"BUTTTTTTTTTTTTT this is how we always do itttttttttt" NOT here buddy! My pool=my money= MY way!
Good job!
kim
Good job!
kim
Jamie,
You need a hard-hat, clip board, bullhorn and a stretch-tee shirt that has "UNDER CONSTRUCTION" printed on it and a cigarette pack rolled up in the sleeve. Then the subs will learn to NEVER mess with a pregnant mother of six
Good luck and keep the whip on them!!
Matt
PB's get paid to deal with this stuff. You are getting paid too by saving money. No one said it was easy, but think of it this way, if you did have a PB and wanted it done right, you would have had to do part of his job anyway in all likelihood...and not have had any savings at all.
The kids are probably so excited! I know my kids were just fit to be tied with the excavator in the back yard.
It is really awesome that you found a fossil.
I will say I can relate to them wanting to do it their way and not the way you want. I got so frustrated by this because some where flat out refusing to do what I wanted. Their way would have meant a pipe going through my deck up to my hose bib 14' up. That isn't including the problems with freezing etc... I finally won that one and have the water supply for my pool tied into my irrigation system. I totally understand but I wouldn't let up continue to get what you want. They won't have to live with those choices for years but you will.
"BUTTTTTTTTTTTTT this is how we always do itttttttttt" NOT here buddy! My pool=my money= MY way!
Good job!
kim
+1 on being there to answer questions all the time. I feel like this is what makes it better than with a pool builder. Example: the guys were putting in my equipment pad concrete and were going to put the concrete flush to the shed. They wouldn't have asked anybody. They would have just done it. Because I was there I said "necesita separacion para que podamos moverlo en el futuro".
Also, I got small things for my workers at the beginning and end of the day. Breakfast tacos in the morning, offered beers at the end of the day. At the end of the tile job, we had tequila shots. I feel like because they know that I'm the owner who's paying, talking to them in Spanish, being nice, that they will take good care of me. Maybe they won't give me any special treatment but it feels right since they don't make that much and breakfast tacos are pretty cheap at Taco Cabana.
Agreed about having rain hold off until you are through gunite, but going somewhere it's not. And certainly not caving in with that quarry.
I noticed the color change right off. That stuff looks pretty! How many truck loads have they taken out so far?
I bet he was bummed.......that is a lot of hard work! He gets his own 6-pack!
Kim
Congratulations Jamie thats a great design I love that shape can't wait to see this finished.