Recent content by timjs

To anyone thinking about taking on a job like this. TAKE TIME OFF OF WORK. Don't be like me and try to do this yourself while maintaining a 50+ hour work week. I'm stepping away from my work to a large degree this year in order to focus on this build. Wish me luck! 2vv7Bf1xBU8?si

How serious are you about it? Man, I'd love to check it out in person. We're practically neighbors. 😄

15k? Worth it. You'd use a liner, yeah? Waterproof coatings just ain't gonna work.

I did a "test run" with a shovel when I first started, just to see how much material I could move with an honest effort. It was laughable. What took me half a day with several breaks, the machine did in 5 minutes. And the tree roots... oh how satisfying watching those tree roots just pull right...

I paid over 9k after covid but they're like 6k last time I looked. You could get one, sell when done and make most of your money back.

Oh yeah, keeping the oval was out of the question for me. Rectangle it is. Easier of course but also opens up tons of space.

I see where he's coming from, but in the end it's a 4 ft tall wall, not an 8ft tall basement. Btw, go back to post #7 on this thread. His pool is massive, and the inspiration for me to take on this project. He did vertical rebar sparingly. While he does state he filled all cells, the cells with...

I dont think filling every cell is necessary. I'm only planning on filling the ones that will get vertical rebar, and that's every 3 or 4th hole. One thing to keep in mind is you need concrete even for polymer walls, they need to be locked in once installed. My old poly panels had moved all...

Hi! I'd love to help if I can. The two biggest pieces of advice I can give is 1)Use the "dry season" to your advantage. Once the summer afternoon storms come, you can forget about it. 2)If you're doing this alone, don't even attempt it while trying to work a full time job. I vastly...

Thanks for the kind words! I'll be back at it as soon as possible, and I'll make sure to document as much as possible when I do! :D

Hi! I'm alive. I haven't given an update because it's depressing. Tropical storm Debbie came through right before concrete was going down for the footing. It dropped 8-10 inches of rain here, in 2 days. The entire dig was ruined. Now we're in one of the rainiest September's on record, and well...

Alrighty, it's been a bit of time but I've been waiting for severe rain to come so I can see what effect it would have on my dig after I compacted a layer on gravel down. We had a heck of a drought there for a while but the rain has come...and BOY HOWDY has it come! The dig was thoroughly...