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…
Heading back to the UK tomorrow, so wanted to have a little bit of a tidy up in and around the pool today. As you can see, all of the spare blocks, scaffolding boards, and overspill from the day before has been removed and the pool is looking really good….
It was all completed in around two hours, but yet again not as straightforward as I would have hoped. We have had a bit of rain over the weekend, so the concrete delivery driver refused to take the truck around the back (across the grass) so that it was close…
Everything is now prepared and ready for the pouring of the concrete into the blocks. I have put some scaffolding planks (old formwork boards) on spare blocks to help with the pour as the height from the inside of the pool is now standing at 1.6m. You can also see…
I decided that given the concrete is relatively fluid (S4) then this could cause a problem between the main walls and the small wall in the middle of the pool. The small wall is to act as a separation between the shallow end and the slope and is made up…
All of the 8mm vertical re-bar has now been added to the pool walls, ready for the concrete pour. The two ends also have L-Shaped re-bar inserted at 25cm intervals to connect the slabs that will be added at either end for the ‘beach area’ and hidden roller shutter (deep…
The final course for this phase of the build was installed today. This course sees the incorporate of a number of the wall ‘pass throughs’ for the three LED projectors (closest wall) and two inlets (left hand end). The photo above shows the back of the ‘through wall’ conduits for…
I took the drone out for a spin this morning to capture some shots from above.
Great progress today, with three rows being completed. There is just one more row to complete until the concrete is poured, which is booked now for next Tuesday. There will be two more rows installed after that, but these will extend past the current basin, to form a 40cm (35cm…
Before the fourth layer is added, I have inserted a series of pre-bent L-Shaped 8mm rebar angles into the walls to allow connection to the shallow-end slab that will be formed later on. Inserting these joints now should create a super strong structure, with all elements of the pool being…