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| Soooooo close to being finished... |
We had decided that we would sub out the liner-install and finishing hook-ups to actual pool builders who know how to deal with the finicky stuff so we could finish before winter! Liners are not easy feats and it just made sense to not wreck all of our hard prep-work with a huge, accidental wrinkle in the liner because I can't exactly move at lightning speed to help these days. It looked and felt like we were going to get thunder'n'lightninged out but the weather held just long enough for us... so grateful! The pool gang got to work spreading the sand bottom as soon as they arrived and before long our new pool was actually beginning to look like a POOL!!
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| The bottom of the pool gettin' down with the sand... |
Play didn't waste ANY time AT ALL getting his BOSSINESS on.....
Day, however, chose to spend his usual 'supervising time' playing his most favourite fun game with Mama.....
After the sand had been scattered, one of the guys started levelling it off while the other two started taping closed all the open joints before moving on to the following steps. These dudes have pool set-up down to a science!
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| Rakin'n'tapin'... |
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| Next up was the bottom coping... |
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| Followed by a second sand levelling! |
Time to lay down the liner pad! Because our pool is a 18' x 34' in a world of 18' x 33' pools, we had to order an 18' x 41' pad which the guys cut-to-fit. But it all worked out fine and before long the pad was set and taped into place where it would fulfil it's grand purpose of protecting the liner.
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| It's liner pad tiiiiiiiiiime!!! |
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| Once the fit was good it was time to fold back half and do the final hand-trowelling and levelling for the sand bottom of awesome! |
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| The first half was immediately followed by the second half. |
WooHooooooo... LINER TIME!!!!!
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| Lining up the liner... such a beautiful sight! |
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| All a wrinkled liner needs is some patience along with the help of this awesome lil' vacuum unit... |
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| ...and the wrinkles shall BE GONE!!! |
The water tanker arrived right on time... clearly my mother wasn't driving or we'd still be waiting! - Love you, Mama!!!
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| Water haul #1... |
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| Thanks for joining the party Water Hauler Extraordinaire... let'er flow! |
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| One last wrinkle-removing check! |
It was figured that we would needs four trucks of water but since the water dude was only able to bring two loads the one day (he had a wedding he had to get to) and was going to bring the rest the following day... we decided it couldn't hurt to help with our own garden hose. We figured if we left the pool filling overnight we might even be able to get away with three water loads.
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| First tanker emptied and our own little hose workin' hard... this hose can run with the big guys!! |
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| INCOMMMMIIIINGGGGGG... for water haul #2!! |
Our pool is finally full and I am so happy with the pretty new liner we almost didn't get... This liner wasn't available for the oval pools but because we ordered the pool before winter which gave the supplier plenty of time, they special made us one!
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| We let the hose run through the night and decided just to cancel the last two loads of water since there were only about six more inches to fill... By early afternoon, twenty-four hours for our hard-working little hose had filled the pool!!! |
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| ...and THE HEAT IS ON..... sung as only Glenn Frey could sing it! |
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| A very welcome sight to see the filtering system working away, rippling the water happily in it's gentle current! We should be able to swim by morning... Once the stairs are in we'll be GOLDEN! |
What a project THIS has been, but the rest of the summer and deep into the fall we will be reaping full swimming benefits!
Next, we will need to start on landscaping but for now, we're going to just swim and enjoy a little... FINALLY! Oh, my happily grateful and soon-to-be-waterlogged heart!
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