Right, i thought i'd post up the story so far of what has been my summer project this year, in case you couldnt guess from the title its building a pool! More specificaly a 32 x 16' liner pool with a hopper deep end and a shallow end.
Anyways enuf of the details for the minute, here's sum heavy machinery pics
Before, with set out lines for the dig:
Digging, it started as good fun raggin a 6 tonne 4wd dumper around (they'll climb anything!!) but after about 100 tonnes shifted it rapidly turned to boredom!!:
Big jump here, as photobucket doesnt seem to be letting me upload any more pics at the moment!!!? Anyway, after the rough dig, the foundation for the pool walls were shuttered, and poured and then the walls were built on top 4'9" tall from 4" concrete blocks on their flat. The walls were then rendered with sand and cement, the roman end steps are preformed fibreglass, (and fookin expensive!) they were tied into the walls as they were being built up and concrete poured behind them to secure solidly in place.
The shallow end floor was then screeded with soft sand and cement, and the deep end square in the centre was also screeded, after the main drain was set up in it (pain in the arse and a lot of manual digging involved!).
Then the final deep end hopper panels were screeded, these were bloody tricky!
The pool is further on from this point, but as i said photobucket is being difficult so i shall wait till another evening to update with the latest pics!
To those still reading and not bored stiff, i hope you like my 'little project' and i shall update untill completion, which i hope is in the near future so i can get some usage before i go back to uni!!!!!!!
*** Coombsie's Summer Project: Pool Build *** COMPLETE!! ***
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