Here Comes the Equipment and Wall

Both our pool builder and landscaper/wall builder were at our house today starting two separate projects.

EQUIPMENT
The crew built a little area for the equipment pad at the corner of our yard. It's back from the wall a bit so our ornamental fence posts can go in next week.

Wall Builders
The crew began carving our the exact area where the stone wall will go. You can see some of the stone we are using in the right of the photo. That was delivered around 7 this morning. Below the stone wall is our pool deck. Above it is the patio.

Steps
We are using 4 foot granite steppers to bring guests from the lowest level (0 feet) to the pool deck area (2 feet)

Fence Debate

Here's my current deal. One part of the yard is about to have a retaining wall build where a step up fence is about to get built.

My town has a 5 foot regulation and this exact area where the step up would occur is not 5 Feet. For example, the child could be on wall and the height of the wall would only be 3.5 feet at this very point.

Anyone have any ideas on how to get this to code?

I am debating on not putting in a wall in this area and just grading it so the fence goes up the grade maintaining a consistant five feet. Would rather not break up the wall though. The view you are seeing below is more of a cross view as the fence intersects with the wall. The wall is being built Mon/Tues of next week.

New Timber Retaining Wall and Backfill

With the holidays, the past two weeks have been a bit slow with little things dones every few days. next week is big as pipes and electric is scheduled to go in along with a new stone wall. Here are a few photos from the past week or so.

Side note, backfilling is expensive when you factor in a Cat and the stone. Recommend negotiating this stuff as much as possible upfront as many pool builders don't include backfill/compacting in their project.

Building the Timber Wall.
The crew actually had to take apart to put in another set of deadmen higher on the wall.

The Backfilling Begins with Stone
Backfills the pool to what's called pipe grade so the pipes can be put in during the next step.

The Crew Compacts the backfill

Gunite Complete

The crew was hard at work and made huge progress since this morning. Believe gunite is complete.

Gunite Gang Begins

The Gunite crew got to the house bright and early (6:45am) to begin the process. Grabbed these quick pics before heading to work. Can't wait to see what it looks like later.

Preplumbing the Spa

The crew was over this morning to do the last thing before gunite......plumb the spa. You'll also notice that the wood forming around the back of the pool. This will be used to shoot the gunite against.
Gunite is scheduled for Fri so pretty excited for that milestone.

Steel Almost Complete - Bonding Time

All the steel with the exception of the stairs is complete. The electrician also came by today to electrically bond the pool. That means you don't supposedly get cooked in the event of lightening or other electrical issues.

You'll see the copper bonding in the right photo