Recent content by jml84

I do feel for the excavator even though it was his mistake because he is on the hook for demo, cost of plumbers coming back out, cost of rebar/gunite. The pool builder is not the one eating it so I can see why they were agreeable to redoing it all.

This was where they made the mistake. They put the long side forms down and made sure they were equal distance between each other, but they never checked the edge of the form back to the house one last time. The left form was pushed 10 inches too far down at this point and they just continued...

So they came back and did a full re-measurement and re-string to show what it should have been if squared to the house. Red circles in the pics below are the correct location for outer corners. So... yeah, off by a lot. They agreed that there is no point in trying to salvage the pool at this...

The PM is supposed to be coming with one of the more experienced excavators to discuss solutions again tomorrow.

It's the side opposite the spa that will come out 10 inches. The spa side will only move 1-4 inches.

Update after meeting with the PM and construction manager. They confirmed what I was seeing and said the initial staking was done correctly but the framing team somehow moved it. They said they would be able to correct it by chipping the front wall away and re-shooting it straight with no loss...

Yeah, that's the thought I had...reshoot the front edge to be straight with the house and leave the rest, but I agree that sounds risky and hacky. It's sounding like I'm just going to have to go the route of seeing what they'll do discount-wise to make me happy, or less unhappy. Splitting the...

This is the diagram. Pool was to be centered with covered deck and of course in line with the house.

Not sure how many degrees, just that one side is 10 inches closer to the house than the other side.