Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “I learned how pools are made!”.
Should we talk about your pool they? Finally, they finally shot the concrete they actually did. They actually did my believe level was low, yeah yeah, it’s uh the shortage. So apparently, the issue comes down to the mix of you’ll have to forgive me, the the the the manly men who work in construction and and women and others, and anyone who works in the construction industry, all y’all, uh you’ll, have to forgive me, I’m probably gon Na get this wrong, but I think it’s the ratio of cement in the concrete does that make sense. Yeah sorry, I said. Oh, my God, because LTT Labs Jake just had a very good point that we should have had like frat bro shirts, for the trust me bro T-shirt. Oh, it’s our shirts, yeah. Oh, that makes sense.
We don’t okay, yeah yeah! We don’t have like tank tops. That makes sense yeah, but it’s a good point, though. What would have been the colored one? Oh yeah, okay, that’s fine! Yeah! We don’t have those anyways, yeah, sorry, okay, yeah, so concrete is shot. That’S cool yeah, so um, but that doesn’t mean that we’re gon na swim this Summer, Luke, no, why it needs a month to cure um and at that stage they can put on plaster they can tile and then, after that they can, like you know, do the The like that they’re, like ceiling on the top around as well, I would assume so yeah yeah. I mean I’m not a pool construction expert, which is why I hired hopefully experts to do that. We’Ll see how it goes.
Well, that’s unfortunate, I don’t even know, but oh apparently I got it right. Concrete is made of cement, okay, good and the ratios matter, depending on what you’re making right right. So that’s, apparently the problem is that there was a shortage, so there’s been a bit of backlog to get through and the shotcrete, which is really cool.
I I happened to be off that day, so I went out. I brought this bowl of watermelon and I was just kind of hanging back like watch man. I painted houses man, I know what’s up if you are out there working in the sun and the homeowner doesn’t at least like bring you out a lemonade or something from the fridge man don’t take this the wrong way, but you suck like one of my favorite Ones, it was probably bad in the end, but uh there’s this picture going around where a like internet install technician is laying on the floor yeah doing what do you guys to do um and he fell asleep and they just left him they’re, like oh he’ll, be Fine, they just let him he’s like.
I probably deserves a nap and it’s like that’s kind of a bro move, but also like yeah, probably not. I might have appreciated being woken up yeah anyway, I was watching them shoot the they call, it shot creep yeah and it’s wild, so they had two cement mixers in the back alley. They had this like machine that I mean the pump must have just been incredible because it’s this it’s this like thing they hold and they just like blow it vertically at the side. Wait I thought yeah, I thought they would have.
I thought they would have put down, they would have cast it, no, that’s nuts, no, so they they shoot it and it’s kind of like man. I don’t even know what I would compare it to like. It was kind of like painting almost like, like so they’re like they’re, like layering it or like when they applied the uh, the cellulose. It reminds me of the spray foam right, but most people won’t have that as a frame of reference. That’S why I didn’t bring it up yeah, I I don’t know so I don’t know what to compare it to that. Most people would have a frame of reference for, but but they’re they’re, just like they’re blowing it up they’re like layering it on like this, and then they go back and they actually like hand sculpt it like with tools but like hand, tools right, and so I Wouldn’T have expected any part of this, so in one day it went from rebar, with gravel and like insulation on the sides, like foam board insulation.
In one day, it went from that to uh this, like super rough thing, and they had like 10 12 people there, like huge crew. I had something called and then someone’s coming behind, like going like smoothing it out, checking making sure everything’s true and like the stairs. It’S one of those stupid things right like obviously, if, if someone had a gun to my head and said, try to figure out how they make stairs in concrete pools, I’d have been like uh uh, I mean I guess they probably form them when the concrete’s wet Um and then tile over them after, like am I am I dead yet right, but I just never thought about it, yeah and so watching them, just like you know like like basically make sand castle stairs out of partially hardened concrete because they like they have to Work on it uh in stages, so they have to do the stuff that they can do while it’s still really runny and then do the stuff that they need to do when it’s a little less runny and like they’re, just like going around like man. It is a really cool process, actually, .