It's been a little bit since I have last updated.
Last Thursday, the decking crew had a giant pile of sand and another pile of fill delivered to my house and used a bobcat to move the materials around. With every load of sand they would bring in to line the pipes in the trench, they would scrape a load of rocky dirt from around my yard to deposit in their trailer. At the end of the day, they moved the rest of the fill dirt to a big pile in the backyard. Only problem now is because the travertine was placed along the side of my driveway, there is a tone of bobcat tracks I need to figure out how to clean off of my paver driveway, but no popped pavers or other damage.
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Yesterday, the coping crew came to lay the mortar bed on the bond beam for the coping and to shape the coping to bullnose (the 6x12 bullnose was out of stock at the time of order and they had the means to shape them). I left my pop-up out as I know it gets hot out here, so all of the progress of them working on shaping the coping could not really be seen from the camera. I took a look at the pile after they left and the shaping looked well done (couldn't tell it was shaped on-site).
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Today, the coping crew really got to work on laying the coping down. They started a little after 7 and worked until a little after 4. It was nice to take a look and see how meticulous they were when they were marking cuts. They did a dry fit of all of the coping pieces in each section between rocks before setting them permanently. Unfortunately, a dust storm started blowing through my area around 4, so they had to hurry and protect their stuff. My pop-up suffered a damaged leg from the wind, and we ended up having to break the leg off in order to close it otherwise even the sandbags I use to hold it in place will not guarantee that it would have stayed in place. (I had my gazebo pull the anchors out of the ground at my last house and ended up halfway in my neighbor's yard many ears ago and it is quite common for people to have trampolines fly into their yards from these winds). I feel bad that I won't have a pop-up for them tomorrow with the sun, so hoping I can pick another one up this weekend. I haven't been able to go outside and see the work or take pictures, but I will as soon as this storm is over. From what I can see so far, I think it looks good.
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One bit of bad news though. After we pulled the form off around the skimmer and autofill, I found a void in the bond beam, so now Shotcrete will be out Tuesday to fix. There were no cracks on the inside of the shell at that area, luckily and the other surface cracks I had seen before passed the crowbar test, but I'm going to have them looked at as well while he is here.
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. Seeing the tile in the pool makes it feel so close. When is deck scheduled to be done?
