Need order of operations

[NWMNMom]

Oh, please do! That would be great to see a step by step.

[chazzilla]

My wife is on top of the pictures. I like them to because I can say"See I told you I could do it!" I will try to keep her taking them through the whole procedure, and post when we are done. Here is where we are at now: The old install included a hard bottom called pool krete. my issues with this product are it is VERY hard to trowel it smooth. I've poured patios and such, but when you put a pool light on it at night you will see everything. That being said I feel it will be great under the pad. It does provide great support. Issue number 2 the concrete bottom mixed with drop in wedding cake steps, with no pad between the two was a horrible idea!!!!! That come to find out is were my 1000 pinholes in the old liner were. If you are putting in wedding cake step invest in a pad, please take it from me. So I am currently digging out the old cove made of dirt and poolkrete. I have some extra bags of the stuff(Bags like quickcrete) and I will poolkrete to the wall but flat this time. How well does the "bottom" fit against the foam cove? Does it cover it, or overlap it? The foam cove I got is the sticky back kind, so would it not make better sense to do the bottom first, then stick the foam cove against the wall on the bottom, then wall foam. Is it just preference? Also old liner was a J-Hook Liner that we found hard to get the wrinkles out (because our cove was too big )so we are going with an overlap liner this time. Thanks for all the support!