New build, Houston (Cypress), Tx

[KenGood]

So tonight around midnight, if you hear a long squeal of joy followed by a loud kersplat! Don't worry, it is just a slightly overweight 52 year old man giving the slide a test run. A couple seconds of joy followed with many aches and pains since there is no water, but I really want to give it a test drive.

 

[cbink]

So tonight around midnight, if you hear a long squeal of joy followed by a loud kersplat! Don't worry, it is just a slightly overweight 52 year old man giving the slide a test run. A couple seconds of joy followed with many aches and pains since there is no water, but I really want to give it a test drive.

Haha! It's so tempting. My PB really wants to go down it too! (As do I, but I figured that went without saying!). It needs whatever the final finish coat is on it before it will be slick (I think it's a special form of epoxy but the guys today were quite coy about what it actually is).

All going well it should get water on Tuesday, be full sometime on Wednesday and hopefully all being well we'll be all finished by next weekend.
My wife freaks out at me because I'm walking around the edge of the pool, along the spa spillover and have been walking down the slide. At this point I think I'd be as worried about what the pool of water would do to my skin as the pain of actually hitting the bottom. It's a pretty nice brown down there right now...

 

[cbink]

Let there be fire!

 

[KenGood]

Yeah! Congratulations!

 

[KenGood]

My wife freaks out at me because I'm walking around the edge of the pool, along the spa spillover and have been walking down the slide. At this point I think I'd be as worried about what the pool of water would do to my skin as the pain of actually hitting the bottom. It's a pretty nice brown down there right now...

My wife refuses to watch anymore as I am constantly walking on the slanted top of the negative edge.

 

[cbink]

So it's my wife's turn to be excited today... They are cleaning out the pool of all debris and water.
They also came and did the stone sealing this morning.

 

[cbink]

Clean pool - no more brown water and bits of junk in it!

 

[cbink]

Slide is finished!

 

[TexSS]

Awesome! I wish we had more room for a slide...


~TexSS

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[KenGood]

It is a true slide or will there be a pump to add water to it too? I continue to love the slide. I do not think I could like it anymore than I already do!

 

[cbink]

Ken - yes, it will have water flowing down it. I'll get a photo of the slots where the water will come out at the top.
Can't wait to see water flowing down it and the waterfall.

 

[cbink]

Here are the slots for the water to come out. It should come out as sheets of water.

 

[KenGood]

I showed my 14 year old daughter your slide and all she could say was "I want one of those!" I said we were a little late. So we will just have to settle with coming for a visit. :-D

 

[cbink]

Ken and TexSS thanks for the compliments. We are very happy with the slide. It looks great now it's all done.

Visitors always welcome! We live in a great little neighborhood and all socialize so there will be lots of parties/gatherings here (and at our neighbors houses). We've already started talking about doing a neighborhood crawl when it cools off a little and going from house to house and having drinks and little bits to eat and then end up at one of the houses with a firepit.

We got really lucky - we have great neighbors.

 

[cbink]

Looks like the sealer is working

 

[cbink]

Plaster day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[KenGood]

OMG! I'll be right over! Ha! Hope all goes well.

 

[cbink]

Me too! I'll be pestering my wife all day as I've actually had to go to the office today to do some work so I'm fully reliant on her updates today!

 

[cbink]

I may have run some water down the slide yesterday too, just to see how slick it was. It may have been very slick!

 

[KenGood]

AND I may have been watching since I am stalking your slide. Not you, the slide. Ha!