1. No financial pull on this one. Shotcrete sub had been paid in full for months.

2. The piece of rebar is from the form they put around the edge of the pool when they shot it. AND .... they cut the caps off the pipes! This is the thing that is just killing me. Why would they have done that? I tried calling them just to get an answer to that, and they couldn't give me an answer. All the pics I seen from other pools on the web have the pipes capped and under pressure right up until the interior is put in. Only thing I can think of is that they were trying to cover their mistake and hope the owner/builder wouldn't know.

I definately can't fix this myself - the return pipe is up against the shotcrete wall on one side and has the electrical conduit on the other. I'll have my plumber come back in.

The thing is, after sitting and looking at it, which is easy to do because I am so sad about all of this that I DO just SIT and look at it ....= ( I do think the shotcrete guys banged it in there when putting in their forms, cause it is wedged in there good, however ... if someone wanted to get it out, like maybe a deck sub so the top couple of inches wouldn't be in the concrete and tried prying it back and forth - I can see how that would crack the pipe. But had the pipes been under pressure, the water would have leaked and I'd have seen it - which leads me back to the shotcrete guys and *why* did they cut my caps off? If I could get a good answer from them, I'd chalk it up to live and learn and let it go ... which I guess it sounds like I'll end up doing.

Waaaaahhhh!