The Swimming Pool and Rock

When we bought the house, we planned on putting a pool in the backyard.  With the sale of our NSL house (oh, yes it sold in May) this is coming to be a reality.

We started in December talking to Jeff Norton of Sunset Pools and Landscape and finally in March it began to be a reality.  Then, we decided to put in a large faux rock feature to compliment it and that took the month of April to build.  Here it is now the end of May and we are still a week or so away.

Here's some pictures of the progress and different stages of development.

The first phase was marking the ground.  Theron's dad used to tell his mother that he was going to mark a piece of ground for the house and make her live there for a month; it's easier to move the walls that way.

 Phase 2 - They dig the hole and start putting in pipe.  The interesting thing was the way they bent the pipe - they blow torch heated the PVC and made it like a noodle.

 Phase 3 was the gunnite.  They spray this in from a very big hose and then trowel it down and shape it.  The stairs are solid gunnite and shaped that way.

 Phase 4 is the faux rock feature.  Casey Stucki and Zack Adair built this.  Casey owns CS Stonescape and wow are we impressed with the finished product.  Zack lives in our ward and Casey made him the designer and the supervisor for this project.  Great job.

You start with some rebar, weld it together and cover it in mesh.

 Then they blow on a brown coat (grey cement) and then a red coat and use chisels, water and air to refine the art work of stone.  This is Zack showing off some finished product.  Casey is below standing by my petroglyphs.

Phase 5 will be the next post.  The cement decking, shade structure, landscaping and plastering the pool.