I woke up this morning at 4:50am, which I never do, excited to get the day going. The best shade we have is in the morning and it was a cool 65 degrees when I woke up. I piddled around for a while, set some lines, started digging a relief trench for an existing water line, drank a pot of coffee, went for a run (ran to Bojangles), anyone who thinks Popeyes has the best chicken sandwich is crazy. Bojangles has the best Cajun Filet, always add an egg, best biscuit money can buy.
Came home piddle around some more, dug deeper trenches for braces and finally I had enough, I had to go wake the girls up to come help me. kidding aside they were probably all wore out from the day before, this is not easy work.
Today was all about the walls and getting the best level / plumb we could. We spent several hours adjusting walls, measuring for square, and repeating until we are about 1/2" from perfect. I think on a 24' pool a little give will be ok, gotta keep moving forward.
Once we decided that we were ok with the location, level and rough plumb, we drove rebar into all panels (this will help prevent the panels from shifting when we pour the concrete collar.) And after that, each joint has a brace with a 2.5' long anchor spear thing that had to be driven into the shelf. This was beyond difficult!!! I only had a 4lb sledge that Grant Green left at my house about a decade ago (law indicates it is now my property), a full size sledge would not fit in the overdig. Megan and I hammered for a good 1.5-2 hours getting them all down to where they could be secured by a drilled hole then screwed. Megan and I went back and forth the whole time swinging at these things, the only difference is I dry heaved after my turn, and she laughed at me after her turn! She has this magical power of not overheating after 10 seconds, sweating too much, and not throw up when swinging a sledge hammer. whatever....
Next was time to install the coping, since we decided we want a concrete finished coping, we installed cantilever style coping. It is very low profile and you will never see it once the contrete is poured and liner is in. It was pretty straight forward measuring lengths, using a hack saw to cut through the aluminum extrusion and using self tapping tek screws to keep in place.
Wish I had more pics but I seem to be having a formatting problem with my phone taking HEIC photos and not JPEGS I will work on that later and update pics tomorrow.
Next we focus on main drain installation, framing out the equipment pad, and prepping to pour to collar hopefully Saturday morning!
Stay tuned!
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