Jan. 28th - Dig
Jan. 29th - Steel and plumbing "stub-out"
Jan. 30th - Gunite and “DONT TOUCH THE POOL KIDS!”
Jan. 31st - early clean up, you can touch it now, began digging and laying some pipe
Feb. 1st - Plumbing, gas lines, conduit
Feb. 3rd - Most boring Super Bowl ever, glad I was working.
Feb. 4th - 6th - Coping/Stone/Tile
Feb. 12th - 13th - Clean-up/Deck-Prep
Feb. 16th - Deck concrete poured
***Rain***
Feb. 25th - Plaster
Feb. @26th - Fill
He officially got our pool built in 30 days. The other PB we almost went with, that started on another pool down the street on same dig-day, finished two weeks ago. Both PB's have a few things left to do around the deck and what-not, but for the most part, I'd say we are near the ACTUAL finish line. IMO, he's not done until all of his services are complete, but dang he did get the pool filling with two days to spare.
They showed up yesterday to acid waRsh and clean the pebble finish. In Texas, you get an acid
waRsh, not just a
wash, at no extra charge. We went with WetEdge Tahoe with some shell thrown in. Really tried to push for some glass pebbles or larger pebbles for the spa and sun-shelf but PB wouldn't budge on including it. But we haven't brushed anything yet and we can already see some sparkle in the added seashell and it looks SWEET.
(1200-1330) - Spa finished in 1.5 hours and I clocked it right at 1,000 gallons. They were guessing around 600-700, I had no clue what to think, and there wasn't exactly a gallon figure in our design/contract...so we have a huge bath tub connected to our pool basically. We have a hard time keeping our 3-year-old keeping his clothes on when they get wet or dirty now, when he realizes we can heat the spa we may have another struggle.
We have pretty good water pressure and I've got two hoses on it. We did 667 gallons in 1.5 hours and that was with going through the water softening system. I bypassed that when we started on the pool. No particular reason. Just forgot we were flowing through it. So there is no telling how fast we are going now because I haven't checked meter since we swapped hoses to the pool, but it seems like its going pretty fast.
Color looks great and we haven't even gotten to brushing yet! Yesterday was pretty lame and overcast and raining so we are excited to see it in the sun although I'm expecting it to be a little cloudy. Any shade of water will beat the empty hole in the ground we had before!
PB is going to want to throw the polaris in there and let it run, but everywhere I've read it says NO WHEELED DEVICES! I'm going to let him test it out, then take it out as soon as he leaves.
Spa is filled, should I already be brushing it while pool is filling?!
Gas company has made contact back to me asking for money, so there is some progress for heat at some point
@Jbrillo !
Had some dirt delivered yesterday to keep us busy and outside watching the pool. Four yards is a lot for one guy and a wheel barrow. Blaise was crying and beating down the door to come help. Whatever it takes to keep him out of the pool, and give mommy an easier time. Keeping him from flinging dirt off of his shovel and in to the pool isn't easy.
Will share more photos and updates later today/tonight from it finishing up today. Fingers crossed the pumps work and pipes are connected correctly...
(here goes Kim spending your money again). I think every pool needs a manual vacuum for just in case you need to spot clean. You can buy a butterfly head (no wheels just bristles on the bottom) at Walmart or Lowes. The hose is pretty cheap as well.
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