New Pool -- Southlake, TX (near Dallas)
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Help: Quick Question: Gunite without rebar for a step??
I have a question for the experts here in this forum. Is it OK for your PB to form and shape a small step in the pool using gunite but with NO rebar? In other words, when I looked at the steelwork I saw a sun bench with one step shaped out of steel. Now that gunite has gone in I see two steps. I checked the plans and the plans show two steps. So unless somebody did some really fast last minute steel bending and tying this morning while the gunite was starting to spray, I can only presume that the second step (bottom) is formed out of gunite but with no steel.
Is this common and OK?
I have a question for the experts here in this forum. Is it OK for your PB to form and shape a small step in the pool using gunite but with NO rebar? In other words, when I looked at the steelwork I saw a sun bench with one step shaped out of steel. Now that gunite has gone in I see two steps. I checked the plans and the plans show two steps. So unless somebody did some really fast last minute steel bending and tying this morning while the gunite was starting to spray, I can only presume that the second step (bottom) is formed out of gunite but with no steel.
Is this common and OK?
Re: Help: Quick Question: Gunite without rebar for a step?
they did that on mine...
FirstPoolLastPool said:
they did that on mine...
skylar18
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Thank you skylar18 and NDallasModPool for quick replies. You helped me not panic as the gunite was going in today, just did not have time to say thanks till now. THANKS!
Hats off to the Claffey crew. Excellent progress being made on your project and quality of work is evident too.
Some interior shots before I watered again......PB came by last night and said we needed to water regularly since we hit 100 degrees yesterday on gunite day and we expect 102 degrees today!!
Got the OK to step inside once or twice so took these pics. One shows the sun bench and steps off the shallow end.
The other one shows on the right side the swim out ledge with step in the deep end
Got the OK to step inside once or twice so took these pics. One shows the sun bench and steps off the shallow end.
The other one shows on the right side the swim out ledge with step in the deep end
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Man that will be one sweet pool. At the rate they are moving, I find the est completion date a bit puzzling. In talking with two builders now, it seems like all them want to give themselves a 90 window. But, I guess you have a lot more to go with walls, decking and such. You have quite a bit more than we are wanting overall in terms of all that. Love it though, and I bet you are getting anxious now.
Watered the gunite 3x a day for the last 3 days. Temps have come down from 100+ to high 80's for next couple days and humidity is ridiculously low for this area. Very comfortable, not sure if it means we'll have to keep watering.
Supposedly stone work starts tomorrow! Short week coming up with the holiday on Thursday, I hope we see some more good progress this week.
Supposedly stone work starts tomorrow! Short week coming up with the holiday on Thursday, I hope we see some more good progress this week.
Thank You! to all the kind posters who say they like the pool. Here are some photos after the conclusion of day 12. Today was a Monday and the stone and tile people showed up and got a lot done. These pictures were taken in low light conditions near dusk. I'll try to get some better ones tomorrow
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One more image of the stone wall. It may not be obvious from the pictures I have posted so far but our back yard has a bit of a slope so the pool has a retaining wall 18" high all around the low side. Most of what got done today was setting that stone which is visible here
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jamgolf said:
Yes, good eye! Pool coping is going to be Oklahaoma Flagstone "brown tones". The other stone used extensively to form the wall is a carved sandstone...really easy to shape in a natural style but flagstone will be on the top of the wall.
More work going on today and they are cutting and setting the flagstone tops of the wall so I'll post more pictures tonight.
FYI, this link http://stoneyardbuilding.com/products.html was helpful to me in visualizing the various types of stone....DISCLAIMER: the company that link takes you to is not involved in the build of my pool and I have no knowledge of their operations good or bad.
Stone work continues today and here is a photo in better light conditions for the retaining wall and Oklahoma flagstone top. Oklahoma flagstone is very popular here in North Texas and very reasonable in cost since quarries are close.
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With all the dust from stone cutting and construction it is quite frustrating to try to and see what the colors are looking like as the various elements come together but here is what we can see so far. I doubt the tile will show that much pink in "real life" when blue granite pebblesheen is in place and with water in the pool.
