Recent content by firstpoolforme

Ok. I have to say that after we sealed the coping a few weeks ago, the travertine is not as slippery as it was before. We are not using a towel from where the kids were jumping. We still ask the kids not to run around the pool, but we would do that even with a stone coping. You never know.

maxepr1 - The coping is slightly slippery when wet. We actually had a towel from where the kids were jumping into the pool just in case. Now, we have just sealed the travertine and it seems better. So I'll let you know if that helps or not. shakenbake, 257WbyMag - Thanks for your comments...

I owe this site my "after construction" pool pictures... We have been enjoying the pool so much that I completely forgot!... :cheers: Here they are...

Thanks terriolsen, that's exactly how I feel.

Flippy, As far as I understand the deck color will slightly change once they apply the sealer. Regarding the travertine sealant. The builder is saying that they don't do that as part of the contract, which I am surprised since everywhere in Mastertile it's mentioned that travertine needs to...

:rant: EXTREMELY frustrated with pool builder right now. They did the stamped concrete on Thursday, unfortunately I wasn’t here, and came home at night to find a SLOPPY job. The design we chose was to complement the straight lines of the pool design. It turned out the contractor didn’t...

It is actually the Tile #3. I will post more pictures when it is completely done, so you can see the iridescent on them. I really like how it looks like with the sun...

One more picture... Tomorrow we have the deck, Tuesday the tile crew should finish with the tile, soon after the pebblesheen... and... then all we'll need is LANDSCAPING!.. don't like the look of the fence right behind the raised wall at all... So I need to cover it somehow. And then...