This is what our backyard looked like originally: You can see the orange chalk lines of where the pool was to be dug. We began talking about this with our contractor in February.
After much back and forth, we finally got some drawings and renderings in June. It’s so cool how they can do this. We still don’t understand why the garage contractor couldn’t have provided this for us.
Excavation began in August. Pretty much immediately, the landscaping in the back was getting trampled. We had the contractor put up a plastic fence to try to keep people out of there, but that didn’t work.
My daughter and I got to climb in the Bobcat at one point. That was fun.
Because the water lines were being rerouted, the sprinkler system was shut off in the backyard. Azaleas began struggling right away. It was either stand out there in the August humidity with the hose, getting bitten by mosquitos, or find a solution. We ended up rigging up a few sprinklers that attached to the hose on a timer, which worked as long as the workers didn’t take the hose off… which happened every few days. So frustrating.
Because of the rainy weather, we had this for a few days…
This is what it looked like for quite a while, collecting rainwater and breeding mosquitos…
By September, it was looking like this…
Surrounding the pool was quite a bit of mud. The things it’s hard to see in photos are rerouting sewer lines, water pipes, etc. Doing all of that and waiting on the city inspectors took a bit of time.
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