Its been one thing after the other for me, my pool was shotcrete last friday and the crew had a lot of issues. This pool is a geometrical style and has about 12' x 28' with an infinity spa, etc, etc.. I got quoted 28 yards to complete this job and they divided 3 trucks with 10 yards on 1st, 2nd and 8 on third. The problem started with the second truck that had 10 yards of concrete, it arrived at my house 1 hour after leaving the plant... Two pipes of the pump broke at different times and finally the pump broke down. The crew had to get another pump and that took about 45-60 minutes. They told me that the company had to put a retarding additive to the mix (still about 6-7 yards left on the truck) to be able to conserve the concrete while the second pump arrives. So the second pump arrives and they start pumping this concrete, I was told by the crew building my pool that the concrete was very warm but no one said that it was bad. The second pump, most of the lines got blocked after pumping 2-3 yards, the concrete was not suitable for pumping anymore. So the second truck left with about 5 yards of bad concrete and the pumping crew started to unclog the lines. The 3rd truck with 8 yards came about 4 hours after the second arrived and everything on the pool was pretty much dried before they started pumping again. This is what I ended up with:
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