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The day his guys laid out the forms with us, one of the guys measured and came up with 875. The next day, after digging a bunch of hardpack all day, the other guy measured and got 1,024. WTF? When owner gave me that amount, I went out and re-measured along with the crew. We came up with 869...

Concrete deck is formed and bonded - inspection on Monday. But the concrete guy wants to come back out "beginning of next week" to verify the square footage. He doesn't trust his guys apparently. I'm good with verifying so we don't end up short (and I don't want to pay for a bunch of concrete...

Northern Baltimore County.

It was the bonding inspection that was missed. Putting aside the inspection we "failed", we will end up with three bonding inspections. The first was for the rebar in the concrete "curb" that rings the fiberglass shells. That confirmed rebar is tied to shell at anchor points and that copper...

So the fiberglass shell was set on December 13th. And here we are over 4 months later. There was a two month delay for a missed (not even failed, just not called in) inspection which required the coping, the concrete surround and the waterfall wall be torn out and redone. :eek: And now after...

Thanks for the information. Good to know what I might need if I decide to pursue it. As to your question...there is just one skimmer at the end of the pool. The round thing on the side is the cover for the sump pit. It's needed if they ever had to drain the pool to make sure no water sits...

We are having a new pool installed. Excuse the color, it's been cleaned since. But we are still waiting on concrete guy for the rest of the deck. :( The upper section is a tanning ledge (not a spa) with a return and bubbler. Each of those is on a Jandy automated valve. It has no separate...