Re: New Pool IG - Inland Empire, CA - Trenches!!
I am amazed at how much trenching the plumbers do! I expected a picked trench from the skimmer to the equipment and then a picked trench from the equipment to the hookups, but nope, they've trenched all over the place! The yard certainly does look like a war zone at the moment, but, all is going well. We had some questions and problems that needed to be worked through, but we took care of them with the contractors... no contact from the PB about our questions since last Wednesday.
Also, the HOA hit us up with a hearing about the common grass being destroyed (which we were going to replace anyways, but now they've made it an issue). Gotta love HOA's... lets people with anger issues apply themselves upon their neighbors.
Anyways-
There's no dirt left in the yard hehe. Trenches are so wide... and oddly enough, even though I marked them, and we even showed them to the plumbers, the drains (two of them) ended up with a ton of dirt and rocks in them again. We'll mention it to the plumbers as they seem to be pretty nice guys. Benya was racing around in the trenches for a while.
Look! Equipment platforms! Though the plumber initially said he'd need 4.5' from the wall cut, we convinced him to work it down to rather close to the wall. It will be tight with the pipes, but he says he can make it work. Mostly it will be an issue of getting around the cement and the downspout drain from the roof...
All the shrubs are taking a break out of the ground (keeping them moist in their root balls with bags of dirt around them). The trench will extend all the way past the gate to the water/gas/electrical hookups etc.
As always, cheers!
Poor guys.
