Planning to construct a swimming pool needs sufficient time to cover all aspects of your idea to build one. It should not be done on plain wishful thinking without much research and studies as to its design, budget, time frame to construct, mode of construction, the materials specifications and contract management of the project. Each of these stages need sufficient time to evaluate, study, compute its cost implications or effects and your corresponding decisions. Following these activities would reduce if not eliminate possible problems that would certainly cropped up if proper steps are not taken at the planning stage.

Before you start choosing the type or design of your proposed swimming pool, it is important that you study carefully the topography and area of your vacant lot where the supposed pool would be constructed. Draft first a site development plan where the entire property is taken into consideration and all the structures both existing and proposed are indicated. This site development plan would serve as your guide in the current and future development of your property if it involves a larger area that other projects could be added later.

After finishing your working drawing for the site development blueprint, you can now figure out where your proposed swimming pool should be constructed. The specific measurement of the pool could be identified and from there, a design or type of pool can be fitted and finalized.

The materials specification to be used to construct the pool could now be identified and estimated. After a take off on the material requirement is done, a canvassing of their cost is in proper order. To complete your estimate, the labor cost and overhead and contractor’s profit could now be estimated for final summation of the total cost for the project.
If you have finished the estimates, it is time to finalize your cost to finish the project with summaries and detailed cost estimates of all the construction activities for the project. Likewise, prepare the technical specifications for your propose pool to serve as your reference when you draw the contract if it would be contracted. After knowing the total cost for the project, a decision must be arrived at whether you will have it contracted or constructed by management if you are qualified to handle its supervision. In case you will award it to pool contractors, you have to prepare yourself with the intricacies of dealing with contractors.

Secure quotations from not less than five contractors from a list of applicants whom you will personally conduct background check on the integrity and technical qualifications of the contractors. The bidding procedure must be transparent and well prepared wherein your interest should be duly protected being the owner. The plans must be in details and complete to avoid change orders or additional works that could break your bank without knowing it at the start that would cause you sleepless nights later. You must study carefully your contract provisions on this specific additional or change order works as these are the common causes of unfinished projects because of budget constraints which were not foreseen before the start of construction or even at the planning stage.

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