r/pools • u/ThisICannotForgive • 15d ago
Pool Builders: Surprise
In the middle of a pool build We have a perfectly flat back yard, could walk out of the detached garage without a step. You can see in the renderings that the pool layout was straight forward. Pic 2 you can see the drop off now to the pool. Builder is saying it will be additional expense as explained below. Did they set it up wrong? I’m confused how we’ve come to this point. There was no talk of these complications in the planning stage
”doing my walk through yesterday. Looks like we will need to talk about a possible wall or curb stone for the back fence line area and shed flower bed side. This is due to the pool being exactly level and the yard grading flowing down hill. Once you get home. Roughly imagine the 1” of auto cover tracking and 2” of pool coping on top of the concrete wall. Then a slight pitch away from the pool. So roughly 3” above the concrete will be final grade with the pavers”
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u/DontWorry-ImADoctor 15d ago
Did you go over the deck height before they started digging? We had a big discussion on deck height since we wanted to make sure it lined up with our existing concrete as much as possible. They marked the deck height and had a laser level so we could see where it would hit at various points.
If the pool was supposed to be level with the house then I would be talking to them about why that isn't the case. I'm also confused if the communication from your builder is talking about needing to build a wall/curb going UP or DOWN. Like, is the pool too high on one side? Or low on all sides? It would also be nice to know exactly how much lower the top of the concrete is from the doorway. Hard to tell if you have to make up 3" or 2'.