I've been most impressed with Waterside Poolscapes out of the builders we've met with so far. Couldn't find a bad review on them and they came with a design and quote to the first meeting. I will say that it is best to know what design you want going in to the meetings with the builders. After the first few initial meetings with builders we determined exactly what we wanted and the next few meetings with builders were much more productive and they were able to give us detailed quotes at the first meeting. I put together a short Powerpoint with the scope of work (removal of trees/landscaping and existing flagstone, artificial turf green space, rerouting sewer line, tying gutter downspouts into drainage), specs of the pool (chlorine, variable speed pump, bubblers, spray jets, ozonator, UV, autofiller, smartphone controls, water color, travertine coping and decking), the pool design drawn out on our survey to show the layout, and pictures of the features, design, water color, etc. that we like. It definitely helped focus the meeting on specific issues and concerns we had.
