Additional Pool Cover Notes
A super cool thing Agent Smith created for the pool is documented in the image below. That black dot in the middle of the cover…
Tag: Pool
Leakage
The pool resurfacing project was completed in 2017. In winter 2018, we started to notice that water was leaving the pool at a faster rate…
The Clouds and the Pool (video)
Back in the spring of 2017, we resurfaced the pool (you can read the first post in that saga here). Well, one of the video…
View from the Studio Roof
I’m working in a rather haphazard fashion when it comes to catching up on project posts, and as a result I have a lot of…
Finishing Pool Touches
Because of delays we had to wait a day for water trucks to fill the pool. We decided at the start of the project to not…
Pool Revamp: New Finish
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…
Pool Revamp: Plumbing and Prep
Once the pool surface was stripped, Adams began the prep work. To bring the pool up to code, we had to have the bottom drain split…
Pool Revamp: Drain and Strip
In March we began work on the pool resurfacing/remodel project. We knew when we purchased the house that the plaster would soon need work, so…
Purgatory Contest: And the Winner Is…
After receiving a dozen or so submissions for the first-ever contest at Purgatory, we are pleased to announce that a winner has been determined! First…
Time Extended!
It seems stickers were not enough of an enticement; we’ve had just a smattering of entries for our first-ever contest. So we’re upping the stakes…
Another random product of happiness
In a previous post I mentioned we have speakers out by the pool. They are mounted under the eaves and came with the house, along with…
Water, Water Everywhere, Part 4: Pooling Resources
One of the things we’ve done a lot of maintenance on, and learned a lot about, is the pool at Purgatory. It was put in…
Pool Tile It!
When we moved in, six tiles on the pool balcony were loose and the previous owners had left them for us. With everything else going…
Drinking Hard
In light of the rant I just made, here’s a happy water moment to lighten the day.
Forgotten nugget of PO craptasm
I’ve been doing some cleanup, as we upload images for a post and then forget about them a lot of the time. I try to…
Another pool post
Installing the new pool lights revealed yet another issue left by the POs. When the pump and original solar were put in, the pump controller…
Pools, hot tubs, and other watery updates
I’ve been working on lining up contractors for a couple of projects and thus have no big news to share. Instead I have a few random…
A little history lesson
WARNING: this is a really, really long post. As part of the purchase of Purgatory, we got any drawings/plans pertaining to the house. Right after taking possession,…
And we swam and swam all over the dam
As mentioned a few posts back, we had to have the flat roofs redone. When the guys from Armstrong demolished the roof above the studio,…
Work Continues
It’s been a very busy week. On Saturday, Agent Smith took a load of stuff down and met with the Wall Guy again to talk scope…