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Originally the pool builder had told us they were going to put the fiberglass and the deck concrete into the hole. Sounded like it was done that way quite commonly. The excavator said "no" the day of excavation. He didn't feel that was the way to go with the new pool going in a few feet away...

Thanks Texas Splash!! :coffee:

Our fiberglass pool was a lot older, but, even back at 15, it needed a serious facelift. We knew the old pool would be an issue if we ever needed/wanted to sell. An older pool in need of repair will always scare a portion of potential buyers away. "You will not recover the cost of installing a...

I'm glad you had it fixed, it may seem like a small thing, but its really not a small difference at all.

Only one pool builder survived answering all of the initial questions we asked, it was pretty bad.

There's always some sort of setback. I'm glad you and yours are safe.

We did water the gunite right away (felt a little unnecessary) - even though a friend's gunite had a lot of water in it for weeks, our PB brought out a pump and pumped ours down. We could have saved him the trip out here, we had an old pump from a previous septic system. The last time we had...

12 hours after our gunite was in we received 13 inches of rain in a 5 hour period. At the time they told us they just needed 5 hours before heavy rain. They covered the gunite as it was sprinkling while they were finishing up.

It looks really good! I love the cabo shelf! What color is your plaster?

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I am anxious to see plaster pictures!

Your grandson is going to love it! Glad they found the skimmer leak - and repaired the new damage - its hard to restore anything without getting some dings along the way.

I think you are doing a great addition to your pool. What will be the surface dimensions of the cabo shelf? We gave a shelf a lot of thought and ended up doing a bit of a "cabo step". It has turned out to be our 3 yr old grandson's favorite play spot in the pool. 16.5" of water, he finds all...