- 1. Which size
- The bigger lever now. Every model comes in several lengths, and the spread inside one model beats the spread between models. The Maldives alone runs $54,995 at 23 feet to $80,995 at 40, a $26,000 swing before you have even picked a shape.
- 2. Which pool
- Still a real lever. At 30 feet the Everest starts at $62,995, the Maldives at $65,995 and el Capitan, with its full width tanning ledge, at $69,995. The Sacred sits above all three, because a spa moulded into the shell instead of bolted on beside it is genuinely more pool to build.
- 3. Upgrades and add-ons
- Heaters, automatic covers, lighting, automation, spas, tanning ledges and waterwalls. Every one is quoted flat, as its own line, before you sign. None of them are buried in the base number, which is exactly why the base number can be this low.
- 4. How we get in
- The one people underestimate. A gate we can drive an excavator through and a corner lot we have to crane over the house are two very different jobs. Overhead lines, tight side yards, soft ground and a neighbour's permission all live here.
- 5. What is underground
- Rock or ledge that needs a hammer, groundwater that needs dewatering, old fill, a septic field or utilities that were marked wrong. We cannot see any of that before we dig, so it is handled by written change order with the price agreed before we touch it.