Day 4...

The plaster company came back this morning and coated the inside of the pool and spa with some kind of very rough bonding material.  Then the contractor spent the day working on the slide infrastructure.  Starting to see a little plumbing appear too.  The play shelf area gets fuller and fuller of discarded materials every day!

Day 3..

Today the plaster company came out and sandblasted the entire inside of the pool and spa, removed all the tile and removed the exit steps in the deep end.  The contractor will be back tomorrow!

Day 2..

Making progress:

This is a shot of the bench/step deep end exit.

Shot of the spa, one side cut down, framework for slide.

Waterfall on side of pool, framed and chicken wired.

A shot of what will be the wet deck (play shelf).  The finished deck will be the size of the orange outline.  This is all the concrete they've been busting up, it will be used as filler.

Another shot of the soon to be wet deck.

Can't wait to see what tomorrow brings.  The plaster guys should be here to sandblast all the existing plaster off the inside of the pool and spa.

Day 1..

They came out yesterday and dropped a pump into the pool to drain it overnight.  This morning the contractor showed up and went to work.  Can't believe how much they did in one day!

Pool Renovation..

After 26 years we are having a major renovation done to our pool.  We will be updating the blog daily with pictures for the next month while the work is in progress.  Tonight is demoliton eve, so here is the before picture..

Ouch!

We made an unexpected visit to Quick Care about a month ago.  Ed was helping Steve with a woodworking project in our driveway/garage.  Ed was using his planer to shave down some pieces of wood, and because they were in a hurry, safety procedures were sort of thrown to the wind.  Instead of using a push piece of wood to move the wood through the planer, Ed was using his hand.  The planer hit a knot in a piece of wood, throwing the wood and shoving Ed's hand down into the blade.  He chopped up 3 fingers on his left hand pretty badly.  There was blood everywhere!  Fortunately he only lost a few chunks of flesh and some nails rather than fingers!!  On our way home we stopped and got him a treat; ice cream and pain meds!  He is healing up well, only wearing bandaids for protection now.

Not Quite Done, But Useable!

The beds are ALMOST done, just a few more finishing details needed, and none too soon!  Most of our guests arrived yesterday and the cousins were so excited to have a sleepover on the new beds!  So far they have been a big hit.