More Money and More Pits
The sandblasting is complete as you all know. Today came the jackhammer crew to determine the extent of the leak. Workmen arrived at 7:30 this morning. Early, in fact, and I was delighted. I shuffled my laptop and notes for finalizing some edits to the short story into the dining room. As Eldest and Younger have a good friend visiting for a couple of weeks and he's sleeping on the aerobed tucked into the corner of the living room, I was very quiet. I settled into proofreading and drinking tea (ginger with a little honey for my still sore throat).
At 8:15, the lead workman knocked on the back door. "Will you come see?" he asks. "We have a big problem."
My heart plummeted, or a near equivalent, and I thought, "Holy crap! How are we going to pay for a 'big' problem?"
Along the side of the pool nearest my office, where the long horizontal crack leaked like a sieve, the workmen had chipped a foot wide hole. It didn't take a contractor to realize the crowbar wasn't supposed to drop into a gaping black hole where the cement/gunnite was supposed to be.
It was a good thing I hadn't eaten breakfast yet; I'm not sure it would've stayed down.
I gave permission for them to open the entire length of the pool on that side.
At least there's good news now. Things aren't as horrible as we initially feared. The hole isn't deep, and there isn't damage around the entire circumference of the pool! However, they will have to use rebar and non-shrink cement to replace the top foot of a twenty-foot section of pool.
So much for the initial estimate.
::bites nails::
This afternoon they're digging a narrow trench for the jandy line while waiting for the other team to deliver rebar and cement.
I just hope the light at the end of this tunnel isn't an oncoming train!
At 8:15, the lead workman knocked on the back door. "Will you come see?" he asks. "We have a big problem."
My heart plummeted, or a near equivalent, and I thought, "Holy crap! How are we going to pay for a 'big' problem?"
Along the side of the pool nearest my office, where the long horizontal crack leaked like a sieve, the workmen had chipped a foot wide hole. It didn't take a contractor to realize the crowbar wasn't supposed to drop into a gaping black hole where the cement/gunnite was supposed to be.
It was a good thing I hadn't eaten breakfast yet; I'm not sure it would've stayed down.
I gave permission for them to open the entire length of the pool on that side.
At least there's good news now. Things aren't as horrible as we initially feared. The hole isn't deep, and there isn't damage around the entire circumference of the pool! However, they will have to use rebar and non-shrink cement to replace the top foot of a twenty-foot section of pool.
So much for the initial estimate.
::bites nails::
This afternoon they're digging a narrow trench for the jandy line while waiting for the other team to deliver rebar and cement.
I just hope the light at the end of this tunnel isn't an oncoming train!