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After doing some more precise measurements, most of the pool is actually pretty close to what we had asked for. The main stretch in the shallow end is just slightly steeper than we wanted, but it’s close enough. The main issue is that first 3 feet being somewhat steeply sloped rather than flat...

The slope actually didn't come out quite as we'd planned. Here is the elevation we had settled on with the builder: Note that the first 3 feet of the shallow end is meant to be flat, followed by 10 feet at a 10:1 slope, followed by progressively steeper slopes. Unfortunately the concrete crew...

Gunite was finished yesterday evening.

Here’s the equipment delivery.

We had some delays due to minor plumbing and rebar rework, but we’re spraying gunite as we speak! Here are the pics from yesterday afternoon before the pour. Also our pile of equipment arrived!

Yes, we’re surrounded on all sides with big oaks. Not looking forward to clearing those leaves out of the skimmers otherwise!

They finished laying all the rebar on Christmas Eve. Plumbing and electrical should go in tomorrow & Tuesday. Builders seem confident we’ll get all that done and inspected in time to spray gunite this week!

The pool was dug last week! We hit a fair bit of rock, but that's expected out here. There were a bunch of big boulders as well as solid rock shelves on either end of the pool that had to be jack-hammered through. Excavator had some equipment issues which set them back a little, but otherwise it...