After five days of rain and two days of sun, the ground was dry enough today to move some dirt around and start grading the back yard. They did a bit of grading then the cement man came and we spray painted the lines where the cement decking will be poured. This has been a hard decision to make but after a lot of spray paint, drawings and brain storming we made our decision. Once we got the orange spray paint down, they hammered stakes into the ground to see how to move the dirt to build up that area. A berm is also going to be built to direct any future rain run-off away from the pool area so dirt has to be moved in order to build that up and make it work. We decided to not put a sidewalk to the pool from the patio under the deck because in the future we want to rebuild the deck and possibly have the steps coming down on the pool side of the deck instead of the side of the deck.
Today we also decided where to put the steps coming down from the driveway to the backyard. For county codes, our fence gate will have to be installed to swing open away from the pool so we have to build a landing at that point. There will be several stone steps but we decided against a cement sidewalk leading to the pool from the steps and are going to use stepping stones instead.
The fence will be put up on Thursday, Sept 4! We are excited about that!
The plaster color for the inside of the pool is and has been one of our biggest concerns on this project. The color of the water is a huge visual effect and we want it dark but not too dark. This is our next hurdle to jump!
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