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@duckcmmndr - or anyone else who may have the answer to this: I sometimes tend to be a bit OCD and somewhat of a perfectionist. When you were shaving in your walls, how critical was exactly 2" in depth? I'm trying to get it as close as possible, but some places are 1/4" higher or deeper - i can...

@duckcmmndr - incredibly helpful, thanks for the detailed response! This helps me out a bunch. Made some progress since the last post, but not a lot. Weather has been absolutely against me for this phase, rain with a few nice days in between - just not quite enough to let everything dry...

Thanks @duckcmmndr! I suspected the hopper will be a slow go process to get it perfected - hoping to get it done shortly so I can move onto the next steps. I was actually going to ask that question about the bond beam. Am I better off aiming to get this poured even before the hopper end is fully...

Some progress was made over the past weekend. On Friday we had heavy rains which lead to about a foot over water needing to be pumped out of the deep end. At this point, we need to finish digging the hopper end for the excavation to be complete. Hoping for continued dry weather to get that...

@duckcmmndr - thanks a lot for that information! This really helped out. Made some good progress over the past 2 days - majority of walls up and so far everything is nice and square and plumb. Going to get rest of walls up hopefully yet this week in hopes to get the bond collar poured at the end...

Good question. We will be digging back always and either regrading or placing a retaining wall and French drains.

Thanks for the link @Newdude. I’ll have to check it out! Made a little more progress yesterday and today. Entire shallow end dug and to grade, set up braces and dug the hopper bottom. Not so great weather in the forecast, can’t control it unfortunately.

After spending a fair amount of time last year attempting to find a pool builder, and coming up unsuccessful(Most were 2+ years out, or willing to do it for insane amounts of money) - we decided to tackle this project ourselves. The pool build is as follows: -Pool Warehouse/Hydra Pools 20'x40'...

Thanks a lot for the input! Unfortunately, we just went through a rain storm - so the excavation has seen some water. Looking at the future forecast - it looks like it will be relatively dry through the next steps of the process. I was actually a bit surprised after this rain storm that there...

Hello, I am in the process of excavating and have run into heavy clay. The environment we live in is very cold, and has a relatively deep frost. I have found some bits using the search function that sort of address this, but I'm still not entirely clear on the BEST approach to setting the...