I updated the first post on this thread to include a timeline. Just had the PB out for three days of work, they were making sure pool was level, swapped my pump to VS950, tweaked my equipment pad to my liking, finished the backfill and did a rough grade on rest of backyard. Side note - Thursday Pools (not my manufacturer) has something called
backfill eliminator and if anyone is getting one of their pools with a tanning shelf I would say you need to get that.
Had a ton of leaves fall in the pool over Thanksgiving so I spent two hours on the weekend with a hand skimmer getting those out. We have what looks like a murky iced tea concoction for pool water now, real nice shade of brown/green! I guess I need to wait until pavers are down before I can vacuum this out otherwise the mess they will create will just dirty the pool again. My PB was saying to use a special company for this with their own equipment since I should be winterized at this point. They didn't want me to run my equipment until I open to prevent having to re-winterize after the fact. I'm considering ignoring that recommendation so I can vacuum to waste and use my skimmer basket to make sure nothing bad gets into my pipes or pump. Once pool is clean I can then test out my spa to make sure jets are operational to my liking. If for some reason it's not, they can easily dig to fix any issues before I put down pavers. Thoughts? With a VS pump I was thinking I could keep it at low speed 24 hours even in colder weather and it would be ok? Avg temps in my area for Dec are 46-28 and in Jan 42-24.
Electrical is scheduled for Friday and then on to inspections. Then bond beam and coping and hopefully that's it for the pool build. Next step would be pavers and rest of backyard landscaping. Having sunny days with no one showing up to do work has been extremely hard to handle these past two months but weather is too cold to swim anyway so we are sucking it up. At least we are getting a jump on the 2020 season!

