So, I have now completed all of the jobs that I came out to do and it is now ready for the liner to be fitted and water… The key things for this trip were the pointing of the feature wall and the electrics being wired up. The technical room…
On the previous trip we had installed a temporary roof on the technical room to allow the electrician to connect up the fuse box with the mains. However, I have actually got back out before that has been done and have completed the final roof, as seen in the following…
Well nearly… The pipes from the pool and into the technical room have now been connected and the remainder of the plumbing within the technical room completed. This work included the installation of the other two pumps and the filter cartridge unit. We opted for a cartridge system, as we…
Despite the weather, a nice break in France over Christmas has allowed us to install some of the electrics for the pool. Specifically the cables for all the LED lighting around the pool.
Got through a whole 500ml of glue today, completing the majority of the technical room work. The system will comprise of three pumps (one for filtration / heating, one for bubblers, and one for water fall). The inflow for each of these are on the lowest level and each have…
That is all of the work complete for this trip and with four concrete pours completed, 26.5m3 in total, it has been a real success, despite the little setback and upset at the formwork giving way on the first attempt. Sail-shade posts can be seen in place, but they are…
The biggest concrete pour of the build, with 14 cubic metres being poured using the long reach pump truck (28m arm). My daughter is tamping the concrete with the 2m metal bar to help bring the ‘cream’ to the top and sink any aggregate, leaving a nice smooth finish. The…
Apart from adding additional support to the feature wall formwork, following the disaster on Monday, we have been busy getting the slab ready for pouring next week. My daughter has been busy laying membrane and then we have fitted the drains at the correct heights. S-Shaped spacers set the height…
Well that did not go very well at all… Whilst we thought there was enough support in the formworks, they gave way in two places. Both failed at the bottom and we lost lots of concrete as a result. Thankfully disaster was obverted and we ended up using concrete to…
The walls of the technical room have now been built to a height of 1.4m. Eventually it will have a height of 2m, sloping down to 1.6m at the door side. However, some more blocks are needed before then and shuttering of the sloped sides.