Recent content by blacksi

That's awesome! I want to come over.

Thanks, it came out better than I expected. Yeah they're for the umbrellas. Not sure on the joints they just went off the corners of the steps then randomly space out around. One of these days I'll get out to get some finished pics.

Cool Deck is on.

Yeah, I was concerned about the backfill, I asked about gravel. The PB claims to never have any problems using dirt, they brought a compacting thing out but it broke down so they reverted to driving over it with the bobcat to compact it as they filled it. I was going around before they...

I just realized I forgot to remove the skimmer from my concrete calculation. :)

One thing we have had on our side is weather. We have not had enough rain to make even a puddle in the last month. This is 12 truck loads of dirt later.

Got more pics of the build. But here's what I did today on my day off. I double checked the square footage of the decking using a laser to trace it out since I knew there was no way they were going to be accurate with tape measures. I use 3d lasers for work. They calculated 950 when it was...

He hasn't said anything about it yet. The back towards the woods is the only area that is close. Now that you mention it he is probably going to do everything he can to get out of it because it wasn't in his original quote so therefore iti would come out of his pocket. Tomorrow they will back...

Well they said they like pics and my wife isn't missing a beat. We are going to need a lot of dirt.

Congrats man, at least your guys are working this weekend. I bet you can wait to hear that pump start moving that nastyness.

Thanks, Wow 2 months! sorry to hear that, hopefully it works out in the end. Heading over to find your build post.

We have a fire pit and somehow one step down got mis interpellated. When I got home and looked I was pretty sure they had gone too deep and sure enough it was. He thought I meant a step inbetween the deck and the fire pit. Overview of before. The blue X means you're on your way out...

If it goes thru walls, I would Imagine it would work.

Thanks for the link, I am just getting started getting the pool built and this will def come in handy.

What a tease. Lets see some finished pics. It's looking great.