Digging started yesterday and the walls went in today. These guys are wasting no time.
What it looked like before they started digging:
Two guys and two pieces of equipment:
Almost all of the walls are up. Sorry for the through-the-window photo but they were starting to cover the hole (rain is coming) and I had to snap the photo from where I was sitting:
Update 5/30/06…we had a concrete delivery for the back-fill process. The level of trust between the workers is pretty awesome to watch. The young guy holds a 2X4 up against the wall while the owner places the bucket on the 2X4 and then pulls the wall in line. The young guy’s hands are right there where the bucket comes in to put some serious pressure on the wall segments.
Sorry this picture is so crappy, I’d feel like an idiot taking pictures from outside so I take them from the second story and try to get the whole pool in the shot.
Whoohoo! They left the pool uncovered.
That’s a really nice size pool. It’s hard to tell from the pictures, but it kind of looks like the same depth all the way across. You guys are going to love it!
The pictures aren’t great–that’s true. They keep covering the hole up with tarps so we can’t take pictures after they knock off work. There’s now a deep end. We went with a gradual slope to 6 feet.
That’s how deep our deep end is too. No diving board, but it heats up quickly!
Lookin’ good!