Sorry for the delay! Okay, so here is the complete (and long) story. I've been watching these same tile guys for a full 8 days of work (not consecutive) and I've learned a few things. Carlos and Omar are brothers. Carlos speaks better English and is clearly the more responsible one. Omar's English is not so good and he often seemed hungover (like arriving here at 11:00 only to put his head down on the playset for 20 minutes and not move). [emoji23] Carlos took less breaks and would get annoyed with the others (during tile/coping there was a 3rd guy) when their breaks were too long. Most breaks were about 45 minutes to an hour for each 30 minutes of work with lots of being on their phones. Omar seems less responsible but definitely pays more attention to detail and may have a bit more experience. Remember when we didn't like the way they finished the ends of our spa? It was Omar that fixed it. One day Carlos was out sick and the guys accomplished very little for being out here from about 11-5. Carlos came back the next morning (9:30 - earliest ever) and he was ticked! You could see it all over his face, he threw a tool down, took off his shirt and slammed it down... Lots of Spanish words. (My blinds were open so he probably didn't know I saw it all). Even my daughter was like "ooh, he looks mad!" That was the last day and the earliest they'd ever shown up. PB was upset at the slow progress and had told them to get it done so they had to finish it all that day. That was the hardest I'd ever seen them work and they were here until about 9:00 at night. Fast forward to Thursday. Carlos chooses to do the table in the pool and Omar is doing the fire pit. After we didn't like the sloppy center and I told him he was visibly annoyed and said he would call my PB. Well, my PB came out in the morning before the guys got here and took the center pieces out, agreeing that they needed to be redone. When the guys got here Carlos was frustrated and didn't want anything to do with the table so they had switched. Omar is more easygoing.
Okay, so PB had also told me that these guys would be installing my toe tiles before they finished. We have not had clean up yet but he told me that they'd clean up enough to install them. I showed the tiles and I'd need to lay them out. When Carlos heard I had a specific order for them to go in he was rolling his eyes right in front of me. I was feeling very apprehensive about them installing them since they're my samples and I have a very exact amount of glass tiles to use. I spoke with Mrs. PB and she said she would talk to PB about installing them closer to plaster and that her son even does them sometime so I thought the situation was resolved. I got a knock on the door from Carlos ready for my toe tiles and he'd just cleaned up quite a bit. I came back inside and called the PB explaining my apprehension and he said that it was fine to wait and to tell Carlos not to worry about it. So, I go out and tell him. He was visibly angry about it; I think because he'd just cleaned up in preparation. His clean up was not great though and did not help my apprehension. Would you want your tiles installed on a pool cleaned up like this?
Sigh. Oh well.
Oh, and remember that piece on the back wall that had to be replaced? Well, they replaced it.
Notice any problems? Yep! They used the grout from my waterline tile instead of the grout for my coping. Did he seriously not notice when he did it?
But all in all, the fire pit is coming out nice and the table is nicer now. It's still not perfect by any means but we like it enough to live with it. Introducing the Suz Fire Pit!
The plumber comes tomorrow to custom make the ring and then they'll finish the outside of it.
And the Nursini Table Top!
Kim, what were we naming after you again?
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needs to walk back to his truck! Nope not working on my stuff! YOUR pool, YOUR way!
He calls THAT cleaned up??? Nope! Not at all close