New Pool in Chandler, AZ

[NoFear95]

Our pool builder stated we could do the travertine pavers directly over our concrete.

An I would love to have a ice maker out by the pool..but 115-120 degrees...it will never happen lol.

 

[bacevedo]

Exactly, elwood58, on the fridge. In AZ, when it's 110+ outside, the fridge is barely able to keep things slightly cool. I don't think there is anything worse then going for a cold beverage only to find it slightly cool!

Plus, the electricity to run a fridge in the summer, outdoors, in the direct sun would not make it worth it. We'll just have a nice big ice tub with drinks in it when entertaining.

The pool and spa are about 16,150 gallons total.

We could have done pavers on the patio, but they still wanted to charge $8.75 a sq foot. Not sure why. Plus, it would have raised the patio by almost 1.5" unless you break out the concrete and start fresh. The tile raised it by .5" and was $5.88 a sq ft. We also made the decision on the travertine tile at the last second, literally the day they were doing the pavers for the decking. By then, all of the other elevations had been set to be 1" above the patio. If we would have changed to pavers on the patio it would have actually been higher than the decking height which wouldn't have worked. In the end it turned out great.

 

[dirtfrmr]

I must be close to you , North Barrington subdivision, Stuff look great!

 

[NoFear95]

I ended up making the beam of my pool level with my concrete patio so when we laid the pavers it would be level. How many sqft of pavers did you have? Looking at about 900 sqft on mine. My landscaper said 7sqft and my pool guy was at 8.50...

 

[bacevedo]

We had about 742 sq ft of pavers. At least that's what's in our contract. I think it was actually closer to 800 sq ft for the pavers. The coping was an additional 138 linear feet. For the tile we had 382 sq ft. So total for travertine coverage was 1320 sq ft.

Your bond beam is exactly level with your patio? They weren't concerned about sloping the decking down from the pool towards your patio so water would drain away from the pool?

If you look at some of my latest pictures, you can see a deck drain where the pavers meet the existing patio. They required this for any pavers that met an existing structure. The pavers slope down towards that drain and then my patio slopes down from the house towards that drain. I would suspect your patio also has a slope away from the house. Hopefully you won't have any problems with water running from the patio into the pool.

 

[bacevedo]

We passed our final inpsection today! Should be putting on the Pebble Plus finish some time this week.

They also hooked up the grill to the gas line and the painters will be by tomorrow morning to finish painting everything. Progress!

The only bad thing is that my gas company (Southwest Gas) can't come out for 2 weeks to put a new meter on the house and hook up the new gas line for the spa and grill. No grilling for Memorial Day.

 

[Heater]

Take the good with the bad man! Your Setup looks great

 

[duraleigh]

No grilling for Memorial Day

Duraleigh (the Dinosaur) says, "Charcoal!"

 

[linen]

No grilling for Memorial Day

Duraleigh (the Dinosaur) says, "Charcoal!"

X2, if your going to grill it (or smoke it), then it is better doing over hardwood charcoal

 

[NoFear95]

Why would you need a new meter?

 

[bacevedo]

I am increasing the load on the gas line to accommodate an additional 466,000 BTU. I didn't know that they put new meters on either, but my pool builder recently told me I had to contact Southwest Gas myself to have a bigger meter put on once the final inspection was done. It turns out that they would have contacted me as soon as the final gas line inspection was sent to them.

I assume that when you add more load, the meter needs to increase in size to allow more gas to flow. That way if I am trying to use all my gas appliances at once I have enough flow.

Bryan

 

[NoFear95]

Something tells me the larger meter has a larger base monthly price....

 

[bacevedo]

Might be. They told me it wouldn't cost me anything to have it put on, so we'll see what they do with it on my monthly bill. I would think they get more from me with increased usage so they shouldn't need to charge me for a bigger meter.

 

[bacevedo]

We had a pleasant surprise this morning at 6:30 am. The PebbleTech guys were here to finish the pool!

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[Heater]

Looks like they are on a roll!

 

[bacevedo]

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[bacevedo]

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[bacevedo]

And their big slurry box that is now ready to overflow!
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The painters are here now. Tomorrow is acid wash and then the fill! It all came together so quickly!

 

[Shane1]

Awesome! You should be swimming by this weekend! If I remember right you can fill as soon as the acid wash is done. Everything came out really good, congrats!

 

[bacevedo]

Acid wash is done and now we are filling!

They actually used a gas powered trimmer with a brush attached to it to scrub the floors. Pretty good idea!
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There was a huge difference once the top layer was washed away.
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Just about done.
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