Our pool is FINALLY done! It should be finished filling with water by lunch time today. It's taken SO long, but it looks nice. I'll have pictures up later.

It's taken FOREVER, but they FINALLY made some progress on the pool. Here's what it looks like after all the brick has been laid. You'll notice that they not only put red brick along the pool, but they rebuilt the brick wall for the planter. Next up comes some blue tile around the pool, then cement the backyard. Joy!

Woohoo! Today we FINALLY got our pool filled with gunite. Seriously, it took them SO long. Originally they said they would have it done when we went to Maui... That was several weeks ago. Then it was going to be done last friday and that didn't work out. Then it was yesterday, then today at 7am. Then finally they settled on 11am and showed up at 12:00. Needless to say, my parents are not exactly super excited about this pool company. From what I've heard, the company is dumping the subcontractors that did the gunite because they have been real slow lately. Anyways, next comes the concrete deck and brick. Joy.

Here's a few pictures after the plumbing and electrical was finished. Supposedly, this friday will mark the start of gunite. With the current record of this contractor, I wouldn't count on it too much...

Today the steel was installed into the pool. Supposedly, the two guys that did all of this did it in half a day. If that's the case, I'm impressed. It's starting to take the shape of a real pool, not just a hole in the backyard. Joy. Next comes an inspection and then electrical/plumbing gets installed. We're hoping next week they will pour the concrete.

After day 4, our new pool is almost dug. They've got the shallow end dug out completely as well as the spa shaped. The steel guy was already here today asking when he could start. Looks like if they finish digging tommorrow, we'll get the steel started ahead of schedule. In case it looks a little shallow, the depth of the shallow end will be 3.5 feet when all is done. The hole is currently 4.5 feet deep.

Today they dug more of the pool. They will probably finish digging the pool tommorrow, unless they hit more huge rocks. Notice how rocky our soil is. Also, I found an interesting picture of a giant root. You can see a pipe that contains 2 smaller PVC pipes, but it also contains a nice big root that found its way all the way to the grass. Cool

For those of you who don't know, we're getting a pool put in. The just started the demolishion of our backyard on Friday, and I was planning on keeping some sort of photo log detailing the things they're doing. So here's days 1 and 2. You can see a few before images and then they start removing concrete. Day 2 they get some more concrete out and remove the spa. By the end of the day, most of the pool has been partitioned off. On Sunday (day 3), they'll finish partitioning it off and start digging the hole.