swimming pool

More progress on our St John Villa Swimming Pool...concrete pour for the walls, stairs, bench seat, and pump house base scheduled for this week!

Another week and our new St John swimming pool is taking more form...pun intended because the work this week was to finish forming -- with plywood and steel rebar -- the walls, bench seat (that will extend the entire length of the side of the pool that faces out to the Caribbean Sea!), stairs (we are building a wonderfully grand stairway into the pool), and the pump room floor (which our contractor calls 'the Dog House').

Our plumber and electrician also worked hard to 'rough in' their piping and wiring to ensure we have the proper pool water flow and lights. 

Here are the fruits of their labor:
View of pool looking out to the Caribbean Sea
a patio will be to the left of the pool
The stairs will be grand!
Bench seat will extend the entire way of on wall
so you can sit in the pool and look at the Caribbean Sea!

One of our several pool jets which are arranged to move water around the pool
& any debris into the skimmer
Get your pool float and feel the water!  Soon....

Tropical Storm Isaac has come & gone & Carlson Construction & their subcontractors are back at work laying rebar & plumbing for our new St John villa swimming pool

We love our plumbers, appropriately named Love City Plumbing:

Jamel (left) and Joseph (right) owner of Love City Plumbing

They were hard at work on Friday, the day after Tropical Storm Isaac passed by St John. Barges, ferries, and airports were still closed but these guys were back at work at Great Expectations!

The week was a productive one even though as of Wednesday just about everyone was running around securing their boats and property in anticipation of

Tropical Storm Isaac

making its appearance.  Luckily, St John was spared since the storm made an unexpected jog to the south and the center of the storm never got closer than 150 miles from us.  No complaints, mind you!  We now hope that Isaac will treat the mainland USA kindly.

The floor of our pool is almost ready for concrete...

Plastic coating and rebar are laid prior to concrete being poured

Joseph now needs to finish his rough plumbing and lay the pool drain prior to the concrete being poured.

The new week starts and the weather looks great!

St John forecast for week of August 27, 2012