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While walking around the local big box store these palms caught my eye! I don't like most of the palms here because they have some sort thorn or pointy tip foliage, but these "Bottle" palms are soft and smooth. Now I just need to figure out where they should go. I moved the three best ones...

Thank you Kim! Funny thing about that picture that I took of the tile and missing grout was I lined up the shot to get the best view of the colors from the sun...didn't even realize the missing grout while doing it because I was fixated on the tile o_O. Finally noticed it after the pool was...

Now on to phase II! Bar patio and fire pit patios with TV/Projector screen arbor and circular/cantilevered pergolas Using these for motivation: Circular Pergola around fire pit seating: Arbor/Pergola for Bar patio:

After a short 2-month swim season this is all the stuff I regularly came across: Standard Boatmen and Back-swimmers: Scorpions seem to love the pool as much as we do...found 1-2 every week: Giant Water Bug (almost 3" long!): Not sure what these little worm looking things are, but hopefully...

Before the gratuitous shots of the completed pool...the final layer of the decking was finished a couple days later. Before: After: And without further adieu...Almost 5 months after the wife suggested we get a pool: Night Shots: Thank you TFP for giving me the methods to get and...

Five "agonizing" days later :): Found this spot creep up while a tiny puddle dried: Luckily, it came out when they came back to acid rinse and power wash: With fill-up time right around the corner I decided to test the water that would go into it: Looks around 2 on the Chlorine and 7.3...

While waiting on the plaster date, the decking crew came out to get started laying out the forms: And a couple days later we had more concrete: To help give it a more finished look and keep little feet from being scorched on hot concrete, they will come back with a texture and paint...

We were finally able to take off the soaker hose, they came and pumped out the excess water, and the dirt crew came back out to cover up the trenches and level out the surrounding yard from all of the equipment moving around back there: The mason now had a clean workspace and the new stone...

After letting the concrete set for a couple days, they came back out to apply some concrete sealer to the horizontal surfaces of the pool and the top of the bond beam: We still had a few more days for the concrete to cure, so in the meantime the electrician and plumber came back out to finish...

Sorry about responding to your question so late. I just happened to pop in as I'm getting ready to update this thread as I try to start phase II. I'm going to assume you already decided on a builder since it has been close to 4 months, but just incase you haven't or others in our area are...

Needless to say it has been an interesting, and at times trying, week and a half since my last update. Good news is, as of this past Monday, we finally have a concrete pool...bad news is there were some professional dealings I would rather not have had to get to this point. Hopefully that has...

Unrelated pic for yesterday...We are in a heat-wave that is nearing record highs so the chance of grass fires is up and only compounded by the lack of rain we have had the past couple of weeks: These were taken from my roof shooting across my backyard. Happened right next to a subdivision...

Good progress was made yesterday as well! The steel workers had almost a 12 hour shift but got their job done: I will probably need them to come back out though as the tiered entry steps don't look centered/symmetrical and the benches jutting out from each side are supposed to be 4' long...

Yesterday was the last day for the excavation crew. They had a couple places that needed some final attention and then came the gravel base: A shot of the pool from the existing patio and above: They brought in the steel and plumbing to start tomorrow and hopefully be done by Monday for...

Here’s the progress they made yesterday after spending the whole time busting up rock and finessing the walls and steps. They say the pool bottom is graded and ready for gravel. Unrelated picture for today...one of the dig crew found this guy on my front porch:

No my wife has made me toss out rocks I’ve tried to use for landscaping before so figured I would save myself from that and let them haul the rock away this time :p

In more ways than one...spoke too soon about not needing the rock buster:

Well we are officially part of the "hole in the ground" club! They started digging yesterday morning: Trench for plumbing and electrical where the equipment pad will be: I also had to finally take down the side fence to prepare it to be moved forward so the equipment is not visible from...

They are supposed to bring the equipment back out this afternoon to be ready to start digging tomorrow morning. So this morning I went ahead and ordered all of the equipment I need (hopefully). Only thing I wasn't sure about was a check valve or if I wanted to bother with one with an...

Another week gone and we are still looking at half-dead grass, albeit with another color painted on it The pool is now 2' longer, 2' wider on the shallow end and almost 3000 gallons more than before I'm also pretty much set on upscaling the Easy Touch to an 8 and had an idea I wanted to try...

Foos, Thanks for the feedback! I contemplated weather or not to put them on the same but two thoughts came to my mind...am I ever going to be in the backyard and want to run one and not the other - and I was only looking at the 4 relay controller so keeping both on one would not tie up a relay...

@ctrav - thanks for the feedback! I still like Option 3 also, but I should have been more specific when I put the price differences. I should have compared to the PB equipment list which only had 2 GloBrites total. Adding the extra 4 is really like $1100 more than what they told me to get :p...

It's been a month since we signed the contract so the wife and I are a little sad that we still haven't broken ground. To the PB defense we had to wait almost 2 weeks for HOA approval and we were on vacation for another week, but it seems like the changes we requested are taking longer to...

In other news, I finally made a decision on the pool equipment. Since I love using my phone for everything the big problem I saw with Hayward was the frequency that they kept their apps updated. If I'm going to spend this much on an automated system then I would like to have something pointing...

Yeah I'm hoping it was because of the weather and not because I submitted another change request. I'm sure my designer's patience is running thin at this point since this is like revision 11 :p When they came out to mark the pool I thought it looked a little close to my orchard. I grabbed a...

They just used the regular lawn marker paint. I’ve stopped maintaining my grass in that part of the yard so it got pretty tall. I took the lawn mower to it afterwards to help see the lines since they used green paint on green-ish grass. They came back and picked up the bobcat so not sure what...

Back from vacation and the designer came out with my supervisor this past Friday to do a preliminary layout to make sure everything is where we want it before they make a big hole in the ground: But after the wife and I walked it and thought about potential occupancy we decided to enlarge it a...

Did you have any pictures of this? Thinking of doing the same with our RBB Sheer.

where did you get your stuff from?

Interesting, I didn’t really think of it that way. My take on it was more of a “Holmes on Homes” approach where he has to really know how to do things right if he’s telling other pros, or maybe “pros”, they are doing it wrong. My designer had the book on his desk and says he still references...