Update - its been a quiet 10 days after the plumber finished his work - finally got a text msg from PB - Gunite is scheduled for Friday (hopefully it does not get delayed)
If anyone can offer any advice if I can get anything else done - should I call a sprinkler guy now/call landscaping - anything else I can get done?
Just wandered over here... I had my pool rebuilt this spring and a whole new deck installled. My PB suggested I get some Umbrella Holder's to install into the new concrete deck.
Like these. Or these. They cost <$20 each and my PB installed them for nothing, he just sticks them in the wet concrete right before the final smoothing, nice and perfectly flush with the surface.
Here is a link to what they would look like installed.
I had 9 of them installed all around my pool in areas where we would sit, so we had instant umbrella bases without those big, bulky heavy cement or sand or water filled bases. They are capped when not in use and flush with the deck. We move 2 or 3 umbrella's around from hole to hole based on the time of day or where people congregate.
Pro tip, don't make this mistake: I did what I thought was the smart thing and checked out the sun angle and placed these strategically around where I knew we would be sitting, including around the steps in the shallow end and the spa. But I did this in February, when the sun was low in the sky, and they worked perfectly when the deck was poured in late February. But now, the placements and the sun angle at/around summer solstice are much different and the permanent placements I thought I had brilliantly made, are not so great in the hot overhead summer sun. In the end ours still work very well but placement wasn't as perfect as I thought it was back in February.
If you have these installed, determine the summer sun and its angles vs your placement, but maybe place a few extra for winter seating when the sun is lower. You really can't go back and add these after the concrete deck dries, so get the placement right the based on summer/winter sun angles. Also they only fit 1.5" umbrella poles, so no large offset umbrella's with larger poles will work.
Happy pool building.
)....Plumber came in today - dealing with some rain - but just thought I would update (pics added)
