So after my last update the project manager for my pool quit the pool company. This put a hard stop on all his jobs until another project manager could come out and see where each project was and what needed to be done. The owner of the company, a new project manager, and my original sales/designer guy came to the house and we did a walk through. The left with a list of items that needed to be corrected and/or finished. They seem to be doing ok going down the punch list. My new project manager is definitely "in training" so my main line of communication with the pool builder is now with my sales guy/designer.
I do have 2 major issues we are trying to work out.
1 is the brushed concrete pool deck has cracked in several places. I know all concrete cracks but this is excessive. They are suppose to come out Saturday and "fix" the cracks. Not sure what that means. They do know I plan to put Sundek down but in my opinion that should be an excuse for an ugly patch/fix.
2. The stamped concrete under the pool house is low in the middle by 3/4 inches. After a hard rain, water will fill the middle of the pool house and have no way out. The pool builder has said they will pay to have Sundek installed under the pool house which can be applied thicker in the middle to help drain the water. If they do what they say they will do I will be ok with this fix. I'm just thinking they may walk this back.
With all that said, Plaster was scheduled for today, however they showed up early Monday morning and got started on installing Wet Edge Primera Stone Blue Ocean. Plaster was applied on Monday. Tuesday they started the polishing process with went into Wednesday. Water trucks arrive Wednesday afternoon and the pool was filled by 8:00pm that night. The startup guy came out Yesterday (Thursday) and got all the equipment up and running. He then added sequestrant, calcium, and muriatic acid. I basically had an all day pool school and got a nice sun burn in the process. We brushed the pool 3 times and vacuumed twice. He is suppose to be back this morning to test the water and probably add muriatic acid to bring the pH back down. He said typically he would come twice a day for the first week but since I am an hour away from his office he may try to work out with the pool builder a discount or something If I would take care of the daily stuff after today. I told him no problem, so I will probably start posting a lot more asking questions about chemicals in the coming days to make sure I am doing everything right. Here's a few progress pictures from the past few days.