Pool pictures

As a picture is supposed to paint a thousand words, have a look at how our pool was built.

Day 1

Take that moley !

Anything he can do, a JCB can do better. As you can see, it is a bit wet, but not ready to swim in.

Day 5

The steel sides give the pool it's shape.

Day 6

And now the steps are added.


Day 7

The bottom of the pool is formed with a concrete base.

Day 8

The concrete base is now finished, despite the fact that it kept raining.

Day 9

With the liner in, it looks a lot more like a swimming pool. That lump the other end is a giant hoover, sucking the air out from under the liner.

Day 10

The pool is very nearly full now, and the liner has been cut round the steps. It took over a day to fill up. As we are on a meter, I think it took about 100 Euros worth of water to fill it, I just hope I got the decimal point in the right place.

Day12

The digger man came back to landscape the garden, and back-fill the pool. The bloke in the hat is Michel, who built the pool single handed, apart from a little bit of help unloading trucks, and fitting the filter.

Those of you who think that this blog entry is a bit late as we have been lazing round the pool, wrong. We are both busy laying the patio around it!