Recent content by smartypants1000

It's been a couple of weeks. We are still waiting on one item from PB - we requested water be stubbed out to our decking area for a pergola / misting fan at some point in the future (once our savings starts to grow again!) That being said, we've been swimming for a couple of weeks now. We were...

Been filling for almost 24 hours now. Might finish today!

More progress to report. KoolCote was applied this week to the decking. More exciting than that was the plaster that occurred yesterday! It's actually looking like a useable pool at this point! As I type this, there is a team working on acid washing (I think) the plaster that was installed...

We requested (and got) permission from our HoA to use the access road. When they came to dig, the backhoe and dump truck pulled right into our yard and started at about 730am. As one dump truck would will with dirt another would pull right up into the yard. The jackhammer lay forgotten in a...

A couple more weeks have gone by and we've had some progress. It feels as though one "big" thing happens every week. Just like building our house, the closer you get to completion the longer it seems to take. In any case, things have been going reasonably well. We had a slight hiccup at one...

The colors look fantastic. If your pool is a salt pool, my basic understanding is that flagstone might not be a good material to choose! I wish I had a bit of extra money to put the tiling on the steps into the pool - looks great!

Thanks for the instructions on how to post photos. Looks like I got it working hosting them through Flickr. Slow response is due to real life getting in the way! We went browsing today for pool furniture. My wife and I like iron/aluminum but the salesperson indicated that these might not be...

Haven't posted for a bit! I think we had the fastest dig in Austin that I've ever heard of. We have an access road behind our house due to the fact that there's a retaining pond behind our home. When submitting my request for HOA approval I also requested use of the access road, which we...

My wife and I are on vacation this week and have been doing quite a bit of swimming. The local pool here has a 6' deep end and my wife is telling me (already) that we need to change our design so that the deep end of our pool is a maximum of 5'6" so that she can touch bottom in the deep end. We...

Ok - all of the negotiating advice was much appreciated. We signed a contract with Anthony & Sylvan last week. A&S was one of five pool builders we worked with and we were happy with their design and overall cost. Dave was our salesperson, was willing to work with us and tweaked our design...

Hi - My wife and I have decided to build a pool. At this point we have had five companies out for design meetings and I have proposals from four of them. We didn't give any of the companies a budget but we did give them all the same parameters in terms of overall pool size, amount of decking...