Early this morning the pool plaster company showed up and started mixing up the plaster and quartz for the interior of the pool. We chose plaster and quartz because of the smoothness of its finish. They spray the plaster onto the walls of the pool with a hose that is attached to a macine on a truck. The machine has two men adding water and plaster into a mixer that is connected to the hose. The actual spraying doesn't take long at all . The most time consuming part of this job is how they continually smooth it with trowels, sponges and all kinds of tools. It goes from looking very rough to perfectly smooth. The plaster was mixed with gray powder and then salt and pepper quartz flakes were added. When we will the pool the water is naturally blue so the end result is a dark blue pool which is what we have been striving for all along. There are hundreds of combinations we could have chosen but we knew what we wanted all along as far as color. Communicating that to the plaster company is difficult because we don't know what combinations create what color so we had to do a lot of running around to look at other pools. We met some nice people who allowed us to scrutinize their pool colors!
A little later this morning the fence company showed up to start installing the fencing. They were here a few days ago putting the black chain link fence in the back of the yard where the school's fence leaves a big opening. We closed this off because codes mandates that the whole area be fenced when you have a pool. This is also good to keep people from occasionally cutting through our back yard during school events. However, the fence going up today is the pretty black steel fence. We got the "puppy pickets" which are closer together since Bruiser is so little that he could possibly escape through the regular size pickets. It will also help keep other critters out of the yard. I think we have had deer nibbling on some of our shrubs in the past and I have heard coyotes in the middle of the night.
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