Building a pool with many questions

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Your concrete will be strong either way. It will be notably stronger if it cures optimally. Most pools do not get optimal curing conditions. Very few pools "break" because they aren't strong enough. Worrying about why or why not a PB does things that are in the past is fruitless, especially if you can correct them yourself today (as you are with watering), assuming they aren't recurring items on the agenda. You won't change a PB's mind on many things so in a nod to reality, don't beat yourself up (or them) about it. Stand your ground when you need to and realize when you need to and when you don't (that's an area where TFP provides amazing insight). You still need to maintain a good working relationship with them and that's really the most important thing going forward.

All that said, the top of my pool kind of broke recently, but it's fixed and life moves on.
 
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We’re making progress on the pool. I listen to everybody here and did plenty of watering of the shell . So now we’re getting toward waterline tile, plumbing decking, then the cage and I think the last thing is the plaster. My contractor uses Florida stucco “Gem finnish”which is a quartz aggregate like diamond bride. Are all these aggregate finishes created equal? I chose sky blue, which is what it’s supposed to look like in the picture.
 

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We are midway through the pool, build and getting ready for the pouring of the gray deck. Prior to that they do the plumbing. So they had to dig a trench in the yard over to where the pool equipment will be. They broke my pipe which they fixed, but then they left this wire hanging out of the ground and they don’t seem very concerned, but I am.. I called them and asked them if they did the call before you dig. They did do that and the property was cleared by the various utility companies. But that doesn’t mean there couldn’t be some live underground wire, does it? I don’t like the looks of this. Whatever research I’ve been able to do regarding types of wires would indicate that it’s electricity. When I question my contractor so far all they’ve said is maybe it’s an old wire. I don’t find that answer adequate at all. I don’t like to be a pain in the butt, but that is potentially a serious hazard. What do you guys think? Anybody recognize the type of wire? It’s not one I’ve seen before and I’m familiar with some wiring, but this one is black. I guess rubber or plastic but inside it is a solid tube of copper and inside tube is more copper wires.Thanks
 

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That is a coax cable, used for cable television, broadband cables used for internet connections, audio and video systems, and telephone trunk lines among other uses.
 
That is a BSW (buried service wire). It is what we ran to home from telephone terminal or buried splice. I have repaired many of those over the years working for AT&T
 
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Wait and see if something stops working.

Lots of wire gets abandoned over time. Many homes no longer have wired telephone service. Could be from an old cable TV provider. A prior owner could have been an Amateur Radio operator with an antenna in the yard.

As I said, it is low voltage and not hazardous.
 
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In my opinion, it looks like the type of high powered data transmission line used by the NSA to transmit Ultra Top Secret data between Data Centers.

It has braided copper shielding to keep the data from radiating out and being intercepted by nefarious characters.

See if the data on the line is encrypted with Mil-Spec 708 grade encryption.
 
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Here's what the other end looks like. In the red circle you'll see that same corrugated copper sheathing. 20240716_191253.jpg
 

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