A number of different things have been achieved today. First of all, digger was back to level some of the spoil that was extracted from the pool. Now we have a height off the slab, we know the final patio level. We are probably going to put AstroTurf down next to the patio, to give a small ‘sports’ area. So we’ve left a lot of the spoil there, but have levelled it off to 100mm lower than the finished height. This is for a blinding level to be installed on top of the spoil before installing the AstroTurf.
It is just about possible to see the thin layer that has been taken off the left hand end of the pool. This is for the 2.5m ‘beach’ area, that will be 40cm high (~30cm water depth). With the final level of the pool being about 50-60cm above the natural terrain, we have only needed to scrape a little off top allow for 10cm hardcore, 20cm slab, and 40cm pool wall.
The earthworks company have also dropped of 4 tonnes of 10/15mm washed gravel for backfilling. So this evening I moved about 1.5 tonnes of it to provide the solid base for some of the pipes that do not sit on the slab itself.
