Cleaning Cleaning and more Cleaning

Jewels spent all weekend draining, pressure washing, then acid wash.  The result was great!

 
 

Once Jewels was finished cleaning, it was obvious we needed to plaster.  Our shipment of "easy paint on plaster" was scheduled to arrive Thursday, May 2nd.  Little did we know...

Pool Time - Green Be Gone

Our latest big house project: (drum roll....) PLASTERING THE POOL.  This was a planned 2 weekend project.  We knew it would be a lot of work, but we did not expect it to almost kill us (not exaggerating).

The pool was in bad shape when we bought the house in 2007.  We had done our best to keep it usable.  The past two years became a battle of Man vs. Algae.  And the algae always won.  Jewels decided we were perfectly capable of draining, acid washing, patching, and plastering the pool ourselves.  Perfectly capable...  Turns out we are capable, but stupid.  There is a a reason pool owners gladly spend thousands of dollars to pay others to complete this task.

We stopped putting chemicals in the pool at Christmas - no sense wasting money there - so it was solid green by the time we started this project.  The frogs thought is was their nightclub - SOOO LOUD.

While the pool was draining, Jewels put on his cool marshmallow suit and energetically began acid washing.  (We were so young and naive at this point)  Braden joined the fun too!

The test spot showed an incredible difference.  The acid wash made such a difference.  

As the pool drained it was obvious we needed to power wash prior to acid washing.  I jumped in to help.

The shop vac proved to be a valuable tool - sucking up the residual sludge that refused to drain!

It's been a long time...but we're still working on the house!

So, I've taken a "few" years off.  Honestly I wasn't sure our blog still existed.  It took a little work to find it!  We are still working on the house.