We Googled a bunch of local pool companies and talked to some folks in the area who had previously put pools in. Anthony & Sylvan had built a pool in our neighborhood and we saw the construction process while it was happening, and it looked like there was always someone working. So, we met with several different pool companies, Anthony & Sylvan being one of them, and they were the most professional and seemed to have the best handle on the process.

Our project manager was Ray, and he was wonderful. He was always available. If he couldn't answer when I called, he would call me back within the hour. We didn't know much about pool construction, and he explained the entire process from start to finish. He was always there to give answers. He even came out when something was of concern to us, and he would be here and personally address the issue. As far as the scheduling team goes, Patty was our scheduler and I don't know how she keeps it all straight, but she knows everything about everyone at every time and she was on the ball the entire process. I've never met a woman more organized in my entire life. She was wonderful. If the crew was delayed for whatever reason, she would call me before I even realized they were late when they were supposed to be here.

We have a free form granite pool with Pebble Tec. We are on an incline in our backyard, so they had to do some creative design to stand a significant elevation change from the front end to the back end of the pool. They also ended up doing the pool decking around the deck with retaining wall and all sorts of stuff. I cannot say enough good things about their construction team here in Charlotte. They were the most on-point and organized contractor group of any sort we have ever worked with.

We have three small children and we love the ability to have vacations in our backyard. We don't need to go anywhere, everything is here. We can have fun there, but we can entertain. The pool is also beautiful to look at. It's right off of our master bedroom, so we can see it when we wake up in the morning. It has brought our backyard together. The whole thing is now with purpose, and we spend a lot more time outside than we did before. I feel like we have doubled our living space because we're now using a backyard that previously went mostly unused. And we're in the south, so we have beautiful weather for a long time every year.