Last week

It is finally here, the last week of the pool build. Tomorrow the clean up crew will be here getting the pool ready for the final stage, the Isle Verde Diamond Brite (the inside of the pool). This is a two day process starting on Tuesday and should be finished up Wednesday morning where they shot the pool with a thick goo and trowl it out. Then the next day they will come back out and acid wash it to expose the shiny stones, then a good power wash to clean it all up. Right after that we start filling it up!! Hopefully it should only take one day to do this since we will be using both hoses. Below is a picture from the web cam of the finished deck and some of the furniture we have just put out.

Equipment Set

Yesterday they came out and set most of the equipment. Holy cow I did not think the filter was going to be that big, but it will definitely do the job (100 gpm filtered). I will build a fence around it all so the dogs don't decide to have an afternoon snack while we are not out there with them. Look what a great job they did on the plumbing.

Today they came by and pulled off the old stain from our existing deck. I had to come to the house because they popped the breaker using the grinder, thank goodness it is only 20 minutes if I use the tollways.

Deck pour is done!

Well the deck finally got poured yesterday. It was started with the forming and rebar on Monday and Tuesday then they poured yesterday. Here are a couple of pictures. So next week will be refinishing the existing deck and then spraying the Kool Kote on all the decking. Also next week they should install all the pool equipment and lights.

Rock is almost done

Ok heard from the mason today about why he was not showing up and it is a good reason. His 7 year old son was having heart issues, so I guess that is good enough. You can see by the pics below the rock work is going great now and they will be done on Saturday. They wont work tomorrow as we have the deck guys coming to lay out the deck.

Not happy with the rock guys

This is the first "not happy" post. The rock guys were supposed to be complete yesterday, but they decided not to show up Thursday, Friday or Saturday of last week and have only worked half a day Monday and so far half a day today. This puts us one week behind schedule with no way of making up time. So far they have the rock around most of the pool and hot tub but still need to cut the rock and grout it. So they still have 1 - 2 more days. We are bummed.

Tile

Yesterday the tile was laid down on the pool and hot tub. I can't wait to see how it will be against the stone. The stone should be started tomorrow and be complete on Saturday. Next step should start on Monday or Tuesday and this will be the decking (last of the big steps).

We have a pool

Today was very cool. The crews arrived at around 7:30am and started to prep the area with plastic tarps. They unloaded this large machine that pushes the gunite at great force out on the street. At around 8:30 the pool shaping began, this was very cool to watch throughout the day. Hope you enjoy the pictures below.