Pavers Before New Marcite Finish

[Kouri]

We are new owners of an old pool. We're having pavers installed over the concrete pad/deck prior to new Marcite finish. Cutting the coping stones will create quite a lot of stuff falling into the pool. Since the pool will be emptied it seems reasonable to let the debris fall into the pool which is what the contractor has told is the norm. We have also discovered that the skimmer doesn't work and have ordered parts to repair; our hypothesis is it was disabled for an automatic pool cleaner. Should we try to cover the pool to lessen the mess? Should we keep the filter and skimmer running during the process and if so for how long?

Thank you.

 

[Geebot]

We are new owners of an old pool. We're having pavers installed over the concrete pad/deck prior to new Marcite finish. Cutting the coping stones will create quite a lot of stuff falling into the pool. Since the pool will be emptied it seems reasonable to let the debris fall into the pool which is what the contractor has told is the norm. We have also discovered that the skimmer doesn't work and have ordered parts to repair; our hypothesis is it was disabled for an automatic pool cleaner. Should we try to cover the pool to lessen the mess? Should we keep the filter and skimmer running during the process and if so for how long?

Thank you.

You seem to be contradicting yourself, if you intend to empty the pool before the deck work then why would you be running the pump for the skimmer/filter?

Are you sandblasting the old plaster finish off the pool? If so, that will be way more of a mess than whatever debris is created from cutting the coping.

 

[Kouri]

You seem to be contradicting yourself, if you intend to empty the pool before the deck work then why would you be running the pump for the skimmer/filter?

Are you sandblasting the old plaster finish off the pool? If so, that will be way more of a mess than whatever debris is created from cutting the coping.

To be honest, I don't know how they remove the old finish. The pool will not be emptied before the deck work; deck work then pool refinish. I've never refinished a pool so I may asking questions that make no sense -- just trying to not miss something important!