The liner is here! The rain the night before wasn’t an issue at all. They took the protective tarp off and smoothed out the base and then got to work on the liner. The liner was placed on a ladder across the whole pool and unfolded. They worked on the stairs/bench first and then moved …
This is the first weekend day that they worked and we didn’t think they would show up because of the forecasted rain. They were here at 7am and worked for about 3 hours. They put down the vermiculite pool base, the smooth surface under the liner. They started by filling in the bench and the …
It’s time to make a mess! A dump truck arrived early to drop off a huge pile of crushed blue stone. Then the cement truck arrived. They added vertical panels in the bench, stairs and sun deck area. Once that was done they started flooding the back and deep end of the pool with cement. …
It’s time to assemble the pool! A team of 6 showed up and got straight to work. They started laying out all the metal panels in the right spots and a small team started to set up the filter/pump area. One screw at a time they started connecting the panels and in a few short …
The final day of digging! It’s impressive that in 3 days they could do all this work. The digger guy is a magician. He even dug a little ramp with the last scoop for workers to go in and out of the pool area. I got to put my foot next to the bucket and …
They arrived at 9:30 and started digging right away. After the first truckload of dirt went away, they came back with stone and started filling in the bottom of the pool. I was busy working so didn’t check in to see what was going on as much as I wanted. Right around lunchtime, I peeked …
After several false starts, our dig started today. They arrived at 9:30 and were quick to do their final markings before bringing in the backhoe. They dug their first test hole to discover that our ground is mostly clay. Nothing that tons of stone, extra concrete and some extra money can’t solve. They started digging …
