Recent content by robertwest

We used "drop-faced" coping that hides that mortar gap and gives a clean appearance w/o the need for tile to hide it.

Just wanted to revisit with a winter picture...

I know this board goes back and forth about that, but the pipes have 1/2 inch foam wrapped around them between the pipe and concrete. The PB wouldn't do it unless they were foam-wrapped. I never said I was okay with the drama, tear-out, or added expense to us. Leisure Pools USA can make the...

Rich, The braces were removed the next day, so there's no wood buried in there anywhere. As for lateral braces, I can see how you would think that - it makes sense. But what happened when they put them in was it created a pressure toward the water side and it held really well. If you read my...

Day 5 was to be a partial day to fill the area above the flowable fill (removing the wood braces), set the concrete collar, pour the equipment pad, and wrap up. The only screw up today was the concrete collar. We asked them to slope it AWAY from the pool and they managed to do that on three...

Day 4 report (Thursday): Thursday's objective was to get backfill and water in. Plumbing was installed (incorrectly again), fixed, and was pressure tested all day. We did flowable fill in under the bench area and the larger #57 rock created a very solid fill. I will say that I ended up taking...