Took a look at what’s on the camera card and BINGO – I did take a few pictures of the day the baby fence guy put the fence in. AND his cute little dog!
Pool
April 19, 2010
April 17, 2010
Pool Building Day 30 – Sand but no day at the beach
You know what I love. I love when someone says they’ll be here at 11:00 and then 11:00 comes and there is no one here. Then 12, 1, 2 … 5.
What’s 6 hours right?
So these guys showed up over 6 hours after they were expected to sand the deck.
Then they pounded some more
Then they wet it all down and washed it down and left.
About 35 minutes after they got here. So you know they did a stellar job right?
But am I complaining… no because I’ve been the crazy lady for days now. I’m keeping my mouth shut until the next time I see Builder Bob again. Then I’m going to ask him the question I hear his as his crews, “Would you be happy with this job at your mother’s house?”
April 16, 2010
Pool Building Day 29 – More complicated than I can type
Okay when we last left the saga … The back side of the pool deck was totally effed up and we went a little crazy with post it notes and measured all the places where it wasn’t done correctly.
And I don’t even have the energy to tell you the kind of drama it took to get this fixed but trust me when I say there were calls and voice mails and calls and then some voice mails and then people came out and measured and discussed, ideas were exchanged and and there was even a small amount of money exchanged and then eventually. This.
Which a whole lot more like it. And then I collapsed into bed and passed out from the stress.
April 15, 2010
Pool Building Day 28 – I think I would rather have been paying taxes
Okay hands down this was the most nerve racking day so far. At the end of Day 28 I needed a box of wine. In fact it’s taken me a couple of days to get enough distance to be able write about it.
If you’ll remember when we last left the our story we were here.
The fellows showed up and started filling in the rest of the pavers
And as they got farther out they started laying out a visual of where the actual border and cut would take place. This is where I started noticing a problem
The problem really boils down to they try and train the sales guys to draw the pool plans and well frankly the guys who did ours I think wasn’t really that good at it. Good as in he didn’t account for the size of our plantings – and good as in he took what we said way too literally and wasn’t very “consultive” or creative.
So the drawings were off… So off that I was able to visually catch a big error in the larger space. The problem is getting them to deviate from the plan is not easy. As a sub-contractor they can’t work outside the plan or they won’t get paid – and I get that. I also get that it’s my deck and I want what I wanted. So I got on the phone and started calling the pool company. The mistake was easy enough to correct.. too much product on one side, too little on another. But it took phone calls and people coming out and measuring measuring measuring but it seemed to get done.
Seemed.
They did make adjustments but the fact is the plan was flawed to start with. Then they got lazy and for all the measuring. They still managed to mess it up. Right here where the boss and the other guy are measuring!!
And then I actually took this picture and thought “this isn’t right but surely it will work out after all the crap we went through this morning”
But right after this I had to go in and get on about 3 straight hours of conference calls and had to just trust that it was going to work out. Then about 10 minutes before I got off the phone the Dr. got home and I thought he was going to have a heart attack. He sputtered and he fumed and he measured. Oh Gah did he measure and then I had to make him call the people again because frankly I thought if I called again they were going to hang up on me.
The story continues the next day…..
April 14, 2010
Pool Building Day 27 – Holy Moly The Things That Went On Today!
To say that the amount of activity that went on today more than made up for yesterday is an understatement. If I didn’t know better I’d think the paver dudes read the blog and were all “we’re going show her.”
First they pulled up and dropped of this fellow who worked all morning by himself cutting and placing the coping bricks. Here he is shaving (yes shaving) tiny wedges off the bricks so they can be all lined up pretty on a curve.
He makes these tiny little slices with that great big saw and then they all line up perfectly like this
Then right as he finished the coping the rest of the crew showed back up to start the decking. This guy was in charge of pounding dirt. Sawyer wanted to know why he was vacuuming the yard.
Then these to fellows started bringing out the leveling sand …
And all of a sudden it started looking like this!!!!
In case you think I’m the only one that keeps an eye on what’s going on, fear not. The cats are on it.
Any way there was more pounding.
Then they started doing this weird thing with a string which you totally can’t see here but he’s drawing a line based on a string he’s got going from left to right. Then later we figured out he was setting the elevation of the sand because they went back and raked to the height he was carving out.
And then I went across the street to see a neighbor and came home and this was what I found. So yes they did quite a bit yesterday to make up for no work Tuesday.
April 13, 2010
April 12, 2010
Pool Building Day 25
The pavers and coping bricks arrived today!
Yeah that was exciting right? Big pile of bricks…
So I thought I’d show you something I’ve been forgetting to mention (mostly because I plan to have nothing to do with it)
Prepare to be impressed because my friend.. THIS is an XJ-5000!
Really!?! You ask… an XJ-5000!?!
No, I have no idea what it is but it does make all the men in the neighborhood gather around it and drink beer and stare and and say things like XJ-5000 then drink another beer.
I do know that the grey thing on the back against the wall is called an Ozonater (not this kind of Ozonater) And it makes the men all make Man Noises and then scratch their balls.
It evidently means we’ll use about 80% less chlorine than a regular non-salt system. Which means my hair gets to stay red… yeah hair!
Also notice that part that says Missing Computer (not “missing” missing so much as it’s “just not installed yet” missing) … that’s right baby this things got Wi-Fi! Okay maybe not Wi-Fi but definitely infrared or something because you program it from inside the house with a remote (Groan… one more remote to keep up with). I’m very happy though that I do not need to venture into the snakey side yard to deal with the pump.
And if you’ve come this far seriously you deserve a rewards so here is a sneak peek of the coping. (Contain yourself)
April 09, 2010
Pool Building Day 24: What’s Tile without Grout
Hmm evidently there as a price to be paid for these picture after all… Did it really require two beers to take pictures Ray?
Sooo… Grout. Not that exciting in pictures I guess.
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