My husband and I are putting in an ingrown ground pool in, in south Florida. We researched and researched and really love the guy we ended up going with . All has been going great until they started the rebar process . We noticed the top rim of the rebar was awfully high and our minds, the project manager stopped work and called the head guy to confirm they both agreed that it probably should have been 6 inches lower. After looking at the plans and the level of the house (note: we have a gentle slope towards the back of the fence ) they determined that they can make the ground flush with the pool with backfill . They said that the level of the top was at level with our back porch and was on the plans. They assured us that's how it should be, it would look great once it's all graded out and that we already signed off on it. ( we never had a discussion on the height of the pool except that we wanted it flush with the ground. ) Looking back we probably should've had them lower it and dig out more but they were charging us a huge amount of money to bring the backhoe back in. At that point we couldn't see spending even more money on it and going over budget when they were reassuring us that everything would be fine , that this is normal.

Designwise, we had originally wanted the grass to be level with the top of the coping. We wanted to live in it a while before we decided where we would put decking etc. Having said that could you take a look at these pictures and tell me how on earth are they going to make this level without it looking very built up on the back and the side edges? I just can't envision how they're going to do this without it looking like a ramp going up into the pool which would look horrible. Note: The top rim of the hot tub where we are supposed to sit to pivot into the spa is at my chest level!

Here is along our back fence: we have more space to work with but it's still a problem area.

Any design ideas that could make this look OK?