The last two weeks have been spent pretty much tearing out concrete. The company did a really piss-poor job. It was supposed to take them 2.5 days and it took almost ten, yes 10 days. Now, yes the concrete was thicker than they planned, but I don’t by that excuse. They should have brought out more crew to get it done on time.
After they were done, we dug trenches. These trenches will hold the water, electrical, gas and my network conduit. It will be nice to have all this under ground.
We also upgraded all the plumbing to bigger pipes. One of the problems with the old system is the pipes were too small, so the volume of water was not large enough to produce the bubbles for the spa.
We installed a new suction line so that the skimmer and suction are separate. The should help prevent the pump from ever running dry. In addition, we added a new check valve to the solar return. This helps eliminate a dangerous valve that was in the system that could be closed and build up pressure. We removed this and replaced it with a check valve.
All of the equipment was moved down about five feet. so that it is away from the doorways. This will allow us to put our trash containers outside the doors and give us more room for the walkway.
At the end of this week, they finally filled in all the trenches. Just in time too, as it started to rain today. This weekend will be spent pulling the cables through the data pipes and hooking up the network and cable-tv underground. If time permits, I will work on clearing out dirt to start leveling the hill. I plan to terrace it to two levels.
