The Cave-In Solution

Kraft paper? At least, from far away it looks like kraft paper. When they drop a roll of it onto the rebar floor with a resounding CLANG!!!, it certainly doesn't sound like kraft paper. Upon closer inspection, it seems to be some sort of brown waxy paper woven with nylon threads so that it won't tear, and then strengthened and stiffened with a wire grid (that's the pattern you can see in it). The whole deep end is lined with this stuff to hold the shotcrete that is scheduled for Tuesday. If you look carefully in the picture above, you can see the downspout on the corner of our house, in the upper right corner of the photo. And you can imagine that I'm standing right against the screen on the lanai to take the picture. That's how close the cave in got to our foundation!

But there's still quite a bit of rebar to complete throughout the pool and lots of PVC for the spa. The supervisor and I discuss the placement of the jets for the spa, and it turns out that there is not a lot of wiggle room. Even planning to drop the seats to 21" (standard is 18" deep), with a 6" waterline tile at the top and about the same at the bottom to accommodate the buttocks, there's only about 9" of height adjustment for the jets. So I ask him just to place them at random heights. Folks can move from seat to seat to find the jet that hits them at just the right spot on their backs. So if you're wondering why they don't appear level in the picture, it's because they're not.