This bit of the build is a little heart breaking, as it requires the burring of around 400 blocks (12 tonnes) and will never be seen in the final construction. I chose this route as I wanted to build the main structure (9×4.5m pool) on a single solid slab and…
Around four tonnes of hardcore spread out for where the plage ‘beach’ will be going. The photo below shows the initial plumbing being laid for the two ‘bubblers’ that will provide a nice feature in the beach area.
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…
Work has obviously ground to a halt with us not being able to get to France at the moment, but work has started again now on the terracing. On Monday team started with the marking out and by the middle of the week the footings were dug a steelwork starting…
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…