Sheree! You REALLY need to go buy a Lotto Ticket with all of the things going your way this week! WOW!
Kim:cat:
Makes sense. You have to factor in the grading that will be done when the rebar guys do their work as well as the fact that the bond beam of the pool is higher than the edge of the soil, I think by as much as 6".
They will put Rebar on the ground and raise it three inches. Then when they pour the gunite it will be three inches above the Rebar. And the plaster on top of the gunite will be 1/2 to an inch thick. Although that is about seven inches I would estimate that the bottom of the pool will be nine inches above where it is now. The water will come up to about half way up the six inch tile which is right in the middle of the skimmer (so you can use the skimmer as an estimate of where the water level will be).
You did me proud! Good job measuring and asking about it! Your next "job" will be to measure again when the steel is put in. Ask you PB how think the gunite will be and go from there.
Kim:cat:
They didn't know what they were doing when they built my pool. After the dig I told them not to put the Rebar in because I thought the depth was wrong. The salesman came over to my house when I wasn't there and called me and assured me he measured and it was right. The next day they did the Rebar and while doing it I spoke with the workers and they agreed they were more than seven inches off. It might have been a foot in an area ( I don't recall).
They kept the rebar and dug under it to fix the problem. And then pushed the Rebar down. If I had accepted their assurances we would have had a big problem.
Don't accept their assurance- make them prove to you that it is right while using your take measure. I took string and put it across the pool in various locations to help me with the measurements