Just a small (but I guess big at the same time) update.
The Orenda tech decided it's not worth it for them to take over the startup and take on the liability since things weren't really that bad. The original onslaught of plaster dust has settled and at this point I just feel like I'm pushing around the same plaster dust every day. Don't really see new dust on the walls often. The builder's startup tech is hired for 14 days. He takes readings after brushing, instead of before, and his readings are consistently off from what I get. But that's okay. I'm going to try and talk him into vacuuming the bottom this week with a vinyl head brush so that we can see if we're still leaching plaster dust or not...but not a big deal to me if he doesn't.
There's a leak in the pool. Probably loosing about 2-3 inches of water daily. We're having divers in the pool this week to dye test and plumbers are coming out to test plumbing. Plumbing was under pressure up until the day before plaster was installed, so doubtful that's it. When the plaster company chipped out the wrong plaster, they damaged one of the light niches and it was replaced, so that's suspect. And after they got done installing the new plaster they had to hammer on the main drain some due to plaster build up, so that's equally suspect. We also have a autofill line going under our decking that heavy equipment drove over when decking was installed, so I guess that's suspect too.
While we continue to have problem after problem, the builder is trying hard to make it known this isn't typical for them and has been extremely responsive. They let our original project manager go, evidently he has several jobs in similar state of ours and has a reputation for never coming on site until there's a check $$ to be collected. They offered to pay for our water bill until the leak is fixed. I've sent them a punch list of every thing outstanding (including some nitpicky stuff) and they agreed to take care of it all with no push back. I guess they're just surprised that I'm not chewing into 'em on everything...amazing how patient one can be when you admit fault and commit to making it right.
My only concern right now that I don't know what I should do about - we have some plaster roughness, especially in areas that were saturated with water in the above video. The tanning ledge is the worse that I can see so far, and it's super obvious at night since there's a light that hits across it. Looks bad. I'm pretty sure that if I told my builder I wanted them to re-polish the tanning ledge in a few months they'd do it...but I don't know if that's reasonable for me to request or more trouble then it's worth. Here's a pretty good example photo of what a lot of the ledge looks like. There are a few larger trowel marks or polish "burn", but this is what's most common.
The Orenda tech decided it's not worth it for them to take over the startup and take on the liability since things weren't really that bad. The original onslaught of plaster dust has settled and at this point I just feel like I'm pushing around the same plaster dust every day. Don't really see new dust on the walls often. The builder's startup tech is hired for 14 days. He takes readings after brushing, instead of before, and his readings are consistently off from what I get. But that's okay. I'm going to try and talk him into vacuuming the bottom this week with a vinyl head brush so that we can see if we're still leaching plaster dust or not...but not a big deal to me if he doesn't.
There's a leak in the pool. Probably loosing about 2-3 inches of water daily. We're having divers in the pool this week to dye test and plumbers are coming out to test plumbing. Plumbing was under pressure up until the day before plaster was installed, so doubtful that's it. When the plaster company chipped out the wrong plaster, they damaged one of the light niches and it was replaced, so that's suspect. And after they got done installing the new plaster they had to hammer on the main drain some due to plaster build up, so that's equally suspect. We also have a autofill line going under our decking that heavy equipment drove over when decking was installed, so I guess that's suspect too.
While we continue to have problem after problem, the builder is trying hard to make it known this isn't typical for them and has been extremely responsive. They let our original project manager go, evidently he has several jobs in similar state of ours and has a reputation for never coming on site until there's a check $$ to be collected. They offered to pay for our water bill until the leak is fixed. I've sent them a punch list of every thing outstanding (including some nitpicky stuff) and they agreed to take care of it all with no push back. I guess they're just surprised that I'm not chewing into 'em on everything...amazing how patient one can be when you admit fault and commit to making it right.
My only concern right now that I don't know what I should do about - we have some plaster roughness, especially in areas that were saturated with water in the above video. The tanning ledge is the worse that I can see so far, and it's super obvious at night since there's a light that hits across it. Looks bad. I'm pretty sure that if I told my builder I wanted them to re-polish the tanning ledge in a few months they'd do it...but I don't know if that's reasonable for me to request or more trouble then it's worth. Here's a pretty good example photo of what a lot of the ledge looks like. There are a few larger trowel marks or polish "burn", but this is what's most common.
