Spa Tiling, Curbs & Footers............ uh oh

The tile guy, Rick, is still work methodically on the tiling.  He'd completed the mudwork on the spa, with just the tiling to go.

Here are the before and after pictures.

Pretty nice, huh?

What you can't see is that he ran out of tiles.
He's just three tiles short on the inside wall on the left, where you can't see in the photo.

A day or two later, when we were fishing debris out of the bottom of the pool, we found two whole tiles - still not enough to finish.

Meanwhile, the masonry subcontractors are forming the curbs and footers for the paver decking.  These guys are great, and one of the reasons we chose this pool builder, because the mason was the same guy who did all the concrete work for the house remodel a couple of years ago.

Unfortunately, they quickly found a problem near the equipment corner of the pool.  The plumbing wasn't deep enough. 

The curb needs to go 8" below the top of the frame.  The staked out horizontal section on the upper right side of the picture is at the correct height.  They can't frame this side until the pool plumbing is fixed.  And that also means that our drainage and sprinkler plumbing will need to be changed.  UGH!!!!  DH is pretty mad.

I will refrain from the details here because I don't want a lawsuit or anything, but the plumbing subcontractors are in pretty big trouble with us and the pool builder.






Anyway, the footers for the main steps look awesome and I'm starting to see how the deck is going to look.
Looks like the cistern is shipping in any day now and we're less than a week away from spring break with a plumbing mess, concrete on hold, and one giant hole to dig.