Plumbing - Before Spring Break

Note: The next few blog postings have been back-dated to the approximate date of the featured construction.  They were written about a month later, so accuracy and detail are approximate.

It's been a very long time since I was able to update this blog, but I'll try to capture the major events in the next few days to get caught up.  Since my last posting, we've had a few...ummm....issues.  I'll spare some of the details, but keep in mind that everything revolves around Spring Break, which was the last week of March, so the missing blogs fit into two phases: before and after.  Obviously, we spent the week beforehand getting ready to go, since we would be out of reach on the sailboat for a week, and then had clean-up upon our return.

It was great to see the plumbing go in.  I thought it would take forever, but they got it done in about two days.  Plumbing worries me because people with old pools are always having leaks and it's almost never the actual shell - it's the plumbing or where the plumbing and the shell meet, in places such as skimmers.  And we have two skimmers.

Also, I thought the plumbing would be a lot deeper.  I need to figure that this will be buried, and then sand fill for the paver base will be right up to the top edge, because the coping will raise the deck another two inches or so above that current top edge.

I still haven't learned enough about the pool to understand exactly how the water flow enters and exits the pool.  I'm pretty sure that the line shown above on the diagonal (above the skimmer line) is going to be where we hook up the vacuum cleaner (Hayward Navigator) because it's the most middle point of the entire pool.

The spa itself has an incredible number of plumbing lines.

There are six jets and in the picture you can see three of the air vents on the top edge of the spa that control the amount of air jetting out - more air, cooler water, less air, hotter water.

There's no plumbing past the spa on this side - the pool beam wall to the right out of the picture, paralleling the seawall that I'm probably standing on to take this picture.

Keep in mind that there is planned to be three feet of paver deck on this side of the pool towards the fence, and the three feet starts at the waterline.

All the plumbing leads here by the house, where it's under about 40-50psi pressure.  You can see the pressure gage at the bottom left corner of the picture.  The equipment will be located next to the wall on the left.

Okay, so now that the pool plumbing is all in, we can move in to get the cistern drains hooked up and the main sprinkler lines for the backyard all arranged.  I should mention that a couple of the neighbors made comments to us about the plumbing sub-contractors, but that'll come up in another blog posting.