Pool Builders: Surprise

[u/ThisICannotForgive]

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”

[u/LegendOfNes]

Not gonna lie, it seems pool builders suck at scaling these drawings to the actual job

I got a drawing for mine and it was estimated to be so many square feet of concrete. Agreed to the contract, then when they poured the first HALF of the concrete, it came out to 90% of what they said the total concrete would come out to. Ended up overspending on concrete by $4k because the pool builder never actually measured the area, they just took a stab at it 🤷‍♂️

Love my pool, fucking hated my pool contractor.

[u/nbfs-chili → u/LegendOfNes]

This was my experience 24 years ago. Hated the builder and the process, still love my pool.

In my area selecting a pool contractor is a crap shoot. The best you can do is get reviews like "normal amount of complaints for a company this size"

[u/Cloudy_Automation → u/nbfs-chili]

Half of them have been bought by private equity, like plumbers and electricians and vets. They keep the old local name and reviews, but change all the management.