Aloha Pool Posse,
With the end of this week came the end of our hardscaping project. Cement is dry, Conneticut Blue Stones are in place and boulders were delivered (yes Kelly, the jumping off one is situated in a safe part of the pool).
It really looks great and was totally worth the money (gulp)! And no we didn’t get a discount because I was born in Greenwich, spent way too many hours in a Greenwich night club in my youth or new Ashley Ransom…the Conneticut connection doesn’t get you that far these days I guess.
Also this week the pool fixtures were put in. Those were things like the cleaning heads for the infloor cleaning system, the diddly bob where the water goes into and the whata ya ma callit spa jets. Yes I’ve learned many many pool and construction terms during this project.
So when can we swim in the damn thing you may ask (and yes I know some of you have).
Monday morning is our most important inspection yet. It’s our pre-plaster inspection which is a biggie and the final gateway to the big splash. So wish us luck and send us good thoughts.
Assuming Monday goes well then we are scheduled for plaster Thursday and Friday. This is it once the plaster is in the pool gets filled (about #$@$@ time ;).
After that the pool cleaning company comes out and starts to work the chemical magic and the pool company comes back to show us how to work all the equipment.
That’s it! I say with complete caution and a little queesy feeling.
So I think right now the chances of my nephew Kevin being the first to swim in the pool when he arrives on the 3rd are 50/50 but hey I’ve had worse odds in Atlantic City, Vegas, Foxwoods and River Rock so who’s to know.
Meanwhile the only thing that is really giving us agita right now is the darn landscaping. We can’t get our landscape designer to give us our final quotes and tell us when the landscape crew are coming out to put in the irrigation system. I’m so pissed I’m heading over to our local nursery today to ask for recommendations of irrigation and lighting crews.
So my dear brother Francis, you will be able to swim when you arrive, there will not be debris everywhere but you may need to visualize a few plants ;).
So all in all, we are seeing progress as slow as it is, we are enduring another heat wave without swimming but we know the payoff in the end will be worth it.
Splash count soon!!!
