Water feature arrived…

Our water feature arrived late in the fall.  It is a fire/water feature fabricated by Bobe Water & Fire Features.  It will be placed at the edge of the pool as shown in the photo below.  It is copper plated with two basins.  The bottom basin will be hooked to a water line and allowed to overflow in the pool.  The smaller, upper basin will be attached to a gas line allowing a flame to be lit.  You can see a better illustration at their website at the following link:

http://www.bobescuppers.com/fire-water-pots.html

Gillette will be installing it in the spring when they finish up the remainder of the work.  They cut a pretty good deal on it for us.  They have really been wanting to install one of these on one of their jobs.  However, it was slightly over our budget so they are providing the labor and gas line to hook it up for free.  We are really excited to see what it looks like installed with new landscaping.

Pool deck is complete and fence is moving along…

Unique Concrete came back the next day to wash the surface cement off to expose the aggregate.  They then came back the following day to sawcut the control joints.  Again, you need control joints to control cracking.  Concrete will crack…period.  You just want to control where it cracks.  We had rain this week and everything seemed to drain well including the deck drain they needed to install.  Knock on wood we don’t have a drainage problems that pop up in the future.  Overall, we were pretty blown away how well the pool deck went with the coping and tile.  We are very pleased with the result.  Unique also poured a new driveway with brushed concrete, which also turned out well.

The Gillette Brothers came back today to trench out an area for the gas line that you can see in the photos.  We are adding a fire/water feature from Bobe.  The fire/water feature will be round and copper plated to allow for patina to develop.  They will come back this week to install the filter, heater and likely the fire/water feature.

Tom continued to work on the fence.  It is nice to have another honest contractor on the job.  Tom is such a perfectionist when it comes to his carpentry that he has had to pull and reset a couple of the posts when they got dinged by Unique’s equipment.  Tom wants the fence to be perfect and is definitely going that extra mile to ensure this.  I’d definitely recommend him for any carpentry work.   

The gas line will be connected to the gas service

Pool view looking north with exposed agg patio. You can also see more of the fence in.

gas line coming into where the fire/water feature will be placed