So this happened

[Cena_sea]

Wow. I really like the pavers and the border! It makes a huge difference.

That's looking really good! I wish I had the budget for pavers when I did my deck. When we redo it in 17 years, I'll likely do pavers. Although I'm cheap, so it may just be concrete again.

--Jeff

Getting pricing was difficult on pavers (the manufacturers do not want to tell you directly) but I was able to find prices online and figure out what are the cheap pavers a manufacturer makes. We did both regular concrete and concrete pavers and found the pricing was much closer than I had thought so it's worth pricing out in the future.

 

[aftrshok99]

No it's been dry as a bone. Next week will be sloppy but on/off and not monsoons. Time will tell I guess.

Good thing you didn’t do pavers on the other side. That side of your pool is for your storm water detention basin.

 

[Newdude]

There's some spots needing more polymeric sand, which always happens, but I'll gladly tinker with that.

I need a trim / ledger board or whatevs you'd call it under the door and am still undecided on white PVC or a strip of grey Trex.



Ignore the nose art on the glass, they've had alot to watch this week. Even now, she don't even know what we're looking at, nor does she care, she is just gonna help. Bless her heart.

 

[Newdude]

The Yard :

 

[aftrshok99]

Turned out amazing, love it!!!

 

[bbillingsley1985]

Just stumbled across this thread and WOW! What an awesome build. That deck is beautiful. Everything looks wonderful.

 

[Newdude]

They used this stuff.




It's pretty grey until it gets wet.

 

[Newdude]

Diving board installed and tested to meet ANSI C.Ball.08.2022 standards.

 

[aftrshok99]

Dude, not gonna lie, I'm jealous!!!

I know you went through the same things that lots of us are going through now....The long wait

 

[Jaffles]

Well..........I don't want to put a kiss of death on it,.....but that seemed to go well.

I guess when you get the PB out of the equation it has a good chance.

 

[bertschb]

I like your deck pavers better than anything else I've ever seen. It's awesome!

 

[Newdude]

but that seemed to go well.

Rest assured it's sloppy.

The 2 window wells are considerably different size half moons, but im happier about tightly fit pieces. Even if the two don't match.

Raised edges everywhere, especially on the coping.

The coping has many chips in the uncut edges and needs some sort of caulk on the inside the pool edge.

The underside at the stairs looks horrible with a half inch gap across most of it and sand packed Into one edge but not the other.

But. I'm seeing the whole picture when looking at it and not focusing on any one spot for now.

 

[ajw22]

Picky, picky.

You Millennials are supposed to be chill and laid back.

 

[JamesW]

Diving board installed and tested to meet ANSI C.Ball.08.2022 standards.

That's the highest standard.

Good job!

 

[Newdude]

You Millennials are supposed to be chill and laid back

I'm Gen X. We sit back and watch the tennis match of insults between Millenials and Boomers.

 

[Decoy205]

I'm Gen X. We sit back and watch the tennis match of insults between Millenials and Boomers.

Me too and so true! Hahaha

 

[Newdude]

Me too and so true! Hahaha

They both think we like them better and they are both wrong.

 

[Newdude]

The Patio guy came back today to sculpt the fill dirt. Way too many grass clippings and yard debris was blowing in the pool with it fairly flat. So I had him cut sharper angles that I will mulch to try and trap some of the blowing stuffs. It will also help with big storm drainage because the runoff from the patio won't have to travel so far sideways before catching the slope to the backyard. I will keep playing with the angles until it looks right compared to the picture in my head.



I still can't get over the original slope. It looked so level with a fence, semi inground pool and all kinds of overgrown bushes.

 

[proavia]

I will keep playing with the angles until it looks right compared to the picture in my head.

Oh boy, you just added another year or so to the completion of the project.

 

[kimkats]

Now that is a slope!!! How will you keep the mulch there? All I can see is a good rain washing it down into the yard.