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mguzzy said:
oh geeze!.. somebody didn't follow somebody's instructions...
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Yeah, the didn't follow mine.

I made it as a condition of building the pool at all that they also fix the drainage. I lost at least two PB's that way in the bidding process. They said "no big deal". It was a bigger deal than they thought.. literally the sand base eroded away from two 1" rains, and the bricks started to drop in.... so the base is now sand, rock and some Portland cement. I talked with the foreman and he said the yard was "more wacked then they thought" ... I warned them....

I talked with him today because they started to use my $45/ton decorative gravel as fill. I asked him to tell them to stop doing that...
 
Probably not but I stopped them at probably a ton or so... It looks like they are making progress. In one way I feel for them having to redo it all but on the other hand.... They basically went from just sand to an "ABC" base... Would have been easier to do this from the start... But it looks like they have it halfway back... Back Yard_live_1567623804884.jpg
Technology, eh? :) That is yet another thing that I need to get permanently up once the dust storm of them working on this subsides... That camera is sitting in the kitchen window at present...
 
So, I am wondering if I should maybe invest in a couple of solar mats (or build something) to maybe get to use this pool this year. If I were to do this, I'd probably use my ("toy" 100w) PV panel and a 12V pump of some sort to make this 100%. I understand that here in Tucson these can be made to actually work.

I'd under size it at first and add on as I can. Since the front of the house is South facing (which otherwise is great here), I'd probably put it near the ground along the fence. I have 400 sq ft exposed on the pool, and of course I'll use a solar cover... but is it about right to assume eventually I will need need 200-300 sq ft of panel to make it worthwhile? Any AZ and Tucson people care to comment? I know at least one of you has a successful system out here.

I guess I am wondering if 100-150 sq ft is useful (1/4 sized of the surface area of the pool) as that is about all I'll be able to do this calendar year depending when they actually finish...
 

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Tell me about it. I did lose 6 weeks to the stupidity of my original home builder, but even taking that into account we signed at the beginning of April. So that's what now? About 23 weeks. Lets be nice and take those 6 weeks out... And they did say it would be about a month after we signed before they started... so... take out another 4. At 13 weeks. I am guessing at least 2 to 3 more to get done. 15 weeks. Most of the places that advertise in Tuscon, do show longer than national average advertisements for length of time to build a gunite pool. The three or four places here claim 60-75 days or so for a "complex pool" which mine isn't. So that's about 10 weeks. Yeah.. they are slow. Add in Pima County and the home builder.. we pretty much got screwed out of swimming this season. So I am obviously not really happy with any of them at this point.

I did know they are a little slow but I liked their pools the best when I saw several in the neighborhood... plus my wife liked their design the best and we couldn't get any of the other contenders to pledge to duplicate it and in many cases fix my drainage as part of the deal (which was mandatory, it's why I said okay on the pool it was only 3x the price of fixing the drainage)...

So... yeah... go take a dip for me, why dontcha? I am about to finish the electrical myself, to be honest.. the electrician was supposed to show last week. I CAN do that.. I passed the portable spa inspection with flying colors...
 

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