Doughboy or Esther Williams????

[hoffmans]

tracyb
Are those quotes from your local dealer?

[hoffmans]

Dennis!
ahhhh.. don't be a pool tease!

You must have read my mind because I had thought about how much it would cost me to fly you and your wife up here, put you guys up in the Residence Inn for 2 nights and have you two do our install...... But I decided my husband would think i had finally fallen off my rocker. He is all man and would have taken it personally - as though I thought he wasn't capable enough to put our pool up. But I am sure we can pull it off by ourselves.


Anyways looks like tracyb is close to deciding which pool to get.

Meanwhile, I am going to go to the doughboy website and drool over the decks.


~Hoffmans

[prh129]

Tracey,

Both prices seem high to me - I don't know if that is related to where you live or not but in the northeast, the 24' round Desert Spring was less than 4500.00 for pool, pump, ladder, manual vac, hand skimmer and installation (not including water or electrical work). I would figure about another 500.00 for the 28' size so I would think you should be closer to 5K rather than 7K. Dennis seems to have the same thoughts as well.

There have been a few people on the forum who have the Artesian echo canyon pool and seem very happy with them. You might want to check out their website and find the local dealer to you. Get a price and find out if there is an installer in your area that is familiar with these pools and see if you can get a quote from them also. You can either use that information to try to negotiate a better deal with the EW or Doughboy dealer or go with the Artesian if they won't.

Peter

[traceyb]

yes they are.from the dealer around here (southern illinois)
..........from two different ones