First spillover

Yesterday the pump was turned on to start water filtering. This includes a wonderful spillover of water coming from Jaccuzi down into the pool. The acidifcation process that took place earlier made the pool dark blue, and the water looks gorgeous. The pool manager already started to alcaline the water, and mentioned that we should be able to have our first swim this weekend. So excited!

Pool and Jacuzzi are filled with water. Concrete curing process is taking place

Yesterday, July 13th, Mike, the pool manager, came to put acid into the water. He showed to us how to brush the pool 3 times a day for 2 weeks from now on. Philippe is doing this happily, though hardly staying away from jumping into the water to swim.
Next step: arbor to be built starting from Friday. After that we will move to concrete sealing and landscaping.
We have already ordered a barbecue machine from Internet. Waiting for the shipment.

The pool is full of water!

It took 30 hours to fill the pool with water. Next hour and a half - jacuzzi time. After that we will start the acidification process to reveal the quartz colors.

The pool is filling with water!

And finally: the pool has been plastered and is now filling with water! The plaster crew arrived around 11am and worked for 4 hours. It was an interesting process of shooting blew "cement" and leveling it while walking in special boots. Now our pool looks very blue. This, however, will change through the acid process that will take place once the pool is filled in. Apparently the blue mass already contains the mosaic of navy and white sparkles which will be revealed in several days.
Today Rocco, the contractor building the arbor, also came and took measurements. We should have the arbor built over the weekend.

Mike, the pool manager, came to check the project condition. We agreed that the pavers which got misplaced by the bobcat would be fixed up this or next week. We did not even need to worry about that since this item was included into the contract.
So the bottom line is: we will need to work on the water condition for maximum of 2 weeks, and then - swimming time!!! :)

Ready for the last phase

On June 30th the baby fence was re-installed. This time it was the right fence, but a couple of noticeable spots on the concrete got damaged. Oh well... We did talk about this to the fence company owner and she said they were willing to come and fix. 

The pre-plaster inspection took place the day after. When the inspector came into the backyard, he was preoccupied checking the alarms, because apparently he did not notice our fence. We were pleased by the fact that the fence does not stand out from the whole picture that much.

During the past week our jacuzzi walls were also fixed up by the pool company. Looks like everything is ready for the plaster scheduled for July 11th.