Imagine Illusion 40 Complete 10/19/21

[Casey]

Now I feel better about the situation and I fixed it! It was stressing me out. Ugh... My forms are done for my new decking and steps. It's being poured tomorrow morning. I'll have one step down onto the new decking from the step. Hot tub form being poured tomorrow too.

 

[kimkats]

See we all knew you could do it! What is really neat is you did what was suggested BEFORE you read it! ONLY YOU would do that LOL

 

[Casey]

See we all knew you could do it! What is really neat is you did what was suggested BEFORE you read it! ONLY YOU would do that LOL

Was just going through and checking to see what I missed. I checked the one box on the ground beside the pad but didnt check the pump panel lid. So i grabbed the screwdriver and opened it. Maybe I just needed a nap? I was frustrated n walked away n went back to it.

 

[Newdude]

Maybe I just needed a nap?

They are truly magical. If I could go back in time and beat little me for all the naps I fought taking........ oh boy.

 

[Casey]

They are truly magical. If I could go back in time and beat little me for all the naps I fought taking........ oh boy.

Oh I know!!! I took a nap the other day n still didn't want to get up but I had a big German Shepherd nose in my eyeball. He had to pee.

 

[kimkats]

The nap helped reset your brain so you could re think things and it worked!!!

 

[Casey]

Concrete was poured today. It looks good. Its getting blotchy due to drying. That should go away in a few days as it dries.

 

[wireform]

You need to keep it moist so it cures slowly. Hot sun isn't the best. Have seen it wetted down and covered with plastic to slow it down.

 

[ajw22]

Water the concrete...

Watering New Gunite and Concrete - Further Reading

www.troublefreepool.com

 

[Mdragger88]

We poured concrete for a large shop when I was a kid & every day during the summer my job was watering the slab ! Good times!

 

[Casey]

I watered it every hour after it was poured yesterday up until 6pm. I'm not happy with the concrete but I'm not going to have it torn out. I told them that I need it sloped to the back fence n they missed the mark. Half of it slopes but there is a depression where the new meets the old. The guy was upset about it n I asked him when he showed back up, is this the new kiddie pool? I told him I wanted him to cut the concrete through to the ground. He said he didn't want to because it was pegged to the old to tie it in. He took a very large bit n drilled holes into the seam n it drained the water immediately but this job doesn't reflect the great job they did on my sidewalk n garage floor. I'm not hard to get along with but I'm not sure if I should have the old man out to look at it or not.

 

[Casey]

It looks like and I just went out to look at it this morning and I think I'm going to have them tear it all out n do it over.

 

[Newdude]

If you don't like it this much now, and you'll be looking at it for decades............... now's the time.

 

[kimkats]

It will only get worse as it holds water and stains and get uglier and uglier.............OUT it goes!

 

[Newdude]

 

[bmoreswim]

Sorry to hear about the drainage issue. If the areas to the left of the gate are acceptable, and your concern is only the area where the old and new concrete meets, you may consider having them cut out like a 6" channel and installing a 4" drain pipe with channel drains on the surface. My reasoning is that you already have the existing concrete sloped towards the new concrete. In order for the new concrete to take the water to the edge, it will have to be at least a little lower than the existing to rid the old concrete of water. Not dramatically so, but they couldn't get this right, so I'd be less than sure they'd get the next attempt right. The channel approach isn't perfectly clean though, because you need to be able to get the channel set in place. It's hard to do (or impossible) making it an exact width so usually they would cut it wider, maybe actually 8 or 10" and have a new strip of concrete on each side.

We had drainage issues too. They tried unsuccessfully to grade the deck to circle drains. We ended up with a modified channel drain.

But if you want it all redone, I get that. Just make sure they get that joint right as I noted above with the old sloping towards the new.

 

[bmoreswim]

We actually had one other area that didn't drain well. I ended up drilling a hole in the concrete (actually used one of the winter cover anchor holes and drilled it through with a 1/2" bit). I pull that anchor out in the spring when the cover comes off and the residual water drains down through it. It's not ideal as it can erode soil below the deck. But I figured there is a lot of rock (6-8") below the deck, then the soil below that is rocky. It worked.

Neither of these are perfect, but just sharing some options if a complete redo doesn't happen or isn't preferred.

 

[Wolfepack88]

You are in PA so you will have freeze thaw so water needs to drain off that correctly or you are looking at major cracking if that concrete doesn't drain right. Hopefully he doesn't drag his feet on this.

 

[Casey]

Here are a few of the embarrassing pictures of this concrete. This man does better work than this. I had them do my front sidewalk and my garage foundation with no issues what so ever.

 

[Casey]

My steps are horrific! And the decking... I have so much invested in this pool and the concrete looks bad.