Recent content by Gilrock

Wow I'm really sorry I know that's gotta make you sick in the stomach. That sure looks like a major structural crack to me because it goes all the way up the wall and caused tile seperation near the skimmer and seperation of the decking pavers. It sounds like the earthquake was the cause. I'm...

Quite a bit of work was done this week. All the electrical work was completed and the new light installed. They ran all the new plumbing for the new suction line and installed the autofill. They formed up the new deck area and the concrete truck is here right now about to pour the decking...

I'm guessing it's quite common based on my experience when I was 20 working for a pool company. They would mark the utilities and we still occasionally hit power lines and gas lines. It didn't really scare us that much....maybe cause I was 20. We were usually happy because as laborers it...

Yeah the job supervisor replied and told me they were planning on painting all that plumbing to make it look new. I didn't know they were going to do that. So luckily they've been pretty good to work with because I'm realizing not every detail of what we wanted was detailed in the contract...

They just installed the pump where the old one was sitting. I'm not even sure how he had enough pipe to do this change out. When we had pump issues before I think they just changed out the rear end section. I'm hoping it will be many years before I have to worry about this piping arrangement...

And more photos of the renovation... Side view of the planter. In the corner I wanted this area to have the planter closed off to the wall so they agreed to come back to change that later. Most of the border tiles were laid today. New pump is installed with some of the plumbing...

I have several photos showing some of the progress over the past month. Like most pool companies they tend to show up and do a bunch of work and then don't show up for several days but I haven't been sweating it since I knew I wouldn't be swimming in it this season anymore. Fence has been torn...