We were so busy with the pool fun, that I did not have time to post any more comments. It must be a good sign? Well, indeed it is. The pool was ready for swimming in July 25th. Right after we started to work on planting our backyard. It took some time for the landscape crew to prepare the soil. Then we went to the nursery and picked some plants. By early September everything was planted beautifully and we started to have pool parties.
The whole project would not be real, however, if there were not at least one "but". Our "but" is that even though everything seems to be great, our final permit has not been received. Why? Apparently there was a new regulation introduced by our city that the pool builder needs to provide a receipt to the city proving that all the soil was dumped into a special designated place. If there is no such receipt, then the city will issue a $1000 fine to the company. I suppose nobody wants to lose this money, and so our pool builder seems to be stalling time and dragging things. Will they find a way out? I don't know, but our patience is coming to an end, and at some point we will need to contact the city with a request to investigate what is going on... I still hope to avoid this, because the pool company guys were all great to work with.
I will take pictures of the end result and post them some time soon to put a period at the end of the story.
