Shasta Decking - Day 1

Well, it's the first day of the patio being Shasta decked. The guys were here bright and early, around 7:30, and started working. They started the day by sweeping and power washing all the patio and deck areas that they were going to be working on.

About an hour in, the crew from yesterday came back to finish the cycolic steps. After talking to the deck crew for about 15 minutes they asked me if it was ok if they came back to finish first thing Monday morning. Apparently there was a 'language barrier' between the two crews that neither could overcome. hehe. :) I told him that wouldn't be a problem, figuring there was enough people in the backyard with just the deck crew.

Also later yesterday two more crews showed up.

The tile guy showed up and fixed the tile above the autofill line (which looks great by the way), but didn't fix the top of the skimmer inlet.

The pool pump crew showed up and changed around the pvc pipe between the pump and filter so that we could now open the pump to clean the skimmer bucket, but forgot to leave a backwash valve in their new piping. Also, they didn't hook the pump back up to electricity, although I'm not sure if they were supposed to do that, or someone else is coming to do it.

The front of the pool deck drying after being power washed.


A shot out the back security door.


Yet another shot out the security door.


One of the workers cleaning the edging between two pieces of the pool deck.


Paper being put around the edge of the pool to protect the new waterline tile.


Plastic in preparation for protecting the block fence.


The set up supplies that are going to be used for the decking project.


Another shot of the pool with the tile being protected.


The foundation layer of the Shasta deck project.


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DOH! The pool pump isn't hooked up to electricity yet. Gonna be hard to start it when the time comes. As you can see, the new PVC line between the pump and filter doesn't have a backwash valve in it.


Overview photo of the whole pool with the foundation layer on it.


The next batch of pictures are junk left around by the workers for the 3 days that they'll be here.











Garbage still left from the forming of the deck pads.