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…
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…
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…
Today saw the first major landmark in this project, with the whole for the main pool basin being dug. The hole is approximately 10m long, 5.5m wide, and 1.7m deep. It proved to be a little harder work that first expected and needed a much smaller bucket to get through…
We are now back in France and have setout the the various elements of the pool and terraces. The yellow line in the right hand third is where the top terrace will end and the steps down to the pool deck begin. You can see the pool excavation area marked…