SeanB.'s Pool Build

[SeanB.]

Looks really good. You did a great job picking out the coping and tile. Too bad, in a way, cooler weather is on the way. I live in the Fort Worth area and my pool is now too cold (59 degrees this morning - low 70s in afternoon). It is still fluctuating but I think the swim season is now over for me. I did swim this last weekend though. You have a heater though for the hot tub. If you want to spend the buck$, you can swim year round. Good luck.

Mike

Thanks! We had a great salesman who helped steer us in the right direction on some of those choices.

It's getting cooler here now too. I won't be spending the money to heat it year round, but we will heat it for a couple days once it's filled. I just can't make the kids, or myself, wait until next year to try it out.

The Sundek crew is here now, we got rained out yesterday. I'll try to have some updated pictures this afternoon.

[divnkd101]

The Sundek crew is here now, we got rained out yesterday. I'll try to have some updated pictures this afternoon.

Sean, If you can, try and talk the crew into the rolling the paint down. Much better coverage than with the sprayers. Just a tip. My PB jumped the crews @$$ for the poor paint job they did on mine. They rolled it this time and it looks great.

[SeanB.]

Deck is done! First they pressure washed the entire deck, then dried it with a blower and then taped off the coping and house to protect from overspray. Then they put down a base coat, the texture and then the color.







I'll try to post a close up picture tomorrow. We had rain yesterday so I'm not sure what that did to the schedule, but God willing, we should be getting plaster tomorrow. We are meeting with the landscape designer on Saturday to work on our plant selection and layout.

[eljefe281]

It's coming right along!

[divnkd101]

OK, don't lie. You took off your shoes and walked on it with your bare feet, huh??? How did it feel?. Neck and Neck we are. My PB called yesterday. Plaster on Friday, weather permitting. They have already done the prep on the pool (Clean it out, drain water, scrape any loose gunite/ mortar). Let's keep our fingers crossed.

[SeanB.]

OK, don't lie. You took off your shoes and walked on it with your bare feet, huh??? How did it feel?. Neck and Neck we are. My PB called yesterday. Plaster on Friday, weather permitting. They have already done the prep on the pool (Clean it out, drain water, scrape any loose gunite/ mortar). Let's keep our fingers crossed.

No plaster today. Scheduled for tomorrow, but alas, so is the rain. I think it will probably be put off until Monday at the earliest. They said it becomes a real mess if it starts raining on them mid-way through plastering, so unless it's clear skies, I'm going to ask them to wait - can't believe I just wrote that.

[SeanB.]

Wow, things really went our way today! The weather has been good and the clean up crew showed up around 7:30 am and the plaster crew followed just after they were done.

First, here is the closeup picture I mentioned of the deck surface.


And here is the pool with the plaster finished:


And filling (I can already see I'm going to be cleaning lots of leaves this winter):