We had to choose one of the hottest weeks of the year so far to start installing our pool, when actually all we want to do is swim in the thing, all around us i can hear neighbours kids jumping in their pools and splashing around and cooling off.
But no, not for us just yet, for us it was three days of hard slog, after the first day when the pool was dug out and we worked all day under the sweltering sun, we realised we couldn’t do that again, so we decided to do as the French labourers do and get up at the crack of dawn work until 10.30am and then do work inside as the sun starts getting fierce. A good long lunch, a siesta and then work from 5.30pm until 10pm.
It dosnt look like it from the photos but we have managed to get so much done, taking into account that even though we had a digger to do the hard work, after we had constructed the pool frame we realised we needed more room to work around it, so had to dig out the sides by hand some help from an invaluable hand drill Kev’s mum and Ian bought us. it was great at cracking away the stone, and there was a lot of stone which is good as its a solid foundation but bloody hard work to drill through.
So here are some pics of what we have done so far.
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The digger came on the back of a huge van, I’m amazed how John the digger man managed to get it into our drive way.
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Work commences
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kev contemplating his hole.
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All finished and John was away.
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Laying out the pool frame and steps.
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Lionel, our friend who was called in for back up, his help was invaluable
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We numbered the panels as we had to put them in and take them out so many times to get the layout correct. Then we had to concrete in levelling pads for the frame to sit on.
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Finally in position, still needs a bit of tweaking.
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Next week we can start concreting in the base and doing all the electrical connections etc.
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