{"id":402,"date":"2020-11-16T11:30:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T11:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diypool.info\/?p=402"},"modified":"2020-11-17T09:00:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T09:00:15","slug":"backfill-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/diypool.info\/?p=402","title":{"rendered":"Backfill complete"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jamescockroft-001-site5.jtempurl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1150-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/jamescockroft-001-site5.jtempurl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1150-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-409\" srcset=\"http:\/\/diypool.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1150-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/diypool.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1150-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/diypool.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1150-1-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/diypool.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1150-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/diypool.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1150-1-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/diypool.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1150-1.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The earthworks contractor has been at the pool todays with the digger and dumper truck and completed the backfilling to the required level &#8211; much easier than doing the backfill with wheelbarrows and shovels&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This should now settle and provide a perfect base for the two higher level slabs at either end, which will be the next job when I am back out next time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What appear to be piles of gravel on the right hand side of the pool is deliberate. It is so that I have access to finish plumbing in the LED projectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jamescockroft-001-site5.jtempurl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1151-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/jamescockroft-001-site5.jtempurl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1151-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-413\" srcset=\"http:\/\/diypool.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1151-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/diypool.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1151-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/diypool.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1151-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/diypool.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1151-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/diypool.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1151-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/diypool.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1151-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jamescockroft-001-site5.jtempurl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1152-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/jamescockroft-001-site5.jtempurl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1152-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-412\" srcset=\"http:\/\/diypool.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1152-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/diypool.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1152-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/diypool.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1152-1-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/diypool.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1152-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/diypool.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1152-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/diypool.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_1152-1-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/diypool.info\/?p=402\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-earthworks","category-pool-walls","category-slab-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/diypool.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/diypool.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/diypool.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/diypool.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/diypool.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/diypool.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"http:\/\/diypool.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/diypool.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/diypool.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/diypool.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/diypool.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}