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Tiling the Swimming Pool

Bob discusses the consturction of the new pool, including the tile and plastering on the walls.
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Tiling the Swimming Pool

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" The pool is actually 16 by 34, which is a modified lot design. Pitt Gardavsky how are you?"

" Pretty good Bob."

" Our pool contractor is suffering from the weather, no doubt."

" That's for sure."

" Yeah. Let me get down there with you and take a closer look at what you're doing. What---- Well, first let's take a look at this side. This wasn't here last week, the edge."

" This is called coping stone, Bob."

" The coping stone."

" Right. It's a precast material and it's set in concrete on top of our pool beam."

" And it has nice bulldoze on it so that when you come in to the pool you don't scratch yourself. Let me get back."

" [Unk] smooth edge."

" The tile that you're using, is that a specialized product, a specialized tile----"

" No, it's a stan----"

" just for pools?"

" It's a standard pool tile, and we're putting on in a little different pattern."

" Yes. I like the colors a lot that I imagine Andrea Clark Brown, the architect who picked this for us."

" They picked it. They also designed how the tile was gonna be placed."

" So that it's kind of erratic or random, how you're----"

" Right."

" Okay. What is it that you're putting it on with? Is it a thinset?"

" That's a thinset material Bob, and that will hold the tile on the wall and then we'll grow it over that."

" And you can actually work in this rain or you're gonna have to stop."

" We're gonna have to stop pretty soon."

" Okay. Well, thanks for giving us a peek at what it will look like when it's completed. What about the plastering on the rest of the walls?"

" Well, as soon as we get some decent weather, that will be our next step."

" That will be the white marble dust, is it?"

" [Unk] finish."

" Yeah, okay. Well, we'll check with you next week."

" Great."

" Good luck."

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