TCB,
Do you mean your experiences with your pool build, or your design experiences???
We would love to hear about the good and bad with your pool build..
If this is about your design work... Please keep in mind that nothing 'sales' related can be posted here.
Thanks,
Jim R.
Both Jim! I would say the "bad" things during my build were some lack of communication and missed items. The missed item was a microbrite light in our tanning ledge. The niche was there but no light. Easy fix for them to come out and do. Our other lights are intellibrite, so the shades of some colors are different, but nothing super noticeable. I wish I had known how to water the gunite properly; they told us to do it, but there were no instructions for how long each time. So, during the curing phase, it was like a ghost town of communication.
I was not trying to come off as sales on my intro, but I work for a builder now that does things differently. Apologies if I came off as "that guy" vibes. Some examples make total sense now looking back, but why was I the client watering my gunite? I paid a lot of money to have the work done, and they should do 100% of it. Not to mention, it's a construction zone, and I'm not a construction worker. I found out watering gunite should be about 45 minutes twice a day, and I was doing about 15 mins twice a day, so now I'm worried about my shell. Our company waters the shell for the clients with a soaker hose on a timer. I also learned DFW, Texas, has some of the worst ground material for pools. It's either heavy clay or rock. Ours was clay, and I wish I had known about soil injections to help protect my pool and deck from shifting cause in Texas, it's not if my ground will move; it's when is my ground going to move. As a salesman, part of our process is we go to the pre-construction meeting with clients and the superintendent to have a warm transfer to the next phase. The level of communication and transparency is/was eye-opening. Separate professionally drafted plans for every aspect, plumbing, electric, deck, etc etc. Our company has non-negotiables that we put on every job. Soil injections are one but a major one that's simple is we put a dumpster and port a potty on every job. I never thought about that, but now that I do, I know I can't hold it for 8+ hours a day, so imagine where they went.
Hope this helps and still not coming off as "that guy".
