What a shame, I feel awful for you! What does your pool company say about all this, are they going to make it right? I remember your posts when you had the first pebble finish done. I am sure the new pebblesheen will be beautiful to go with that gorgeous tile. Actually, despite what you wrote it still looks great....we cant see the dead plaster covered plants.

Sorry to hear about all your troubles. I hope that all this is resolved shortly so you can start enjoying your pool.

Wow that is an awful experience. This is definitely a great place to vent. Some have been there and many are just very supportive. Hang in there. Your pool will be beautiful. I love the design. You'll have to post more pics to let us know when you get things completed.

Thanks for the support, guys! My husband asked why I did the post and I told him it just felt better to get it off my chest! I felt like I was whining but it is so incredibly frustrating to be in the 6th month now and no water! And on top of it all, to have parts of our yard that we should be able to still enjoy also damaged.

Our pool builder is excellent in standing by us and making it right. Cheers to them for that. It has just been several rounds of bad luck for us. I will keep you posted! Meanwhile, I'll keep looking at the posts of the amazing pools on this site :) . . . live vicariously through other people and their beautiful pools for a while!

cyber hug to you. I can't even fathom the frustration, and surely anger, I'd be feeling.

But when it gets done, and it will get done, you'll have a gorgeous pool. I love the simplicity, the tile, the planters. Somewhere in this mess there will be a lesson learned and a laugh - far, far in the future to be sure - but it'll happen. I hope you're swimming soon.

I know why you posted the info - misery loves company. We were luckier than you - we only had the pool plastered twice, the deck poured twice and the tile grouted twice. They ran over the automatic pool cover and reordered parts - wrong ones came in (but they tried to use them anyway!). Now the $$$ Coverstar cover has broken off screws and they hand cut the lip of one piece (in the middle!) - oh and it doesn't move 2" without getting stuck... We had to have our pool acid washed too (it took 8 days to get the pump working). The water is still not clear after two weeks of them messing with it. The light niche put in the gunite was the wrong one for the lights so we are living with holes in the wall and lights hanging until they can find the right parts to fix the problem. Oh, and the spa leaks - they are calling it a "nuisance leak" - but it causes the automatic filler (which was initially plumbed backwards!) to run constantly...

The pool company is still plugging along fixing one problem only to create a couple more with each weekly visit. We have been trying to be as patient as we can - yet being firm on what must be replaced - in fear the company will just walk off the job. We signed our contract March 3rd! Mmmm. Happy 6 month anniversary to us.

I feel your pain! It is a constant sick feeling in your gut. I wonder what the value of a nice summer of swimming would be?

Thanks for the opportunity to vent.

Meowracer,
I know how you feel, it took us 1 year to finish our pool. We started April 2006 and finished in April '07. We love our pool now that it is done and I've pretty much forgotten about all the trouble we've had. Kids just love the pool and after all that, it was totally worth it.

pmmhkin - Ohhhhh, 1 year?! How terrible. I shall now quite my complaining! Glad it is finished for you. It was finished just as ours was starting.

simpledreamers - sounds like we have the same sort of luck. Keep up the pressure on the company. I know a couple of people who have used our pool builder and they have all had the same sort of issues as myself, and yours as well. Just idiotic things, and it is exactly true- as soon as they fix one thing (if they even do it right), they break at least two others.

banana fanna - thanks for the compliments and hug! Maybe one day, when I'm actually swimming, I will look back and laugh. At least my husband and I know that our marriage can withstand 6 months of stress! We both like things in order and expect to work with people who have brains :), and having a yard torn up for that long, and incompetence coming at us at every turn has not been easy but we do have a lot of material to go on about on long car rides . . .

Thanks again to everyone for the support!