Building a Concrete Pool 43K

Hi Im Building a concreate pool, I have no idea never built a pool before.
8*4 Meters
3SQM Spa
Heated.


Got the following quote, just wondering is this a good price, or am i missing something


INCLUSIONS are as follows:-
✓ Excavation of swimming pool
✓ Soil to stay on site
✓ S12 Steel Reinforced Bars
✓ 30 MPA concrete pool mix
✓ Filtration Equipment located within 12 meters of the swimming Pool
✓ Filtration system mounted on a pre-cast concrete slab (600mm x 600mm)
✓ 200mm brushed concrete coping
✓ Laying of pavers on coping [client to supply pavers]
✓ Fine hand troweled AUSTRALIAN WHITE with 5% glass bead interior finish
✓ 1 metres to 1.7 metres water depth ✓ 3 sq., meter spa constructed integral to pool including spillway wall, seat footwell, 6 Venturi jets,1 pool light, 1100 watt air blower & air grid interior Australian white with 5% glass bead
✓ Generic Engineers Drawings & Specifications
✓ Detailed Design Drawings for Council (Certifying Authority)
✓ Submission for Council Approval [NOT including Council fees OR Private Certifier]
✓ Supervision by our licenced builder ✓ Goods & Services Tax (G.S.T.) included in the proposal price listed
✓ Complete Hand Over & Commissioning of all the necessary equipment ✓ Chemical balancing of the swimming pool water, on completion
EQUIPMENT ✓ 1 x ASTRAL 1 HP Pump
✓ 1 x ASTRAL C 100 Cartridge Filter
✓ 2 x LED Coloured pool lights with low voltage transformers
✓ 1 x ASTRAL Inverter ECO 1HP 70 heat pump
✓ POOL ACCESSORIES:- ▪ Leaf scoop ▪ Pool brush ▪ Telescopic handle ▪ Vacuum head ▪ Flex hose ▪ Start-up chemicals ▪ Test kit
✓ 2 Pool Returns
✓ 1 Skimmer Box
✓ 1 Hydrostatic relief valve
✓ PRICE: $43,000.00 [ GST included.]

 

• Do they have a pool builder's licence or just a builder's licence
• Are they registered for GST?
• Have they built a pool before
• No mention of home building insurance
• What contract are you signing
• What are you going to for with 50 m³ of spoil?
• What is the rate for excavation in rock?
• What is classified as rock?
• Landscaping
• Coping around pool edge & apron
• Who is providing power to the equipment
• Drainage to sewer for backwash
• How much will site specific engineering drawings cost?
• Soil test?

 

Fencing requirements ?

 

Pool Builder is Bluehaven pool, I believe they have full license .
We using standard builder contract.

Soil to be left on site, im hoping will be used for building new house raise the ground level.

Thanks

 

The novelty of cleaning the pool manually will fade quickly, visit your local pool shop for a quote on a kreepy krauts etc & check if it will be compatible with your filter.

 

If I did another pool I would tile completely.

 

get a price for full tiling rather than trolled beads...tiles are better
price generally is ok
Did they provide a drawing?
Always worthwhile having at least 2, pref 3 quotes to compare

 

OK where we got caught with Blue Haven, 20+ years ago, so add inflation:
- they struck "rock" while digging, extra $800 for that from memory
- allegedly we needed extra reo - we saw it delivered, they came & went, left the reo in the middle of the block. Then it disappeared ... it wasn't used. This was $4800 back then!
- consider pool solar heating (unless your roof is full with solar panels, or you have plans for that)
- the inclusion for solar heating only allowed some short distance for connection to the solar (on the roof - from memory it was 3 m ... considering we have a 2 storey house, & the pump system was 24m away from the house ...
- the inclusion for solar heating was inadequate, we doubled it
- need a pump shed or somewhere to conceal all the equipment
- needed to connect electrical to the pump area
- sand filters are preferable to cartridge filters.

And honestly, I wouldn't bother with the spa. We don't use it, and the jets aren't that good - so if you really want it I'd look into how many spa jets and how strong they are (dependent on the pool pump). I gather heat pumps are very noisy too as well as the blower.

Edit - I would take the equipment list to the local pool shop (or 2 or three) and get their opinions on it. And I don't remember - salt or chlorine, or something else?

 

Oh, I forgot - you need to allow extra for pool coping. At the time it was $1 per cut, to be paid on the day to the guys that do it - our pool has straight edges (& that unused spa!) and somehow 400 copers was $400

 

With all those variations, I don't know how you coped

 

Ughhhhh - a dad joke if I ever heard one......

 

And we upgraded ours to glass (over sand) as it lasts far longer