Gunite went on today - turned out great. Let me know if you guys have any recommendations - I plan to spray it tomorrow and maybe every 12 hours? 24 hours? Haven't been able to check measurements because everything is so wet and I don't have a second hand but it was accurate with the rebar guestimating gunite and I saw the guys with tape measures all over the place so I think we're probably good.
CLICK HERE for today's photos and here's one of the final:
Also, I got the Dolphin Sigma in a couple days ago and tested it out on my dad's neglected pool. We had some rain this weekend which brought a bunch of dirt, sand, and leaves into the pool - and he had algae growing in spots his vacuum doesn't get (he hasn't manually brushed it in a while) as well as on the waterline. I was expecting it to get most things and maybe run a few cycles to have it mostly cleared up, but I was pretty surprised to return to find the pool completely clear of every single leaf and all visible dirt/sand and almost all algae had been scrubbed off. The filters were extremely easy to clean and had easily over 10x more capacity than was needed for the pretty dirty clean. Again, I have no frame of reference to the Warrior/S200 that many people here have - but I will say it was really impressive how well it stuck to the walls/stairs/benches when cleaning. It never fell back or floated and seemed to know if it was losing grip or needed to turn one side's wheels to get up a steep ledge or stair while keeping the brushes against the side. Other than our stairs and the crevices where the various edges meet which are probably too small for it to traverse - I feel pretty confident this thing will keep the pool exceptionally clean. Who knows if it was worth the extra - I guess I'd need to test them. I just liked that this was just updated hardware/software last year and seems to have some useful improvements.
Something like this is a lot more reasonable - though I think we need chairs instead of ones that lay fully back. Will be looking around - I'm sure I could fill them with water or even a little portland cement to keep them down. Our sunshelf is about a foot deep so it wouldn't surprise me if I have to weigh down whatever we get to keep it steady. I'm wondering how the bubbler will act in such deep water since I've read they're generally supposed to be in under 9" but we do have a 3hp pump for just the waterfall and the bubbler so I'm thinking we can get it really moving if we want to.
Looking forward to seeing your updates on your post! Keep the pics coming, this is idea time for us to finalize how we're going to do everything so I'm all ears. Also definitely let me know if you have any suggestions for our sanity as this process goes along. So far not too bad other than several days of "tomorrow" for the gunite before it finally happened here - had unexpected rain twice and then I guess the third time they had to go back to finish a shoot that got rained out. Irritating, but we just finished rebar exactly one week ago so I guess it's not bad.