Thursday, October 16, 2008

Bit more progress

We're still here... waiting for the pool!




We've had a couple of weeks where progress has been a bit slow. Since the last post we had the plumbing all finished, the electricians installed almost everything and then found they had the older version of the control panel when I had asked for the latest version (because it will control the lights better :-))... quite impressive - they found the error and uninstalled the panel and waited for the new one to arrive. Given there is nothing in the contract about software version I am happy with that.


So that was one day we lost due to my fussiness.

Then we lost 2 days waiting for the inspector (but we passed first time, yay!).


Then it rained.


Then the coping guys took FOUR DAYS to install the coping and tile on the pool. Then we lost a day for no apparent reason which got us to this week. The decking is next and we had two beautiful days Monday and Tuesday but no crew... and now it's raining and the yard is one giant mudpit so no decking until next week at the earliest :-(


But here are some pics anyway:

Starting to take shape - you can hardly see the color due to the stone dust from them cutting the pieces to size:


The whole pool done - you can see the tile too - the water line will be halfway up the bottom row of tiles:


Here's the spa with the tiered spillway:

4 comments:

MattCan said...

Thats the ticket. I like the spa overflowing into the pool. Very hip.

Anonymous said...

Oh we're hip dude... :-)

Anonymous said...

Hi Em how many people does the spa fit. It is all looking great, although a bit of a clean up job to do. Do you have toi do it, or do the contractors have to clean up. Mum.

Anonymous said...

ok, now that i have worked out how to leave comments!!!! I have a great name for your pool - "The Michael Phelps Official Olympic training pool" What do you think??
It looks really reallg good!!! Keep posting cause I am loving the updates, oh and Matt i love hearing about your beloved margaritta device!!!!