Once all the holes were sealed and the plumbing sorted, we had to wait to finish the resurfacing project, as the company that manufactures the coping we had ordered was behind schedule. The wait wasn’t terribly long, and another crew from Adams arrived to do the work the second week of May. Their arrival was a bit delayed, as the pickup truck was fully loaded with coping, tiles, mortar mix, rebar and tools. Said truck was also a front-wheel drive automatic and was so heavy that the crew couldn’t get it up the last hill to our driveway. They ended up putting the truck in reverse and backing up hill. Yet another crazy story about living halfway up a mountain.
Here are pics of the coping and water line tile install, which took several days.
In addition to the NPT waterline tile which matches the balcony tile we had done last year, the crew also did three lines across the pool floor. I normally swim laps between the southwest and northeast corners, and since moving in I’d been dropping a weighted rope line into the pool each time I wanted to work out. The new tiles not only look awesome but mean far less effort is now involved when swimming laps.
After the tile and coping were in place they had to cure, and then a crew of just one person came out to apply the mastic between the concrete patio and the coping.
The following week, the surface crew arrived and laid down the new finish in a shockingly short amount of time. The guy who did the last bit of the finish was tossed down balls of the mixture, which he then smoothed into place. Once he was done, he slipped off his gunite spike shoes and walked up the tile line and out of the pool.
Then all that was left to do was fill it up.
