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Howdy,

Hi Kim, we do not have the tile in hand, we needed to get the next round of gunite shot so we could better determine how much tile we will need? Gunite showed up late yesterday and only had enough time for 1 truck so they showed up early this morning for the 3rd shoot. Here are the pictures so far.
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Waterfall wall with foggers & fire feature. (of course we leveled everything)

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Grotto getting the lid & walls shot.

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from deep end of pool looking at shallow end, step-down rock from cabo shelf and rock features.

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grotto & waterwall from ground

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shallow end view from top of slide / grotto area.

We will get our final gunite shoot next week and then that part will be done!!! This is exhausting and I'm not the one doing the hard work!
 
WOWER! What great detail!!! Love it!

It is time for your own set of links! It is a lot of info so take it slow. It will all start to sink once you start using it:

Print these out:
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Kim:kim:
 
Hi Kim & Thank You!
More pool school! :D Lots of reading for sure.
Slow around here until the 4th (and hopefully final) gunite shoot, we knew it would be allot of gunite but we definitely went over budget in that area! It has been raining off-n-on here so its been nice that I didn't have to water my concrete, supposed to be sunny for the next few days so I will now have to water, with all the watering it would be nice if it grew some though? The good news is my drainage works awesome! but I still have an empty bare muddy backyard. Ordered little RGB LED's for inside the grotto fortunately I ran allot of smurf tubing (H-Depot $38 for 100') in the waterwall and grotto so when I need to run wires. tubes, or cables its pretty easy.
Thank You,
Dustin
 
We ended up with a total of 4 gunite shoots and a total of 63 yards....OUCH! But we did save some money by going with yardage instead of the porject bid. Things are a little slow for now but progressing, rock guy is cleaning up the gunite rebound off the rocks and we are anxious to see some color and texture but we know these things take time. I have been cleaning the yard and getting everything setup for our pavers (15 pallets), not conventional but we ordered the pavers from Florida, about $3,000 less than getting them locally but they will be delivered to a local business where I have to pick them up and finish deliver them myself, will cause me a few hours of work with a lift-gate and an electric pallet jack but worth the additional delivery cost & savings (residential delivery was about $600 more than bus-to-bus delivery and still didnt include a forklift or pallet jack). We ordered our lightstream glass tile Steel Blue and will be getting the coping ordered from NPT in the next couple days.
 
Latest update is the Travertine Pavers were delivered to the trucking company on Tuesday, I rented an Enterprise lift gate 26' truck and a manual pallet jack... after the first load of 5 pallets I went and got an electric pallet jack! The electric jack was fantastic/life saver/awesome... until after about 90 minutes in it would not hold a charge nor recharge! (technician came out after hours and couldnt get it working again!!!). I was able to move 5 more pallets and get the last 5 loaded onto the truck before the electric jack died, then the last five were pure muscling it up the driveway. I got 3 pallets into the backyard and 11 pallets in my garage shipping weight 45,000 Lbs total. This past rainy weekend I moved the 11 pallets out of the garage on friday and saturday via a wheel barrow and stacked / staged them in the backyard, Advil and beer are great lower back pain killers! Starting to feel much better as of today Monday. Not much new regarding coloring of the rock because of the rain but still really looking forward to seeing it start to become a reality.

I will post more when I know or see more, thank you and good luck!
Thanks,
Dustin
 
Monthly update:
Rock guy is still doing his thing, with the weather the way its been he hasnt been able to seal and paint as much as he would like (dont feel sorry for us, we were in Europe for 2 weeks so I didnt mind the slow progress). Still haven't gotten our lightstream tile (wow Kim you were 100% correct when you said they were a little slow!). But we are moving towards the last stages, once I get tile then coping installed I will start the deck process and then its just equipment & plaster so the end is in site! However contacted the plaster company and they said they are 4 to 6 weeks out regarding bookings, so we are going to need to get things figured out here shortly otherwise we wont be swimming until mid july.:mad: I did change my grotto light to a pentair landscape light, go-figure pentair conveniently makes an incredibly expensive lanscape light system that ties into your pentair automation system,so for the low price of $150 I purchased one landscape light for the inside of the grotto. I am sure I will buy a few more of these once I start landscaping but for now one was all I could stomach (can we say captive market)?
Thats it for now.
Thank You,
Dustin
 

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I don't have any updated pictures, I will take a couple this weekend (expecting rain for the next couple days), like I said he hasn't done allot visually/progress wise. basically he has further defined many of the rocks and sealed the waterline and under rock formations, he is now working on the detailed little things (like hiding the land$cape light inside the grotto). Talked with Lightstream yesterday and supposedly shipping mid-next week?
 
Lightstream is about 100 miles from me, so if they ship by next Friday I should have it by the following Tuesday or Wednesday? Once we get the tile we will get the tile and coping installed fairly quickly, then its finish rock, pool equipment, and the one I am not looking forward to decking, then plaster/pebble, then hopefully just add water and watch for results?
 
I hope you get good timing results from Lightstream. The product is great looking, but there have been some not so good experiences with quoted shipping times and delays, etc. reported from folks.
 
Hi bmoreswim and cantswim2047,

I have seen your build and am also watching it, looks good so far! There were a few reasons why they couldn't shoot all of the gunite at once; first was the design required at least a second day of shooting since the grotto rebar needed to be shaped into place after the initial shoot. Second shoot was cut short because of weather if I remember correctly? Third shoot, reason/excuse scheduling had them show-up at the end of the day and knew that they were going to need more trucks and didn't want to work late....(cant blame them for that) and the roof of the grotto needed to firm up before finish coat could be applied. All in all we had 63 yards of gunite if we had just done the pool shape it would have been done the first day with about 28 yards shot but because of all the fake rock and everything we ended up with allot more.

I am very much hoping that I at least get a notification of shipment by Friday, I spoke with him last Thursday and he said they would ship "this week, midweek".... so like I said hoping for a Friday notification of shipment (but I am not holding my breath yet)!

I took some pictures this weekend, I will try to post later today/tomorrow (still not much different than above picture).

Thank You,
Dustin
 
The latest round of pictures, rock guy is progressing (was a concern for a while, he was working just not allot of visual progress).

Tile was supposedly shipped today and should have by midweek (I turned the wife loose on him and amazingly she got results).

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There is still allot of work to do.
 
Thanks Kim,

Yes it is a hurry-up-n-wait process but OMG I got my tile today!!!! I am so happy just for the miracle of progress :eek:

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Thank goodness for small miracles! And I don't want to admit that sometimes you have to send in the enforcer (the wife) to get things done...

Dustin
 

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