Recent content by ViennaTom

Well still many things only exist in my imagination by now ;-) I plan to make the steps with a thick flat flange about 300x60x8-10mm with an L shaped frame welded on it. Opposite to the drawing the frame will sit a little further down app. at the height of the screws so force will 'tear' at the...

Hi Kim, Well it is an overflow pool so when we jump into the pool or it is raining the water will be collected in the surge tank. I will run two independent pumps to circulate the water either from the base outlet or the surge tank depending on water levels and temperature. On hot days the water...

Just calculated the weight of the 1" tiles for the steps - 9kg for each step, 26kg for the platform, 21kg for each bench. The V2A frames where the tiles will be laid into will be made of 10mm flange side and 4mm V2A steel i guess but I will have them done as welding is not my main skill ;-)

Well the steps and benches are supposed to look like on the picture below. Usually they are sold with metal pools where the steps are welded to the skin but I think my construction should also be fine. The parts in the concrete are 10mm thick so will be the counterpart on the steps with V2A...

Yes :D I was thinking this might ease cleaning both manually as well as by a pool robot. I will have a 2% gradient towards the outlet both the long and the narrow side to ease cleaning already but having round edges might also be a good idea and might event ease doing the lining in the corners.

"drawing" of how I want to build the gutters around. At the ends of the gutters I use T-pieces (as in picture) and L-pieces at the corners and a T-piece in the middle on the other side. The thin metal mesh shall stiffen the final 4cm concrete rand (together with resin additives) and the dowels...

Yes it is DIY but I had two helpers when filling the concrete for the base and the walls and will need more help when preparing the shell for the surrounding gutter. The water is collected by three 160mm pipes leading to the surge tank one comes from the middle of the right side (outside the...