Matt - I'm glad you posted a more positive (and probably more realistic) estimate of what is involved. It just seems like nothing could go right with ours. For example......we started digging down for one of our patio blocks and ran into a HUGE tree root. That was a big project in and of itself just to get that out of there so we could resume setting that block. Just different things like that that always seemed to be popping up. Have we ever seen a picture of your pool? I don't think I have, so if you have one available, I'd love to see it!