Third time a charm- 3 rd plaster job on new build

[tjk65]

Yes I have a nightmare. Plaster sub did two terrible quartz jobs so now trying pebble. I guarantee they will throw the hose in and I won’t hear or see anyone again. Today was surprise plaster after weekly contact for a year. Yes they did a full chip out begrudgingly. Hoping for best result and going to try the Bicarb startup myself. I do have my TF test kit. Tested my fill water and here are my results
TA -150
CH - 200
PH - 7.2
Chlorine - 0

I am going to use to 5 gal bucket method and try to keep up with every 1000 gal. I am assuming they are doing an acid wash tomorrow then will fill. Least that is what they did with quartz jobs.

I will test water in pool again and walk thru the results. If I am doing right, if I used above readings for a 15k gal pool I would add 10 lbs of baking soda. Is my PH ok at 7.2? If I remember right pool fills in about 30 hours. We have terrible water pressure.

Any other advice? And I guess there is no chance we will get to use for 4 th of July. These 100+ temps looking at a cement hole have not been fun.

Thanks in advance for help and advise.

 

[YippeeSkippy]

Wow.... that's painful to read that you're on your 3rd plaster job. I hope its a new crew this time?
Just in case you need to review-

Plaster Installation and Maintenance - Further Reading

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Plaster Start-Up Guides - Further Reading

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Can you use the neighbors water and hoses to augment yours? Tossing them a bit of cash, just to speed up the fill?
Let us know how it turns out. Pics welcome.

 

[tjk65]

Ok they did the acid wash and pressure wash and started fill. Seems better than previous quartz jobs they had done. And no not a new crew PB refused to change crew and has them do over and over. Do I need to be concerned with these areas around the lights? Is there only one screw that holds the lights in? I don't know why, but for every job they have done we have had this splotchiness in the same area every time. I think it is how they do the acid wash and let it all run down and don't brush or wet. At this point I ma over it and just want a pool. We started this build in 2020.

 

[YippeeSkippy]

Fill it and see how it looks.