Shasta management shows up...

This morning was a very interesting morning. Roger (my Shasta supervisor) had told me the form and pour crew would be here today to fix the form and to actually pour in the same day.

Low and behold, I was awaken to the sounds of sledgehammers pounding cement at about 6:30. I threw on a shirt and went out back to see how they were doing. Actually I got ticked off for a minute when I thought I saw one of the guys kicking at Buddy. Good thing I waited before pummeling him into a pile of ground beef, since he was just kicking the rubber ball that Buddy kept bringing and dropping at his feet. :)

I still feel bad about having them come back out and tearing out the deck pad that was screwed up. I really wish we could have come to some acceptable compromise, but no matter what we came up with it just looked bad. We are spending way too much to not have it look the way we wanted.

Anyway, they had the deck pad re-formed by about 7:30, and it looked nice.

At about 8:30 I looked outside and saw Roger and someone else in the pool talking to each other. So of course I went out to say 'Hi'.

The man introduced himself as Ken (at least I think that was his name), and he's the general manager of Shasta's remodel division. He apologized for all the problems that we've had and said that he was taking care of it. Him and Roger were walking around looking for other items that had been missed, and they came up with a few that I didn't even notice.

1. The auto-fill line was too close to the tile. It would weaken the tile so it needed to be modified.
2. The underneath of the skimmer inlet was not finished being tiled. It needed to be finished.
3. The pool pump hadn't been hooked up to electricity yet. Nobody would have noticed until they came to turn it on, and of course it wouldn't have worked. Not a good thing after shooting the pool with Pebble-tech.
4. The PVC line between the pool pump and filter were too close to the skimmer basket cap. It was extremely difficult to open the skimmer basket cap.

We also talked about the timeline of the pool. I expressed my frustration at waiting over 4 months just for a remodel to be completed. Ken was actually very understanding and nice about the whole situation and assured me that it wouldn't be happening any more. He said the pour should be completed later today, and he'd have some crews out to fix the little things they found. And by Wed or Thu the deck crew would be here to get the Shasta Deck underway.

YA FREAKIN' HOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Below are the photos from today's work:


The cement guys had to fix a section between our current patio and the raised portion that they installed. When removing the old raised portion, the jackhammer had broken off about 3 inches of the current patio, but when they poured the new raised section, they didn't bother to fix it. I kept meaning to let Roger know about it, but there were always so many other issues that I never remembered.


The following photos are the new deck pad that they poured. I'm much happier with this than the repair options we came up with.







Here are a bunch of photos of the finished waterline tile (except for underneath the skimmer inlet). Looks nice!