First off does anyone know WATTS POOL in Houston TX. I've looked around and although they have been in business since the 1960's I can't seem to find any recommendations or reviews.

Second after much reading we are just starting to look at companies to bid on our pool, but we have a pretty good idea of what we are looking for.

I pass by Watts everyday so on a whim I decided to stop in and see if I could schedual someone to come out and give me a quote. They sat me down with a designer. I drew him a sketch since my husband and I had just looked over our survey and walked our yard not to mentioned measured everything. His ball park price left me floored since the pool we are looking to build is smaller and simpler than many I have seen posted on this board for this area.

So I'm just wondering if I'm just that far off base.
What we are looking to build is a 14'x29' pool 4'/5.5'/4.5' depth changes. Possibly a 7' spa centered along the length. With the stairs leading into the pool on the left of the spa and a bench to the right of the spa.
3' decking around, most likely stamped concrete. Pebble tec since I like the longevity. Tile for the water line and simple coping that can handle a SWG pool (he recommends against SWG says it gives too much trouble with the coping and decking materials, but... I've read enough to know that that is seriously material dependent.) There is an extra 12'x28' deck that we'd like poured, again stamped concrete. and filling in the 6' that's left from the back of the house to the edge of the pool (another 120 sqft).

Anyways. His main concern was why we were orienting the pool the way we were. There is a 32'x30' large square area left over to the right of the pool, the main reason is that we have kids and that area is where their jungle gym sits.

He wasn't big on pebble tec and said that a white plaster could last long time with proper maintenance (did I mention they are a service center too?). And that pebble tec would add about 4500 to the quote.

He went on to say that using pentair equipment (san the SWG) the pool would run 45k-55k.

Is that reasonable? Mind you this wasn't an official bid just a ball park. He did seem quite surprised that we had such a preset idea as to what we are looking for and where we wanted it.

Houston builds seem cheaper than austin for some reason. Based on what I have seen on this site I would expect 35-45k for houston (including spa and heater and pebble).

We got 5 quotes that ranged in price from 40K-90K

The back of the house is at the bottom of the picture.
Gas, Electric and Water meters are on the right side of the house about 20' from the bottom of the picture. Water spigot is at the back left corner of the house.

Red dashed lines on left and right are the fence lines. Red dashed line between the green area delineates the easement from our back fence line. There is an electrical box in the back right corner in the easement.

Backyard is level ground there's suppose to be a slight slope to drain towards the front/sides but not really.

There is a 10'x10' patio currently where you see the 13'x27'

Live in NW Harris county outside Houston city limits, not sure of the permits.

Now he said BASE PRICE was 45k-55k not including pebble tec or the swg.

I would say that that is likely high on the rough guestimate.

Have him put things on paper as a real proposal then lets look.

Scott

We have the pool man, redman pools, pool craft, watts, aquascapes coming in to look over the yard.

N.M. I found the email though facebook