Gunite in 100+

[mmcguire]

I am scheduled to have gunite on Friday and it will be 103 degrees. Should I re-schedule or will watering it down a lot be enough?

[bradjo]

Oh I have experience with gunite in 100+ weather and almost no humidity. We shot in the Mojave Desert. I set up a sprinkler and left it being watered lightly for hours at a time for the first week. After that we watered it morning and night and occasionally at lunch if it was screaming hot and when wasn't it screaming hot here? Finally we watered it daily in the afternoon/evening.

FWIW we had no cracking and our inspectors said it was one of the nicest gunite jobs he'd ever seen. It really was a good job, we were only 1/8" out over the entire pool!
Jo

[Poolboyz]

I just had my pool shotcreted and it was 110 degrees in Arizona...I watered it every 2 hours during the day....I still have some small shrinkage cracks, but they say it does not cause a structural problem.

[mmcguire]

I will talk with my gunite guys but would it be a bad idea to set up a sprinkler to water the gunite constantly for the first few days? Maybe drop a sump pump in the deep.

[PoolNewbie2006]

When they poured gunite in my pool, I asked the builder about water pooling at the bottom from all the watering. I was told that it is okay and in fact good for the water to pool at the bottom. Sure enough, it pooled about 1.5 feet deep at the end of the 10 days. It wasn't until about 1.5 months later, when they completed all the stone/concrete work, that they drained the water.

[Simmons99]

It rains here in FL everyday in the summer - so we were not even instructed to water it. They shot the pool while we were on vacation before July 4th. When we got back we had about 2 feet of water in the botton and it stayed there until the tile guys pumped it out ..... then we got a huge thunderstorm and we have about 2 feet of water in there again.