Re: New Pool Build in Central Texas because of Big Green Egg
Friday they started framing my deck. Worked all day and said they would be back Monday. Team was a bunch of great guys that were some of the hardest workers I have ever seen.
Didn't expect anybody over the weekend which was good, it was graduation weekend and we had enough going on. Sunday morning my wife exclaims, they are working out there today. I looked out there confused because really nothing more can be done until the deck is complete. We see three guys from the pool company milling about in the back yard looking at our stone that hadn't been used yet. We still need it for the top of the fire pit, our outdoor kitchen, stone chair around the fire pit, and our retaining wall around the back of the pool.
Remember, we went to the stone yard in February to pick out all of our pallets of stone so everything would match perfectly.
Mystified, we watched in anticipation on what they were going to work on. I knew they weren't the deck crew and didn't see the masons with them either. They were the guys who seemed to do all the general work such as the landscaping, they helped on the dig, etc so I knew who they were. Well, lo and behold, they each picked up three stones and walked around to the front of the house. My wife and I scrambled to look out the front window to try to uncover this mystery. This was like 8:00 in the morning. We then had the pleasure of watching all three of them load the stone in their truck and climb in the cab to drive away!
I hurried out there and stopped them and asked them what was going on. All they could mutter was they were working at another site, ran out of materials and their boss told them to come to my house to get some stone! I actually couldn't stop laughing for 5 minutes......so much for the 2 hours we spent at the stone yard picking everything out.
On a more positive note, it took 5 dump trucks of fill that the guys had to manually move to my backyard but my deck is framed and ready to be poured on Friday. We are thrilled how it is coming out.