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Thanks pistol18...wishing you the best of luck with you build. Ours has been filled with many emotions...started out as very exciting but its ending in handful of frustrations. My biggest advice is to just keep your expectations at a minimum (not with the product but the work/schedule)...its a...

Its been almost 3 months since my last post and the pool is still not finished. February was a terrible month for weather with a lot of cold rain so they couldn't make any progress with the concrete decking. The weather has been unseasonably warm in March and April so we expected to be done by...

Been a few weeks since i have posted. The backfill was done in early January and everything is progressing well. We actually worked the numbers today for concrete and should see some progress next week. We got a really good price on 1300 sq ft of extra concrete (1800 total) and cant wait for...

@Puffin...thanks. We can't wait either. Yes...the builder is taking care of the initial chemical balance. As far as the volume...that was a good idea...didn't think about looking at the meter. I bet the water bill will let us know..LOL. Probably compare the bill to last month to get an...

Yes...the walls are steel panels bolted together. We also had the option to go with polymer walls which I heard are easier and lighter to work with. The panels allow for custom shapes...my PB likes the rounded corners but we liked the grecian style. The bottom is a concrete mixture. This...

Day 40 something...so its been a few weeks since my last post. We have made tons of progress and the pool is almost done. In my last post I referenced our first liner that was the wrong size..oops. After chatting with the PB, he said that he could cut and reseam the extra vinyl and it would...

Thanks fireman23...I was pretty impressed myself on how it turned out. The contractor used a mixture of sand and portland cement (and water of course). I am not sure of how many parts were used for the mixture but it troweled out very smoothly. Day 26. Well, the crew came out and prepared...

Day 25. LOL...will definitely send you all the rain to keep it away from Suffolk if i could. Well another nice day and the PB has made some nice progress with the pool. Spent the majority of the day working on the plumbing. With it being the day after Thanksgiving, they could only work with...

Day 23. Wow...thanks Big_Kid...you must have brought us good luck. Even though there was rain in the forecast, the crew came out today to finish up the pool bottom before the Thanksgiving holiday. I might end up with a liner sooner than we thought. For the most part, things went pretty...

Day 22. Most of the floor in the deep end has been troweled with the portland/sand mixture. Unfortunately, we had a nasty storm move in that has made a few minor issues that will need to be repaired. To make matters worse, the blind drain pump stopped working as it was sitting in water from...

Day 18. The sub finally made some progress on the pool bottom. Using a mixture of portland cement and sand, his team was able to rebuild the collapsed walls. Quite impressive as this has been something that has had me worried. Before they rebuilt the walls, they spent a lot of time shoveling...

Day 14. The concrete footing has been poured around the pool now that the well points are in. It appears that the well points have provided very little benefit since we are not dealing with a high water table but rather water running between the layers of clay into the hole. The blind drain...