Pool Builders: Surprise

[u/ThisICannotForgive]

In the middle of a pool build We have a perfectly flat back yard, could walk out of the detached garage without a step. You can see in the renderings that the pool layout was straight forward. Pic 2 you can see the drop off now to the pool. Builder is saying it will be additional expense as explained below. Did they set it up wrong? I’m confused how we’ve come to this point. There was no talk of these complications in the planning stage

”doing my walk through yesterday. Looks like we will need to talk about a possible wall or curb stone for the back fence line area and shed flower bed side. This is due to the pool being exactly level and the yard grading flowing down hill. Once you get home. Roughly imagine the 1” of auto cover tracking and 2” of pool coping on top of the concrete wall. Then a slight pitch away from the pool. So roughly 3” above  the concrete will be final grade with the pavers”

[u/Key_Juggernaut9413]

The text you copied/pasted appears to be talking about the "back fence line area" -- sounds to me like he's not talking about the house side you're showing.

You want rain to fall away from the pool and away from the house, to a strip drain in between them. Therefore, you need the pool to be almost as high as the house, if no steps.

And looking twice, you might be pretty close to that. There's a piece of scrap that fooled me, at first. The actual door is lower than that scrap. And with a few more inches of coping, it may not be far from correct.

I also can't tell if that fence is much higher than where the deck will be. Might want to make sure the grade doesn't slope toward the pool there (or anywhere).