Our builder connected us with a pool builder, but he was just that, a pool builder, and didn't seem to have any design ideas. We weren't impressed. Our builder then had us go to another pool builder and this one was much more creative. We sat with him for 4 hours, brainstormed and he designed it on his design program as we spoke. By the end of the meeting we had a design and exact pricing. Using a good pool designer/builder also means that he knows he can build what he is designing. Our architect had drawn a pool into the plans, but the orientation and design wasn't the best fit once we actually started building.

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