just signed a contract for a new gunite pool

[Mynewpool]

just signed a contract for a new gunite pool....have so many questions and have no idea where to turn? Should I do a diving pool, is the equipment good, how do I ensure quality, is what is a quartz finish??? I am not sure if I got a good deal, but I feel like I did... the owner of a company reminds me of a used car salesman and right now I don't have a lot of confidence...but the contract is signed!!!!

[PoolDoc]

Is the contract final? If it is, why ask these questions?

If it isn't, and you have serious questions, you should put it on hold till we can help you with the answers.

If it's final, but you have some leeway on equipment and other elements, tell us what bits you can still change.

[Mynewpool]

The contract is final, I think. The contract just says "Jandy 2hp pump" "quartz finish". This pool builder checked out okay with the BBB and did my neighbors pool and he was very impressed. The first estimate was for 57,000 but I got him down to 50,000, but I feel like now some of the "bells and whistles" that he said he was going to do.. Are not going to happen. I am not feeling great!

[PoolDoc]

If it's final, it's final.

No pool is EVER perfect. $500,000 will not buy a perfect pool. I've seen them -- I know!

I even designed the equipment system on a luxury indoor pool built on mountain in North Carolina, and then had the architect change his mind on the HVAC system and eat up 3' feet of my equipment space. It turned a very carefully designed piping and equipment system with GREAT access, into a HORRIBLE system that embarrassed me every time I looked at it -- valve and control access was AWFUL. I don't know exactly what that pool cost, but it was well over $400,000 in 1995, for a 75' x 4' deep lap pool. The owner had three horribly ugly clay water pots on the deck, that I kept bumping into with my tools . . . till I found she'd paid over $85,000 for them! I loved swimming laps in it, though! I could watch the sun come up over Grandfather Mountain in the morning, when I swam the north-bound lap.

So have a beer, relax, and enjoy what you get. I've seen people with WONDERFUL pools, that have some little something that's not perfect, and so they don't enjoy what they do have. If you're getting a $50,000 pool . . . you will almost certainly will have a pool that 95% of Americans would love to have . . . if they could have a pool.

Many, many people here enjoy the heck out of $500 Intex pools!

[Mynewpool]

Thanks that does make me feel better