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…
Test installation of the firepit in top void of the wall is successful. It was a little windy and too light to get the full effect in the photo, but is going to be great at night! Next up was to finished the pointing of the stone tiles on the…
One of the main jobs to do whilst out in France for a couple of weeks was to install the finished materials on the feature wall and render the other exposed concreate walls. A bit of a labour of love and definitely a family effort, it took around two days…
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…
We’ve managed to grab a couple of weeks out in France over the Easter holiday, so can see the progress made on the pool house and the rendering of the pool walls. There is about another days’ work on the pool floor and walls before it is ready for the…
Quite some effort to remove the supports from under the cast beams that go across the deep end of the pool. There were 10x100mm blocks under the shuttering to support the formwork whilst the beam was being cast, resulting in several tonnes of force being exerted on the blocks; nothing…
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…
Whilst not on the original list of jobs for this trip, it would have been a wasted opportunity if we did not complete this job, with the pool basin being dry and other jobs all being completed successfully. The photo below shows the slope the day before the pour, with…
The steelwork for the slope has now been completed. One of the more straight forward jobs on the build, with the lower sheets sitting on the blocks installed earlier on in the year and the top layer spaced using S-Shaped spacers. It just goes to show that it is all…