Should I go it alone?

[gwrace1]

It's hard work and very time consuming. Because of my limited free time we decided to have the yard leveled and pool installed by a contractor. We had an Artesian Echo Canyon Ultra 2 33' Round pool installed. That was in mid March of this year. It took them 3 days to complete and there were 3 of them working. To save money I did the trenching, ran the conduit/electrical, plumbing and landscaping. It was about 150' of electrical from the house to the pool into a storage shed where I installed a sub-panel, timer, Aquarite, pump and filter. I also hard plumbed all PVC piping underground from the pool to the storage shed and ran two return lines.
Last week we installed a deck and fence kit around the pool. We plan to finish up the last of the landscaping this week.

After a month's worth of work the first swim for the kids was this week.

The moral to this story is the pool is just the beginning. Be prepared for all the follow-up work that is required.