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…
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…
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…
Today saw the successful pour of the shuttered pool walls, to make them all perfectly level and to the finished height. You can also see the slab for the technical room in the background, as well as some footings in the foreground which will connect the feature wall to the…
Which means that we are back out in France and I have some help with me this time… It is the first time my wife and youngest daughter have actually seen the work on the pool, as it has been only myself doing the work to date (except the original…
The final two courses of blocks have now been installed, along with the return jets into the beach area. You can now really get the sense of the final size of the pool. The slops has also started to take shape, as per the photo below, with the blocks to…
Made it back out for a few weeks to get on with the pool again. Mixed blessing when I arrived, with the sight of so many blocks to move…
Although I am not in France at the moment, I managed to arrange for 26.5 tonnes of gravel (11/22) to be delivered for the back filling of the pool, now that the concrete walls have cured sufficiently. The earthworks contractor has been at the pool todays with the digger and…