So now the project is pretty much FINISHED!!!!! The pool crew (AAA Pools here in New Orleans) did a really nice job. Their tile guy even reworked all of our broken flagstone around the pool, and re-floated the grout, making the decking look like new. With the heat coming on in south Louisiana, this couldn't have come soon enough.
This was the pool after I dug it out with the excavator:
This was just a sample of the trash that was in the bottom:
The pool crew drained the pool, chipped out all of the old tile, set the new tile, and replastered:
And finally, this is the once trashed pool restored:
Feel free to ask me any questions you have about our renovation of the pool!!
WOW! Awesome, thanks for letting us follow along and taking time to post pics. I think you should post a before and after pic in the same post just to get the full scope of the project.
One other thing to mention is that I cleared that entire property by myself over the course of several weekends, then did the fence(all 240 feet of it). The garbage bags of brush/pine needles/trash total was over 150. It had been abandoned for almost five years, and I have never seen so many wasp nests in my life!!! I would rake a few feet of the dried pine needles, then a cloud of wasps would emerge from the ground, where they had built a nest. Under the rim of the pool there was literally a wasp nest every 2 feet or so. If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't hesitate for a minute, especially seeing how how fun my kids are having in the pool. And it's small enough not to be a burden, and the cost of the upkeep looks to be pretty low as well.
great job. happy to see this as i am about to undertake a similar project of bringing a 50 year old pool back to life.
care to share total cost on this project? ballpark maybe?
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