Quote Originally Posted by jasontx View Post
I read your post in the other thread Beary -- sounds like we are experiencing the same storm system. I have drawings but keeping them handy to pull out and show people makes a lot of sense. As Hobert uses mostly their own people and doesn't subcontract very much of the work, you would hope that would help, but I'm not relying on it.
Yes, the problem for me was my pool builder was never around while I was trying to show where the workers were doing it wrong. I told him one day that I was tired of arguing for an hour to get small changes made. It was mostly the difference in languages that cause the problem. If I could just point to the drawing, then the workmen could see what I was talking about.

The other reason for a drawing is sometimes even the pool builder didn't understand why I wanted something, so he said he would do it, but ignore me thinking I wouldn't know the difference. We wanted fountains in our two tanning decks and I wanted the plumbing run where I could turn them up or down, or even off. Well the workers put all the fountains and returns all on the same pipe. I argued for an hour with the forman that I needed the fountains on a seperate pipe so I could control them seperately. There was an urgency because the crew was about to shoot the gunite. And once that is done, we would be stuck.

He put a seperate pipe on one fountain, but not the other. Not until my pool builder was showing my equipement was I able to turn valves on and off to show him the effect I wanted. His eyes said it all when I showed him why I wanted to turn off the one fountain and I couldn't. If I had a drawing made up at the time, there would have not been any arguing. Just do it.

I am very happy with my pool and I think our builder is one of best in the city. But I would have done it different next time. For one thing, I would build it in the winter where the crews aren't so pressed to jump on three jobs a day.

Another thing, check out who does the concrete decks.

Keep us up on the building, I know I whined a lot here, but it is actually very exciting.

Beary