Recent content by russaggie

Yes, the rock is just unbelievable for us in this area. About two days of excavation was just breaking up rock and hauling it out. It's also one of the reasons I went with this PB. He included ALL excavation in the price. The other we had narrowed our choices down to said they "may" have to come...

The links are definitely "worth" it. They are full of great information plus it's kinda like an achievement badge for those of us building. We know we have hit a good spot in our progress.

I think this is actually a good thing. The flow rate for your auto-fill is probably a LOT slower than that from the regular water hose.

Thank you Kim, I have been waiting to get my own copy. Even though I must admit I have cheated and looked at other people's copies. As for questions, I am sure they will start when it's time to start filling the pool up. I will be doing the test of my tap water in the next few days to see what I...

Guess what day it is.... Crew showed up around 6:45 and got started as soon as it was daylight.

I am really interested in seeing your cauldron build. I'm so close to ordering one, but want to see your thoughts once you have it all out together.

We are just a couple of days away from gunite and have an issue with the spillways from our spa. We are supposed to have two 18" spillways. After the steel guys were done we didn't like the location of the spillways as one was going to spill onto our tanning ledge. We asked the PB to have both...

So plumbing was finished today. We did make a couple of changes. Instead of doing one large light we are going to do three smaller lights throughout the pool. Hopefully this will give us a nice even light distribution throughout the pool instead of one bright spot with darker edges all the way...