Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Is that a pool cabana?

Another update to keep our demanding fans happy! Here's what we accomplished today. We set all four walls of the pool house on the slab. We still need to finish sheeting and placing rafters, but this is a pretty good start. Since we were waiting on the pool contractors to finish up the concrete we had pre-built the walls of the pool house. So, with the help of a dolly, Kenny and I set the back and left (west) walls and anchored them to the slab. Then with some help from neighbors we were able to set the right (east) and front walls. The kids helped to anchor those, and with all bracing still in place, well pick up where we left off in the am. On tap for tomorrow is to finish sheeting and top plates, then the rafters. Hopefully we'll be to a wrapping/felting stage soon, which means that the electrical panel in the pool house comes next.






Over the weekend, Kenny and I trenched and ran underground conduit and wire to the pool house and underwater light. Temps were above 90 and humidity was off the charts, but we got it done. Now we need to place the panel and get it wired up and rough inspected. Temps this week are supposed to be lower with "normal" humidity, so we should make some progress.
Pool guys are supposed to be finishing the bottom of the pool with vermiculite and sand, and then installing the liner. More pics to follow!




Friday, June 26, 2009

Electrical Work

Over 90-degrees in Cincinnati again today, but we spent the day digging trenches for the pool electric. We'll be starting the Pool House on Monday or Tuesday next week. The pool company is supposed to be coming to work on the pool bottom and the liner either tomorrow, Saturday, or Monday.




We had to trench from the house out to the pump and then all the way around the back of the pool to the opposite end where the light under the diving board will be. That's about 200 feet of trench for those of you who are counting . . .





Thursday, June 25, 2009

Concrete pour pictures

With temps over 90-degrees today, pouring and finishing the concrete deck got interesting. . .


Cantilever edge below:










Green Facts: High embodied-energy portland cement product was replaced with recycled fly ash in this concrete mixture. This mixture contained approximately 35% fly ash.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Pool Progress

Backfill complete - waiting for bonding inspection and concrete deck.










Monday, June 8, 2009

Now we're talkin'!

7:30am: Anchor Pools arrives on-site.
The clearing begins.
Mike finds a souvenir for his son.


Clearing complete and layout begins.



Digging the hole. (Kids are excited).