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I was really worried about the liner - i'd had it for almost one year sitting in the patio outside. Would some insect/rodent have chewed holes through it or maybe it had some terrible type of mould growing on it? But i knew that i had to get the equipment set up and the piping tested before i...

5. Piping lined-up to proposed location of the equipment pad. Some further trenching & filling was done after this pic was taken. 6. Shell screeded and plastered. Liner track installation in progress 7. Installation of the bullnose coping (burnt clay, very nice feel & look to it) 8. I...

So after more than a year since my last post - focusing on the house build, work and other life pressures - i finally got back to the pool build. We had already installed the piping and cast the concrete shell and received all the ordered kit (filter, pump, liner, valves, etc) by August last...

I know this is not a house building forum, so back to the pool itself: Pool was excavated (manually, by just two guys in just a couple of days!). And that's the entire data quota I have :( . Upgrading my membership to allow more posts didn't work as paypal just opened shop in Nigeria a...

So we started excavating the foundation trenches for the main house. And when the foundation walls and column starters were completed, we began excavating the pool to use the soil as the foundation filler The foundation was filled, flooded and rammed, and a foundation slab cast on it

Thanks Casey. Its actually almost complete - I just installed the liner track last and ordered a liner from pool products last weekend. I'm trying to upgrade to being a tfp supporter so that I can post a couple more pics to show how far we've come.

Hi Steve, Its an entirely new build - the tiny building in the lot had a tenant in it who had water supplied from the landlord's house. That supply was cut off once we took over possession. Sadly, municipal water supply is virtually non existent and so almost every one drills a borehole and...

First thing was to drill a borehole to get water for construction. The little soil heaps show the varying soil type at 10ft intervals. And get a submersible pump to deliver it to the surface. - - - Updated - - - Hi jblizzle, Thanks. Will check out the links. I discovered that if I...

From another angle - the lot being cleared. - - - Updated - - - Thanks mrcarcrazy. Wish I could steal your moniker... - - - Updated - - - The plan was to put the pool in the far left corner (just behind the truck). Unfortunately the banana tree had to go... - - - Updated - - - The...

Hi Everyone, Let me start by saying a big thank you to the entire TFP family - you guys (and girls) have inspired and guided me to the point where I feel like I could build pools for a living:wink: I promised a couple of months ago that I'd start a thread when construction of our pool starts...

Hello everyone, I've been a TFP "addict" for a couple of months now and its been a wonderful learning experience for me. I'm about to start building my first house and I've been ordered by DW to make sure there's a pool in there somewhere - temperatures here have been in the high 30's (celsius)...