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created_time: 2026-02-05T22:23:00.000Z
title: 02-05 On-Site Discussion: Pool Tiling and Team Mentoring
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Speaker 1 00:00:00
You can't leave yet.
Speaker 2 00:00:55
Mañana. Un tiempo. Es más rápido. Oh, so... Pero... ¿Qué va a hacer Brandon? Yeah. ¿Él puede poner membranes? Sí. No sé si va a poner membranes.
Speaker 2 00:01:26
¿En todo? Sí, en todo. ¿Él puede hacer eso? Sí.
Speaker 1 00:01:41
¿En todo? Sí.
Speaker 2 00:02:17
It's been brand new flow here. 
Speaker 3 00:02:26
Oh, my fault. It's 3701? Or it's rapid set?
Speaker 3 00:03:06
It's 3701. 
Speaker 1 00:03:46
Oh, this one still needs to cut.
Speaker 3 00:04:08
That's fine. We can, you know. 
Speaker 2 00:04:12
Square, right. 
Speaker 3 00:04:58
Okay. Right, so for me we need the measurement from, Here, so we can make it the same. Okay. Is it, is it, uh... It's the same, if you want it to be the same, or more or less the same. Because when it's more or less, it's easy, right? So, oh, okay, six feet, six feet, you know. But if it's six or eight, you know, it's different.
Speaker 2 00:05:34
Three feet inside, right? Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:05:39
Yeah, exactly. Um, but, yeah, as long as we get the... Because the tile's going to be like this, and then turn, so it's... We need to make sure... Can you hear this? It's the noise when they, they... Would you start full in the corner, full tile in the corner, inside corner?
Speaker 3 00:06:15
No, you want to start here. Full tile, right? Well, you want to start like this and go that way, right? You essentially want to, the best way, put a square here and flip that, right? So I put a square here and go that way, square here, right? And then go that way. And then you cut this, and then this one is a bull, all these are bullnose. And then this is a double bullnose here. And then it's a, and then it's a cut here, or a miter.
Speaker 3 00:06:57
So, that's the only, but I think we can, Because there's no alignment anywhere else. Okay. So, mañana puedes hacer eso.
Speaker 3 00:07:27
Y después, eso. And, um, five minutes? Two minutes? And for me, I'll just... Here.
Speaker 3 00:08:12
We're going to make it even, basically.
Speaker 2 00:08:27
It is higher than the coat. Hm? It is higher than the coat.
Speaker 3 00:08:31
Okay. Brandon, can we put it up there? Okay. Más o menos. Okay. Hm? Yeah, Brandon, why don't you come here? Oh, yeah. So we can... Right here?
Speaker 3 00:09:06
Okay. So it's not as deep, right? Oh, yeah. so just for so it's 90 90 and a quarter yeah um 90 and a quarter let's go to there just in case no no the uh that corner no where the where the shop vac is yeah i believe you.
Speaker 3 00:09:52
but i just want to double check okay so 90 and a quarter, More or less? Alright. So, 5 inches. 
Speaker 2 00:10:18
Yeah, 5 inches. Good to know.
Speaker 1 00:10:28
Okay.
Speaker 4 00:10:35
Yep. Tomorrow, 5 and a half.
Speaker 3 00:10:47
He misses you already. He misses you. Yeah, we need lunch chips. um you can do float strips you can add that um you can even fix this right here you know.
Speaker 3 00:11:26
there's no i don't know why we don't we probably just didn't think about it but we can you know same thing here we're not going to cut it so we're just going to we're going to make them the same find them find the center of the uh skimmer find the center of this gamer and then uh have your mud go to the same same point yeah yeah you just want to make sure it's got yeah exactly so you.
Speaker 3 00:12:01
know the tile's going to be whatever 516s how much of the skimmer on the face do you cover up do you go all the way to this edge here, With the tile? No, because you want it to be as open as possible. So we'll just do a little trim here. And then you put the cut on top. So you just cut the tiles here. And we'll just go across here.
Speaker 3 00:12:33
But yeah, if you want to do this and this, I don't know if it matters to do this. If you say it's just as easy when you're doing this one to do this one, then don't worry about it. But the way I look at this kind of stuff, and this is why it's, to me, them not showing up today. Rene's alternator went out, you know, Alex Hirsny.
Speaker 3 00:13:12
In fact, I was talking to him just a little bit ago. So he says he'll be here tomorrow. So, but now, I mean, both of them can do that, right? So you shouldn't be doing that, right? They can do those. You shouldn't be doing that. Then we look at and go, you know, if you want, we can work on it together. I've got, are you taking lunch yet?
Speaker 3 00:13:42
I'm on lunch now. Huh? I'm on my lunch right now. No, then we don't need to be talking here. Okay. Do you want to text me? Yeah, I'll text you.
Speaker 3 00:15:04
Oh, you know what else we can do be doing.
Speaker 4 00:16:25
It's not that we fall for the same thing, but he takes care of you.
Speaker 1 00:17:27
Thank you.
Speaker 1 00:26:30
Hmm.
Speaker 2 00:31:59
Como el que le hago, como el que le hago a uno.
Speaker 1 00:35:58
Bye.
Speaker 1 00:37:06
Thanks for watching. 
Speaker 3 00:38:47
I don't know exactly where he, my guess is that this is the top.
Speaker 1 00:38:58
Gonna grab the laser and put it over here.
Speaker 3 00:39:37
You're gonna want the laser to get the stain. So, just so you know, the reason why the battery fell off. because it says don't transport it with the battery on so we always come up with batteries okay so let's uh let's get the stand that this line right here is uh this line is bottom of coping.
Speaker 3 00:40:16
give it a measure you know i do see my truck you know it's one thing for me tonight here i'll do.
Speaker 3 00:43:20
okay number one gotta be level oh so bubble so this guy here and this guy here don't always agree okay we go over there um ultimately i mean i just move it until it's there.
Speaker 3 00:43:54
and i slide out whatever makes sense yeah and here's the time you want to set it up so. Focus your, it's going to be wherever this guy is, it's going to be hard to get that laser, right?
Speaker 3 00:44:27
So I always kind of pay attention to it, about right here, so. So you're not trying to get the laser on any, any? I'm going to get the laser on that. This, actually this point right here, you can see, this point right here, and I think that's going to get me there. That's not top of coping? I think it's the top of track. So we measure from here to here.
Speaker 3 00:44:58
Do you want to measure that real quick? My guess is you're going to have one and seven eighths. So you've got to burn an inch, right? sure so and then one thing that's the other line there that'll give us here okay.
Speaker 3 00:46:24
So I don't know what this tip is. We haven't, we haven't determined, we think that's what this is. Right? What we know is the top of the float needs to be one and seven eighths inch. I'm going to send this to you. You don't need that. I'll show it to you. I'm just, so you have it.
Speaker 3 00:47:02
So to the float, one and seven eighths inch from that same line is three and seven eighths inch to the float. Essentially, if I win, which would you prefer to do, the top?
Speaker 3 00:47:43
It doesn't matter. The bottom first, maybe? Okay. So, then what we're going to want to do is take our measurement, 3, 3-7-8 inches. You know how to work these things, right?
Speaker 3 00:48:14
Yeah, I know how to turn it on. Turn it on, get it there. I'm going to put it with that top line there first. Actually, it wouldn't go with the bottom line. It would go with the bottom line.
Speaker 3 00:49:01
Right there? You see? I think it gets a little bit low like that. That's what I thought. How's that look to you? Okay. I'm going to tighten it up and then we'll double check it. Sometimes it moves when you're tightening it in between those. It still looks good right there. All right. So, now we can test here, right. 
Speaker 1 00:49:32
so he's got it right at the line there same here it's got a touch in the top and then you should.
Speaker 3 00:49:60
also be able to go through tape one and seven eighths three and eight's two inches so it should be three and six we should be able to go here.
Speaker 3 00:50:31
So, yeah, it should be right at two inches.
Speaker 1 00:50:33
Yeah, I see it.
Speaker 3 00:50:38
Okay. Then we'll clean it, move it to the core, wrap it. It's got to be two inches here and here, right? This one, you know, if you want it to go to the other line before it's two inches.
Speaker 3 00:51:11
So, go ahead. Just doing it this way works out usually pretty good or... You tell me.
Speaker 2 00:51:19
Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:51:20
It's been working so far, but it seems a little extra work just to get the miters and have them line up versus just running a stick. straight that over overhangs but some things he cares about and i don't find them yeah i don't mind this it's actually um cleaner right so what he's hoping for is just to float all in one go so.
Speaker 3 00:51:56
two inches is the height okay so what i do is i clean it something 254 rapid set put extra on. enough under enough material under there so when i push it down.
Speaker 3 00:52:31
And I would do it, I'd do it with like the torpedo. So I'm not pushing down in one spot with my fingers. It's a war. Right. And so, and then you're gonna go down to its level and you just double check it. In the front, in the front two inches and in the back two inches. Two inch from the laser, yeah. Okay. The laser's gonna be full.
Speaker 3 00:53:03
Right? So here's what I'd say, go ahead and mix yourself whatever you need and then pull one down, semi-attach and start working on the other one. I'll come out and check this one. Corey's got me this one. I told the customer two weeks and now he's like pushing me and pushing me and I want to get it done this week for him.
Speaker 3 00:53:36
So he gives it to me yesterday that's what we're talking about you know he's like I want to get it done this week okay. Okay. So this morning he's like you done yet? No. Rocky Point looks good man. Oh that's good. It's like a gray colored plaster. Yeah. Yeah. I've seen the picture but it looked like a mortar or something. I hated the color without the water in it. With the water it doesn't look good. I know we didn't do any.
Speaker 3 00:54:15
crack details there but is anything visible right now? No. So this is powder that you're seeing there. No I think the issue with toll this was that they didn't fill it. So, but that went away though, for the most part, yeah. All right, let's get going on that. Cause I got to leave here in 30, 20 minutes, 30 minutes. I'm going to run it right now. I'll let you go.
Speaker 3 00:54:54
But to me, keep working while I'm talking, but you know, if we can get this down for you, right? This kind of, how do I take the dimensions, install to the dimensions, then it's how do I determine them, right? And he doesn't even know that completely yet. He's got to, like, if I left him alone, he'd be able to figure it out, but you know.
Speaker 3 00:55:28
You know, but I'm determining this stuff. I think Corey would have to do a lot of it anyways. Like, hey, here's what I'm doing. You're okay with it. You know, and there's a lot of, man, what am I doing? You know. It's got to be a rhyme, doesn't it? Yeah, but I just copied everything from Tennyson. Well, you know, so.
Speaker 3 00:56:27
by the way we could always move this over there like that was the first thing i said it's like how the canopy's put up yeah you know and and he didn't and then i was like i want a canopy put up today you know and he put there and he put up one and it's always like he resists me and he's like oh it's good we have this yeah all right.
Speaker 1 00:57:43
Thanks for watching. 
Speaker 5 01:06:51
or make it volumetric also using water in the naming material will automatically set it to water in lumion view allowing for the wave scale and reflectivity to further be tweaked. finally when we are happy with our settings and style we can render them out.
Speaker 5 01:07:55
Also, using water in the naming of the material will automatically set it to water in Lumion view, allowing for the wave scale and reflectivity to further be tweaked.
Speaker 1 01:10:55
Oh.
Speaker 3 01:12:29
Why is it three inches? Three inches? I'm just messing with you. It's okay.
Speaker 4 01:12:36
I got this little square.
Speaker 3 01:12:39
To start it off, just take it away and use my torpedo level. Okay. I like it. So. Yeah. Then you're good. These little holes. Sure.
Speaker 3 01:13:12
I told Manuel to, remember when he was doing the, when he was doing the Regulus with the, rapid set? Yeah. I said, try without the .254 so we can knock it off super easy. and uh we did and it didn't even hold up the tube controller is not gonna lie i was a little disappointed.
Speaker 3 01:13:54
just like it gave me just enough time to get into my groove and then told me then i had to get out.
Speaker 3 01:15:08
You can see a bird.
Speaker 1 01:15:09
Is that better. 
Speaker 3 01:15:34
Make sure you're sitting flat. Yeah, I'm moving straight down. Maybe just the hair. So, you see how it's thicker on the bottom than it is on this bottom here? So that tells you exactly.
Speaker 3 01:16:04
So, go a little bit more towards you. so now you see you're just i mean if you do that could you make it you want you can make it be what you want to see in a way like by just moving your tape you could but what's happening is you're leveling it out think of it like a you know like a bubble level right if you were going back and forth then you could right but what you're doing is you're going in my straight is what you're doing right so if it's the same on both sides of the tape then you know that your.
Speaker 3 01:16:40
tape is on both sides straight at least that way two inch mark right but if it's like more underneath on this side than it is on this side just not holding there didn't it.
Speaker 1 01:17:18
The beauty about you now, you didn't know that you didn't value precision when you first came here.
Speaker 3 01:17:54
Right. And now you know all the effects of it. And so that's why I can go, okay, now, and you go, yep, you know. And that's kind of the thing with these other guys. They just don't know that they don't know you. But if you're going to get a good guy. that means well, like Rene and Alex, you know, first we had to go, hey, dude, you don't know. He goes, yeah, I do. No, you don't.
Speaker 3 01:18:25
Do me a favor, just shut up for a little bit. I love you. Yeah. And then he's like, oh, I see. Right? Cool? Yeah.
Speaker 1 01:18:53
And then for the top.
Speaker 3 01:18:59
So the top is where the laser is right now. Okay. So it's even with that mark right there. So what you could do, so at that point you want to split it, or you wanted to raise it up an inch, you could. I've got 15 more minutes, I can do whatever. I don't want to move the laser by yet because I don't want to cut you right there. Yeah, why don't you set those up and then we'll, yeah, let's set those up and then I'll move it.
Speaker 3 01:19:34
And for the love of God, can somebody please empty the water up? There's water in there? Yeah. So, I need somebody to wrangle these guys.
Speaker 1 01:22:24
Thank you.
Speaker 1 01:24:19
Oh.
Speaker 3 01:26:21
You might need a little bit, let's get moves here.
Speaker 1 01:27:25
Thank you.
Speaker 3 01:30:01
I won't be able to get another one out.
Speaker 1 01:30:22
Check the metal, too. I can't see it, so you probably just need to, like, squeeze it in a little bit and push it down.
Speaker 3 01:32:33
So the problem is it's right on the lines. What I did is I moved this so now I can ping it and then I put it back down. So yeah, now it looks good. all right so now we can do one of two things so we're right at the line if you want we can just.
Speaker 3 01:33:04
go up an inch go up an inch with what that i'm gonna measure an inch down right um that's what i think we should do so just like i was measuring the two inches per right so um do you want to adjust it and i'll uh, Sure.
Speaker 3 01:34:01
So go to the two, are you going to go down. 
Speaker 1 01:34:03
Oh, down. Right there? Feel good or. 
Speaker 3 01:34:22
I think we're good. So if I went an inch up, so here's a double check, right? Should be three inches here, right?
Speaker 3 01:34:59
so always kind of figure out a different way to double check you know and then you're good and. then uh i'd say the only thing yet when you did this one you left a little bit of junk right here, we could have you know so i just took this and scooped it off but i just think if you keep an eye on that you're good.
Speaker 3 01:36:19
So, you feel good about this? You do that and you say, you know what, I still got two hours, I'm going to start floating this. Anything you need from me? Told me to leave at 1.47.
Speaker 3 01:36:49
Well, my wife told me I have 15 minutes extra, because my kid has something different to that film. I was going to say we did perfect, but then... That's if nothing happens between here or wherever you got to go, right? Yeah, this usually, when I use waves, it's pretty close. As long as I'm not going through downtown, so... I find with going through downtown, people want to... They're walking in the middle of the street, you know, and they want to...
Speaker 3 01:37:21
If you are going to float, do it as one section. Okay, so before moving on to the next... Actually, we shouldn't even do this. Because the membrane T is so... Right. Got to cure it. Yeah. Which also means don't do the top at all. There's no float strips or anything yet. Right.
Speaker 3 01:37:52
Okay.
Speaker 4 01:37:56
At the other end, opposite end over there, there's a little bit of float that needs to go on.
Speaker 1 01:38:11
We've ordered it for this. We've ordered it and tied it into that.
Speaker 3 01:38:18
This was floated after, but this couldn't get floated, just like that side in the middle. I could leave it for now. If they end up, because it's not going to be a finish, right? But if they end up saying like, oh, you know, if they took the track to here, then fine. If they said, no, we stopped it here, you know, we could always just fill it after. And that's why they don't.
Speaker 3 01:38:54
have that option. Oh, no, if you floated that. So they don't think it's a fan. You know what you can do, actually? Take this guy an inch down. it needs to be like this right so if we can get an inch for tie-in and you could even go and the.
Speaker 3 01:39:29
tile here is going to be at least you can do it at that line there the bottom of the bottom of the float over there okay right and just cut in just notch in a little bit and then cut across and then remembering so i'm not i'm going to do the same thing here uh but yeah but here oh not this section okay right so this is our tile right so it doesn't need this good plaster is going to go.
Speaker 3 01:40:03
right here if i go an inch back here that's a little bit too far right on either side that would really take a big chunk out of it you know it's that inch yeah. I think you're fine. It's better to do more than less. Yeah, I would just mark an inch. I mean, we don't have to be super precise either. Mark an inch and go to 45. But yeah, take it, that line right there.
Speaker 3 01:40:35
Set up the laser for that. Measure down. Since we know this is level now, measure down and measure down. Or you can do right there. Just measure down. Yeah. Or you can just say two inches to be safe. Do that. All right. You said I was gonna do this first,
Speaker 3 01:41:06
but I don't wanna do that first. I'm gonna create a little bit of dust. I would actually do this first so we can get membrane on it. We can get membrane on it. Then I don't have to worry about the float for tomorrow. And after I notch and cut it out, the membrane, should I run Membrane-C all the way down on it, or here, or? No, because I think if you notch it right here, this is the only thing I really need to have.
Speaker 3 01:41:38
But again, I mean, ultimately we're going to get more Membrane-C down here. So if you said, you know what, I feel more comfortable just wrapping it like that, okay, fine. After I try it. So, yeah. You really want to do that first? It just needs two layers of Membrane-C, so I'd probably go for it.
Speaker 3 01:42:16
We're almost done floating. Alright, alright, we'll be done floating tomorrow. I like it. So we're abandoning this plan, correct?
Speaker 3 01:42:57
Do what you could do, also. No, no, that'll get up. We'll probably fill that and cut it, because it's just a drain. We don't need a cover. We're working on it. We are. But I can do that all the same day. I can wrap it, set that, cut it, waterproof it. And then when we do BC Pro in there, we're going to do a BC Pro Black. So we'll tint it, and then we're going to make it smooth like we did with the HydroVan.
Speaker 3 01:43:31
And go. Thank you.
Speaker 1 01:44:21
I don't think I'm going to eat.
Speaker 1 01:45:51
Thank you.
Speaker 3 01:48:43
What can you tell me about this job?

[AI_SUMMARY]
An on-site discussion focuses on pool tiling techniques, emphasizing precise measurements and tile layout. Crew leader Braden mentors team members Eric and Manuel, teaching them the importance of accuracy through hands-on training with a laser level. The conversation evolves into a reflection on work philosophy, viewing setbacks as opportunities for growth. The team adapts their immediate plans to prioritize waterproofing and notching, demonstrating a culture that intertwines technical skills with personal development and purpose.