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Wild

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My auto shop teacher owned a pool company. He'd hire the rocker greaser dudes from his classes. They said the job sucked sucked but he paid good and bought them beer on Fridays lol.
They gotta be making a killing on these pools. I'd say 50% margins, minimum.
 

Wild

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Same company doing the cement work or diy?
Pool company is doing it all. All I had to do was hire an electrician to run a feed from the house panel to the pool panel, and a plumber to run the gas line from the meter to the heater. They do everything else, and they have a sister company that does landscaping, so we're gonna have them do that at the end.
 

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honest question, did they build a good gravel bed with drainage underneath, I have heard horror stories about those fiberglass shells getting water under them and the shells floating up out of the ground.
 

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honest question, did they build a good gravel bed with drainage underneath, I have heard horror stories about those fiberglass shells getting water under them and the shells floating up out of the ground.
Yeah, they did. They also install an auto sump pump system that pumps water out from around the pool. I've heard those same stories. You definitely need to check the gauge every so often, and make sure rain water stays drained away from them. My neighbor doesn't have an auto pump and he has to go out there in the dead of winter and drop a bilge pump w/ a garden hose down into a hole. Fuuuuck that shit.
 

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Formerly 'kvr28'
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Yeah, they did. They also install an auto sump pump system that pumps water out from around the pool. I've heard those same stories. You definitely need to check the gauge every so often, and make sure rain water stays drained away from them. My neighbor doesn't have an auto pump and he has to go out there in the dead of winter and drop a bilge pump w/ a garden hose down into a hole. Fuuuuck that shit.
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