Jimrahbe,
That is the sewer line. Once the gunite is sprayed they are going to go back and reroute it. You are correct about them flashing the walls with gunite to stop the dirt from falling. You will notice on the left of the picture the gap between the 2x4 where the wall was collapsing. The utility easement made my pool narrow. I called the city hoping they would allow me to grab a couple of feet but was declined.
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Thank you for the knowledge! I'm going to mention this right now to my pb.
I tried the same thing with my easement. Bixby wouldn’t budge. My pool is just 6 inches wider than yours and the extra 10ft of length you have that I don’t is taken up by our spa.
Your PB will probably not agree with what is taught here. Most don’t know a lot about pool water maintenance. Do yourself a favor and arm yourself with as much knowledge from this site as you can. Doing this helped me tremendously when I was doing my build last year. On this site, I learned about my equipment, pool cleaners, and chemistry (among a LOT of other things), and when I requested things outside the PB’s usual offered things, I received a great deal of pushback. For instance, he almost refused to delete the suction side cleaner that I decided against in favor of a robot. It took 4 separate conversations and finally my insistence that he not install the booster pump and credit me for the cleaner and the unnecessary pump. I still ended up with unnecessary pipes. PBs are in the business to make money, not save you money or necessarily do the right thing for you.
Here at TFP, there is no agenda other than to help you care for your pool as cheaply and efficiently as possible, and help steer you away from gimmicks or anything that will cause you headaches.
Also, get yourself a good test kit- either the Taylor K-2000C or the TF100 (best value) are the ones you wants. They have all the tests we use here and we can have you keeping your water super sparkly with no need for magic potions or gimmicky devices.
We’d like to follow along on your build! Post up your story with LOTS of pictures!!! If you become a TFP supporter, you get a lot more storage space on this site. The small donation helps keep the board up and running.
Blessings to you!
