The pool you could say was the start of all the changes. Chris and I decided to replace our pool liner before we took our house off the market because we were losing so much water daily and people could see the huge rip in it. We decided that ultimately it would cost us less to replace it ourselves than to negotiate it into a contract, and possibly sell our house faster.
This very well may have become the turning point that sealed the deal on our doubt about selling. We got some quotes on the deck while the guy was here in case we ended up not selling in time because we had planned to pull our house off the market May 1st since I would be so far along in my pregnancy. We were suddenly finding ourselves planning for our future in our home again and it just felt right.
So a few weeks later the time finally came. The new liner arrived and it was time to replace it. The pool guy came the night before and put a pump in our pool which had it drained by the next morning.
By the time the new liner was ready to be installed, we were well into conversations with our contractor who will be adding a study to the back of our house to give us a little more space as well as accomodate Kortnee when she is here and out of town guests. The same week we had the liner replaced, we were doing some major cleanup of all of the trees, bushes and whatever else we had growing on our property. As you can see below, it was WELL overdue! It took them two days to trim and clean everything up! We had to have a few trees removed from the side of our house where the addition will go which prompted more and more backyard work.
So back to the pool. The pulled out the old liner and pressure washed and bleached everything underneath it really well.
Then they patched up all the spots that had water damage...
And started putting the new liner in...
It's looking pretty inviting now if you ask me!
I thought it was interesting to see how the liner process worked since I never even knew that pools with vinyl liners existed until we bought a house with one! They arrived that day at about 11AM and were gone by 4 PM. It took about 2 days after that to fill it back up and suprisingly, only added about $125 to our water bill which I was relieved about. I guess we were already running the water so much refilling all that we lost everyday that it wasn't that big of a difference in total!
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