After you get a few more interviews and ideas from other builders, it will give you a better feel if this design proposal fits. It's a great sign that you feel good about this builder. We actually chose our builder first because he had a great local (and online) reputation and didn't even interview anyone else. I'm sure he's more expensive too, but we wanted a quality product that worked not a cheap pool with problems. We knew the features and design we wanted and worked with the builder to come up with the final plan and costs, tweaking a few ideas that were not able to work on our lot or too costly. On a side note, he left the decking pricing out of the pool contract to be determined later - just gave us a price per sq foot idea and of course I chose a more expensive material - and it was definitely a very expensive component. So you need to budget for decking! Point is a great builder can build you anything and tweak their design and proposal. From their perspective they just don't have time to fine tune every proposal until they know you are committed to using their services. HTH

We put in a pool in Weatherford this summer and I can relate to your concerns. We used a high end pool builder because we wanted a quality product. We are very pleased with our pool builder. Yes, the price is high, but seems in line for quality build. I would say that if you think the pool is too small now, go bigger, and you will be happy. We were worried that our 28 by 39 ft. pool would be too large for our 1/2 acre yard, but it is perfect!