Another major milestone has been the installation of the roller shutter this week. The whole purpose of the suspended beam wall at the end of the pool was to hide the roller shutter away and make it much more aesthetic. The installation was pretty straightforward, but hard work and lots…
We are back out again for about a month, but will spend some time in the south of the country celebrating a birthday. The first job on this trip has been to remove the old fruit cages and the concrete slab that used to be in front of the tractor…
The pool is now full and all the plumbing, water features, and lighting is working correctly. Although we have not got the water heater on at the moment, we could not resist taking our first dip. What an amazing feeling and sense of achievement to have built our own pool…
It is a little bit like watching paint dry, with two hose pipes on full blast it takes about two days to fill the pool. We can only fill it up bit by bit, as the guys installing the liner need to return each time the water reaches the next…
The bit that we have all be waiting for…. the liner installation! Once this is done, then we can commence filling the pool, testing it and more importantly messing around and swimming in it!
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…