Catching up on behalf of my sometimes tech challenged wife.
Here's a copy/paste from 12/20:
Still making reasonably good progress with the pool build. Coping dude came out yesterday and started the job. It's sorta cool watching him work... he goes through and pre-cuts all the coping and then blends the cut pieces in with full pieces as he works around the pool. All the coping is set in cement and then grouted in with cement so they're unlikely to pop off down the road.
As part of the process, it's inevitable that some of the pavers are a little "tighter" to their neighbor than others. In an effort to get even grout lines between the pieces, he goes back over the entire coping with an angle grinder/diamond blade and opens up the gaps by hand. I thought his approach to working in the water was awfully smart and easier than dragging around waders or rubber boots. :lol:
The guys doing the pavers were absolutely killing it. A crew of ~6-7 dudes descended on the area like a well-oiled machine. They knocked out almost all of the deck the first day they were on site.
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Now some additional time lapse video links and descriptions along with the status as of the middle of last week:
Next time-lapse is after the shell is done and really just the plumbing and initial water line tile:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pQMT6_h3Bw
Some more updates...
Part 3 of the time lapse is more tile work, putting in the forms for the screen footer, and then pouring the footer. Unfortunately the camera fogged up during the footer pour so the video goes crappy for a little bit. Stuff to watch for is the wood that's left in the footer concrete over by the spa. The dude messed up and didn't come back to get it out before the concrete set up. The result was concrete encased pressboard/mdf... which got rained on... and then expanded... and then cracked the footer. He got the joy of tearing out the entire corner of the footer over there and repouring it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EpPMey3uzY&t=262s
Part 4 of the time lapse is primarily coping and pavers. If you look closely around 2:00, you can see the termite guy come out and spray the surface before they put the rest of the pavers down. In the background during the same section of the video is the dude trying to dig the wood out of the concrete over by the spa... later in the video he starts the demo work of taking that entire section out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig3-UNYcF9o
Them taking off the corner... there was a crack that had propagated from the swollen wood and wrapped all the way down the footer. The sub tried to "promise" it'll never move... I wanted it torn out and our pool builder agreed 100%. I don't know how much it cost the guy to repour it but I'm sure it wasn't super cheap. At least he also spent probably 4 extra days onsite fixing his mistake.
The crack at the far top of the picture was a secondary one that formed after the wood had gotten rained on a couple more times. It was also the point where the entire side of the footer cracked after they started beating on it.
Continuing to make little rocks out of big rocks.
Earlier today as they were reforming the section and getting ready for concrete.
One nice thing was that it gave the kids (and us) a chance to put our hand prints into it. Of course it's going to get more concrete and then pavers on top of it but it was fun for them to know that they got to make their mark on the pool.
And finally, here's the overall project as of today. Looking like we should have the last part of the pavers and coping done Friday and then it'll be screening and the finish next week.
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And that brings us to current... the remaining pavers and coping were installed last Friday and then Monday. Screen supplies were dropped off today with the expectation that the install will begin tomorrow and take 2-3 days. Next up will be the finish late this week or beginning of next week. The finish should be 1 day of prep, 1 day of application, and then 1 day for the acid wash. The plan will be to fill it shortly thereafter.
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