work to build a pool that will take anywhere from 5-10 weeks to complete depending on weather and whether..........whether they run into unexpected problems such as boulders or bedrock. Other than losing about 4 days to rain just before plaster phase we had none of that.
The construction supervisor said to plan on 8 weeks +/- 1 or 2 weeks. He agreed with the principle of what the sales guy said but wanted us to be prepared for reality of potential delays and snags. We told them we wanted it finished for a party we were planning in early August and for my daughter's birthday in late August. They said they'd try.
The payment draws were tied to major milestones so they had that incentive to move quickly but I think most PB contracts are set up that way. We did not negotiate special terms.
That is the best I can do to answer your question. We feel very lucky.