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The job is over 99% done – just a few minor things to keep an eye on.

The day after the Greener Pastures post, around 20% of the sod that was put down began to die.  The dead sod was replaced the following week & the remaining sod put down.

For those of you who may be interested, our general contractor was Stoneforms, Inc.  If you decide to contact them, please feel free to leave your thoughts about how this property turned out.

Lawn heading down towards backyard with flagpole installed

Front side lawn looking towards gate

Side of house heading towards gate. Taken 8/8/2019

Side of house heading towards gate. Taken 8/8/2019

Left side of the yard

Left side of the yard

Lawn looking towards the left from above

Left side of the yard

Left side of backyard, just to the left of the patio

Pool, patio & back right side of the lawn

Pool, patio in the back of pool, lawn in the back right side

Pool, patio, patio furniture & back of yard

Pool & portions of the deck & the back right side of the yard

Pool lit up Royal Blue

Close-up to pool lit-up Royal Blue

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Thank you for your interest in the project – even though it is completed, pictures will be posted occasionally to show how it is holding up.

The lawn is done in the backyard!  The side of the house where the access road was is still in the process of receiving its lawn.

Greener pastures ahead!  Do you think it’ll stay this nice? 🙂

Access road remnants & beginning of lawn that leads into backyard

Close-up of access road remnants & beginning of lawn

Sod application in progress

Back left corner from above

View thru top of fence in front right corner

Back right side of lawn

Shot of yard from above front right fence

Left side of yard from above

Left corner of yard to beginning of pool – from above

Left side of yard from above

Pool & area from edge of patio to around 1/2 way of pool from above

Ariel shot of pool deck, most of pool & lawn in back of pool

Pool & surrounding lawn from above

Today, several flags were put in the yard.  Irrigation will be put in prior to the lawn & although I’m not sure what the two different flag colors signify, I’m sure it has something to do with the irrigation.

Many of the flags are white & blend in with the fence.

Left side of yard towards center

Towards the right side of the pool

Center of back portion of fence

Left center of yard

Fence along the left side of yard

Gate to pool & A/C equipment

Right center of yard

Overview from deck to equipment

Work continues on the fence.  Much to my surprise, most of the fence was finished today!

Left part of backyard

Gate exiting backyard

Beginning of pool deck towards pool from above

Pool deck

Stones under fence where it doesn’t make sense to put grass

Pool deck & left of yard

Work continues on the fence

Left portion of backyard

Left of the pool deck from above

Right side of the pool from above

Gate entering backyard

Pool deck & pool. Railing partially installed

Pool

In back of pool

Fence along left portion of backyard (furthest from pool)

The fence was started today.  These are pictures taken on the afternoon of July 8, 2019.

Is there finally light at the end of the tunnel?

Starting to go around right side of wall

Fence on right side going away from wall

Fence on right side – deep end of pool

Fence in back of swim-out

Fence in back of swim-out

Fence with mini-fence around equipment being started

5 o’clock shadow

Approaching yard from right side

At the end of June, the pool was prepped for plastering & new tiles attached.

On July 1, 2019, the plastering was complete & the pool filled with water.

As part of the curing of the plaster, the pool needs to be brushed daily (or 2x/day) for the next 2 weeks.  Even though the pool appears to be very clean, there presently isn’t any chlorine in it.

We were hoping that the pool would have been ready for the Fourth of July – alas, the Fourth has come & gone.  With any luck, it will be ready soon.

Attached are pictures showing the whole yard & the pool from July 4.

Pool being tiled

Completed tile

Completed tile

Completed tile around skimmer

Access road to backyard

Entering backyard

Backyard

Backyard

Backyard

Back of wall looking away from pool

Corner of wall in back of pool

Back of wall

Pool

Pool

Deck & pool

Pool & deck from above

Pool & deck from above

So we decided to go ahead with the pool & deck/patio renovation.  This began around the beginning of May 2019.

The process draining the pool, removing the existing coping & deck/patio, and plastering the pool.  We also needed to have the surface of the pool water blasted because the pool is Gunite & was painted several years ago.

Unfortunately, the company that did the water blasting didn’t cover the heads of the caretaker system & destroyed them.  And the pool then failed a pressure test (the pipes were all original).  So we had the caretakers removed & put in a more conventional system.

new deck/patio being placed

New drain for area outside of pool & gutters

Deck & coping removed

Caretakers patched. New coping

Left side of the pool without decking or coking

Old pipes for caretaker system

New pipes & motor for return system (filter the same)

Caretakers patched

Old pipes for caretaker system

Deck & coping removed

Around the beginning of 2019, the wall construction was finished.  The lawn & fence were scheduled to go up in the Spring.

We were planning on redoing our patio & our pool in a few years – after talking with the contractors, because all the equipment was already there, the lawn torn up, access road, and lack of fence, it made sense to look into redoing our pool patio/deck, coping & the pool itself.

Pool deck

Back corner of the pool deck that had been repaired around a decade earlier after collapsing because of erosion

View of the yard from the back corner to the other back corner. Essentially all gained land

View of the finished wall from the street (zoomed-in)

Yard in back of the pool. The fence had previously been a few feet from the back of the patio/deck

Soil at the back of the wall

Repaired section of pool patio/deck that had collapsed around a decade earlier because of the erosion

The wall construction continued throughout November, 2018 & officially ended around the first of the year.

The wall is a two-tiered wall.

View of the finished wall from the street (zoomed-in)

View of the wall from the street (zoomed-in)

Wall from the bottom

Corner of the wall from above

Wall from the bottom

See the steepness

Corner of the wall from above

View of the wall from the street (zoomed-in)

Wall from the bottom

View of the wall from the street (zoomed-in)

Wall from the bottom

In November 2018, the wall construction began.  Attached are some images hi-lighting the construction.  A benefit of doing this project is we are gaining several feet to our usable yard.

Old fill being removed.

Wall beginning to be built

Corner

Old fill in back of fence dug up

Old fill removed & wall starting to be erected

Old fill in back of fence dug up

Gravel laid inside of where base of new wall will be built

Tarp protecting old fill during excavation

View from where tree once was

Wall beginning to take shape

Base of where wall will go