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I am SO glad you can come here and let it out though. It is good to purge and get it out. Once it is out and gone you can move on and enjoy your pool! It looks great and they did an AWESOME job on the spa!!!!

Now what you are doing about the dry socket??

Kim:kim:
 
Exactly! Sometimes just venting and having my moment is all I need and then I can think clear and process it rationally. Lol

For the dry socket, I am sucking it up. I worked in the dental field as an assistant until last year when I hurt my back. And the one jar no one ever wanted to open was the Dry Socket Paste jar. It smells horrid. And what you do is soak some cotton in the paste and then pack the socket and then you have to redo it every 1 to 2 days. It takes a week or more to get the smell out of the office and lord knows what it tastes like. So I have decided I would rather deal with the pain than to even think about that stuff going in my mouth! Lol It has gotten marginally better every day bc as the gum grows over the exposed bone, the bone calms down. Given that I am female, over 30, on birth control, and had a lower impacted molar removed, each of those increases your risk of dry socket. My uppers were like nothing was even done. Super easy. But the lower started it's horrible pain Thurs afternoon. I am on 10mg oxycodone 4 times a day for my back and am taking 800mg ibuprofen 3 hours after the oxy and the pain is peaking over that but I can handle it. Today it only really hurt when I ate even though I don't chew over there. I see the Dr on Thurs. After this and endometriosis and gall bladder attacks, I think it is far to assume if I have a baby, labor will be a walk in the park! Haha Anyway, I can feel the socket has closed up even more as today went on so hopefully in a few more days it will be covered. It usually takes 7 to 10 days for the gum to cover the bone. I am on Day 8.
 
Shantelly - oh honey, I feel for you! Dry socket is HORRIBLE. For me, the only thing that helped was time. One day you'll wake up and feel better. I seriously remember praying to die for a spell it was so bad. I don't take pain meds well, and nothing helped. I wish for you a speedy recovery!
 
Thanks Amy. It sucks pretty bad! At least it is taking my mind off my back pain. I knew tooth/mouth pain was some of the worst pain ever after dealing with so many patients but now I know. It is in your head and just ugh. And after being on 10mg oxy for 18 months bc of my back, they certainly don't have the kick they used to. But every day is slightly better. Thx for the good vibes!
 
PS - I had gall bladder surgery two weeks ago. If you find you need it, do it. EASY compared to having my wisdom teeth out!

Also, I wanted to tell you that doing what I do, I am majorly picky and drive our entire staff crazy over details. I couldn't at first even figure out what was wrong with the stone. It's FINE. Move on. Let it goooooo! [emoji4] I promise you that people will be so in awe of your entire pool that NO ONE is going to take a second look at the back of that wall! You're hyper-focused (as are we all) on every detail - but no one else is! I'm sure your pain and misery makes it worse. Seriously - I hope you can move on and just watch everything carefully from now on. It's small in the scheme of the entire build. Hang in there!!
 
Amy, after 4 attacks and a final trip to the ER, I had mine out in 2011. The night of my surgery, I am upstairs recovering, and my mom comes crawling up the stairs in dire pain and vomiting. We figured food poisoning. Next week, same thing. Turns out she had gall bladder attacks starting the day mine came out, and a month later the same surgeon took hers out! Talk about sympathy pain! Then a few months later, my aunt has attacks and had to have hers out! Gall bladder pain is no joke either. I find I am doing similar things as I did with the gall bladder and am pressing on my face and jaw, trying to find a position that lessens the pain a little.

But yes I agree, totally hyper focused. I am at peace with it and focusing on the big picture. And heck, once that travertine goes down and the pool is filled, no one, not even me, is going to be staring at the back of the wall!
 
I can tell you that the more your project comes along the less you remember some of the minor details or even the delays. Now that my decking is almost done I finally feel like I have a pool and I don't even remember things like my spa being done wrong 3 times lol.
Your pool looks great and you have great features that are still to be installed.
Ps if it was on the front I would go to war with you and we would tear that wall down but since it's in the back it will become a distant memory:)~
Keep smiling
 
Thanks Will!! :hug: My rational brain knows that but my emotions take over some times. That's why I love my TFP peeps bc you let me vent but snap some sense in to me.

When it is just a dirty hole in the ground with mud everywhere and ugly, you can find the little things to fuss about. But once it all comes together, it will flow and look amazing.

Ya know, when I worked in bridal and event planning, I said a similar thing. If the event doesn't go exactly as planned, guess what, no one knows except for the people who planned it and at the end of the day, everything else was amazing and that little mistake did nothing to take away from the greatness of the wedding/event/etc. Time to take my own advice! :)
 
Yessss Kim!

Electricians are here!! Poor guys. Of course our breaker panel is in the garage - completely on the opposite side of the pool equipment (would have liked to put the equipment in the corner by the kitchen but septic lines prevented this). So given we have a 2 story house, not sure if they will go through the attic or bury the lines. We are paying for a surge protector for all pool equipment.
 

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Well the electricians got done in a couple of hours and the work is very clean and tidy. They have a few more things to finish up but PB has to do some things first (per hubby). No tile guys today, probably due to the threat of rain all day (of course it never did) but hopefully they will be here tomorrow. We are entering hurricane season tomorrow and seem to be jumping into our summer weather pattern of afternoon storms that just appear so you can't track them.

By the way, the actuators that control all the different features... Where do they go? We wanted acuators for each feature so we could control everything individually and PB said he will just charge us cost for them ($100 each) but I am not really sure what they look like and if they go on the plumbing area or in the breaker box, etc.

Pics of our automation all wired up

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I see they forgot some forms when they were here to pull them. And we need to spray the weeds back there. When can you put gravel or something down in this area? Once it is completely finished? Do we need to put landscaping cloth down to block weeds? Would love any input. I eventually would like a little shed or something around it (lots of ideas from Pinterest) and also need to talk to hubby and then electricians about running a light there.
 
I got the equipment pad!

Spray round up in that area. Mix it up strong and spray it first thing in the morning so it has time to dry before the next FL rain.

You can use roofing felt as weed block! It is MUCH thicker than weed block. Once the plant life is dead I would also pull up the dead stuff to make for a nice, smooth area for the weed block to go.

I would put larger size rocks/gravel. I LOVE how river rock looks! Then you fill in with medium size rocks.

I will be watching for what some one says about the valves. Oh you know what???? I bet you could ask Will or IMAZ! Let me know if you need help getting a hold of them!

Kim:kim:
 
Well apparently the actuators were already installed and neither of us knew! Haha

The plumbers came by and did some more things. Then today some guys came and formed out the stairs. After seeing Will's risers on his stairs being faced in the ledger stone, I am considering doing the same. PB has asked me multiple times if we were going to do that. I didn't think we were but the pics from Will's build looked nice so now rethinking. Also got the columns formed out and built in the correct place so the stone can be put on... And I just realized I didn't get pics of the columns. Oh well will update with those tomorrow.

Here are the stairs. You can see the stone already on the "inside" of the step inside the pool. Thoughts on continuing the stone on the riser of the step all the way over?

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Kim, good idea on roofing felt. I actually used that as my vapor barrier under the siding on my barn. I figured if it is used under shingles on a roof, it can go under my siding on the walls so we still have some left over.
 
It is a 1.5" x 1.5" and actually we like it better than the 2"x2" as it allowed for more iridescent pieces bc there are 16 tiles per 6"x6" vs 9. And what was even better is the 1.5"x1.5" was much closer in size to our ceramic 6"x6" tile. It was only a difference of 1-1.5 mm so basically not noticeable at all! So it was a win win in the end for us! The raised bond beam wall is covered in the same 1.5"x1.5" and it looks pretty amazing if I do say so myself! ;)

Here is the wall with the same tiles but also the base for the columns. I need to get to work making my concrete fire bowls.
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