We have made big progress since the last update! Our pool guys have been in, the tile band has been made roughly an inch wider than the previous, this was to ensure the worst of the pitted plaster at the water level line was cut out.
The stairs have been rounded off and retiled to make a smoother transition in to the pool, and also less prone to toe stubbing etc when pratting around in the shallow end.
New skimmer fitted, new return line fitted, and new lights fitted - the lights were trunked down the side of the pool about 2 inches below the new tile band, but as they're large dish style lights you cannot see where they were installed.
The coping stones were freehand cut, bullnosed and stuck down and all grouted up.
The hose has been in the pool for about 18 hours so far, and it's been calculated that with our hose flow rate it should be full by Friday afternoon, ready for an icy weekend plunge!
For a 30 year old and completed neglected pool, it's not come up too badly! There are bits in the plaster base which aren't perfect and not much can be done about that, but if we get good use out of and love the pool we'll potentially look in to tiling the whole thing.