It’s Friday! I know things have been a bit slow around here this week (but thank you ALL for your great comment on my Real Life Home Tour post – I’m glad I’m not alone!). I’m still recovering after our week away and then being in San Antonio from early Sunday morning to late Wednesday night for work this week. I should be back in full force next week!
With me being away, I was stressing a bit about the pool project, but things obviously progressed just fine without me 😉 If you need to catch up, you can check out these posts:
The footings for the retaining wall were poured last Friday. The concrete company then couldn’t get out to set up the forms until Wednesday, and then the wall itself was poured yesterday!
I think you can see pretty quickly just how much dirt needs to be back-filled behind both of these walls once they fully cure. You can also see just how wide the concrete footings are in the images below. These walls aren’t going anywhere ever!
Even after a lot of the dirt was hauled away yesterday, there is still a lot more that will be moved today (our landscaper is using any remainder for a project at their office).
And then there’s always the unexpected messes where you just have to wonder WTF…we have three of these “volcano” beauties in our yard currently. I’m trying to just roll with it.
A few more random shots of the progress so far.
We’re really happy with the progress so far! But I have a strong feeling that after next week, it’s going to look even more amazing!
The plan is to still move forward will the pool excavation on Monday, weather permitting. We’re meeting with our landscaper and pool guys tonight to talk through the plans even more and officially finalize most of our selections. Can you believe my husband hasn’t ever even met the pool guy?! I can be pretty convincing. 🙂
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Did you know I was a landscape architect for 8 years before stopping when I had my second child. I can already tell with all the topography in your backyard that this will be such a great space when the pool is done and you’ve added some plants in!!
Being a born and raised California girl it is strange for me to see homes not divided by fencing. Is this common in the Midwest or it just depends on community/proximity to a major city?
Just curious 😉
Now I’m curious what the volcano messes are all about! I hope there’s no broken water pipes. Exciting to see all the progress, and it can’t get finished soon enough!
So I’m assuming after the wall cures they will put dirt back in behind the walls…?
It’s looking amazing thus far…cant wait to keep seeing the changes!
I can’t tell if it’s indicated on the plan, but were you having a fence put in around the pool or around your whole yard?
We’ll have one around our whole yard. We have the one in the back (that’s wood), but we’ll be doing the black iron six foot fence down the side of our yard (to match the one on the other side that our neighbors have).
That sounds like it’s going to be really pretty. Can’t wait to see it come together!
Oh, wow! Those are some retaining walls! We’re in the process of building our second pool. We built one four years ago and then moved last summer. I still can’t believe we’re doing it again. It’s a process, but so worth it in the end. I can’t wait to see your updates!