This week, they started to lay the block for the outdoor kitchen and to build the wall around the pool equipment which will have a little shower in front of it. Here is a little video of the progress, plus…
Monsoon Madness, Cats and Why Being a Linux User Can be Tricky
Apologies for how few pool updates we’ve had! There are two reasons for this. One) we have had frequent enough monsoon storms that there have been significant delays. Two) Chris and I both run Linux rather than Windows PCs or…
Clean Up Crew
Up until yesterday, the backyard had basically been a massive mess. There were large areas that were difficult to walk across due to all of the trenches that had to be dug for the pool project. Yesterday, the pool company…
Shotcrete!
After the monsoon related delays, the shotcrete is finally in. Shotcrete is a form of concrete, but we only found out why the word “shot” is in it today. It is basically shot at high pressure out of a sort…
Clearing the Mud
Today the crew came back. Apparently they turned around, thought it was too much work and left. The owner of the company came himself and starting clearing the mud off the rebar and got the crew to come back and…
I Hear Thunder, But There’s No Rain (For the Most Part)
The pool builder was not immediately able to get a pump, so decided to see if the water would go down over the weekend. This is all very visual, so just have a look at our brief video update on…
There’s a Pool in Our Pool
Afters months of very little rain here in Estrella Mountain Ranch, it absolutely poured last night. It was a windy, messy, heavy storm that lasted much of the night. This particular night was the night before they were meant to…
Chris Goes for a Walk in the Rebar
Tomorrow they are scheduled to put the shotcrete in the pool. Shotcrete is basically a form of concrete, so that is when it will go from being a large hole full of dangerous looking pokey things to something starting to…
The First Inspection
As promised, we are more on top of the new updates. We had our first pool inspection today. Here is a short video. Watch to find out if we passed: