Greetings:
I know this forum is mostly posts from folks with work underway but I thought I might share our nearly year long pool building adventure.
Highlights of the timeline were:
10/25/20 - Signed the contract with pool builder
5/20/21 - Excavation begins
6/16/21 - Shotcrete
10/12/21 - Plaster
10/13/21 - filled
11/18/21 - final inspection passed
Here's the PB's overhead rendering of the design:
Overall 9'x23'
Swim area 9'x16'
SPA 6'x6'
Jandy equipment
Riverflow swim current
Coverpools motorized cover
The long delay between the contract signing and the start of excavation is not the PB's fault. Before we could start pool we first need to relocate our existing underground electrical feed. A process that I had started with SCE in July of 2020, but was not actually finished until 4/30/2020.
Not long after they start excavation they run into the layer of rock.
But they do get the digging completed in a few days time.
Next comes rebar and plumbing.
In this picture you can see the 12" plumbing for the Riverflow, the pump itself is in the foreground with the return line to end of the pool. There are also two 12" suction lines running along the sides of the pool to grates at the back of the swimming area.
Then shotcrete
The day after this picture was taken the forms were stripped and back-fill done. Which is good because now there was a 3 week delay before the Masons arrive and start installing the tile and coping.
And the also build the cinderblock retaining wall that will form the base the back and side walls of our equipment shed.
and install the decking (we went with concrete pavers a an economical choice).
In this same timeframe the pool cover folks arrive and install stainless steel supports for the pre-cast coping pieces that will hide the cover vault.
At this point the pace slowed considerably and it's not until mid August that the slab for the equipment shed is finally poured and we're ready to start that phase.
To be continued...
I know this forum is mostly posts from folks with work underway but I thought I might share our nearly year long pool building adventure.
Highlights of the timeline were:
10/25/20 - Signed the contract with pool builder
5/20/21 - Excavation begins
6/16/21 - Shotcrete
10/12/21 - Plaster
10/13/21 - filled
11/18/21 - final inspection passed
Here's the PB's overhead rendering of the design:
Overall 9'x23'
Swim area 9'x16'
SPA 6'x6'
Jandy equipment
Riverflow swim current
Coverpools motorized cover
The long delay between the contract signing and the start of excavation is not the PB's fault. Before we could start pool we first need to relocate our existing underground electrical feed. A process that I had started with SCE in July of 2020, but was not actually finished until 4/30/2020.
Not long after they start excavation they run into the layer of rock.
But they do get the digging completed in a few days time.
Next comes rebar and plumbing.
In this picture you can see the 12" plumbing for the Riverflow, the pump itself is in the foreground with the return line to end of the pool. There are also two 12" suction lines running along the sides of the pool to grates at the back of the swimming area.
Then shotcrete
The day after this picture was taken the forms were stripped and back-fill done. Which is good because now there was a 3 week delay before the Masons arrive and start installing the tile and coping.
And the also build the cinderblock retaining wall that will form the base the back and side walls of our equipment shed.
and install the decking (we went with concrete pavers a an economical choice).
In this same timeframe the pool cover folks arrive and install stainless steel supports for the pre-cast coping pieces that will hide the cover vault.
At this point the pace slowed considerably and it's not until mid August that the slab for the equipment shed is finally poured and we're ready to start that phase.
To be continued...
Well played. 
