"Stuart Benoff" wrote in message
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Sorry ... I got this wrong. They want $1100 to refill the pool with
water after the new plaster is applied. I guess they're going to truck it
in somehow. I'm going to follow up with them about how long the new
plaster can go without water to see if this is really necessary.

Stu

We started filling mine at three in the afternoon after it had been
plastered only six hours earlier. They were still working around the pool
and edges as the water was rising. I was concerned because the plaster was
still soft.

It can't go any time without water, or it will crack. There is a process
the cement goes through. I noticed that there looked like hundreds, nay,
thousands of blisters on the bottom of the pool as it was filling. I called
the guy, and he said it was normal, that the concrete was hardening and
squeezing out some of the components.

Do whatever your installer says to do. They know what they are doing, and
if they are a contractor, and they blow it, they have to make it right.

Steve