Are you driving the bobcat? FUN times!
Have you done the shovel work in the pool hole yet?
Kim
Have you done the shovel work in the pool hole yet?
Kim
2018: Fiberglass install uxbridge ointario
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Are you driving the bobcat? FUN times!
Have you done the shovel work in the pool hole yet?
Kim
No, thank God. Have a buddy doing it. I am a big horse. I need butter to get in that little skid steer. lol
Jason from River Pools! Those are the guys who did our pool. They are fantastic installers.
how many guys are lucky enough to have road gravel at the bottom of their excavation? lol
Tomorrow I will compact just for the heck of it. apply a non woven geotextile to the floor and walls. Then do my HPB base. I have 25 tons of HPB sitting on my street right now. Neighbours will love me. lol
Tomorrow I will compact just for the heck of it. apply a non woven geotextile to the floor and walls. Then do my HPB base. I have 25 tons of HPB sitting on my street right now. Neighbours will love me. lol
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The neighbors will make you pay with a BIG pool party when you are done!!! FUN TIMES!
Kim
Kim
lots of people around here have pools. living here 2 years now. not a single invite. I will have to repay the favor. lol
25 tons of HPB to move from the street to my back yard. I'll wait another 15 minutes then I'm firing up the skid steer. lol
25 tons of HPB to move from the street to my back yard. I'll wait another 15 minutes then I'm firing up the skid steer. lol
The things you learn when you look and listen! I would never even thought of that aspect of it! WOW!Kim
Man. it's been non stop go the last 2 days. Fighting frost, and time.
Got the base leveled out today. finished at 1pm and the pool showed up at 2.
30 minutes max to get it in position and according to my laser I am bang on. One corner is + 1/8" and the other 3 are +/- 0. can't ask for better than that given the tolerances with a fiberglass formed pool.
I am in a way better mental state compared to the first part of the week.
If anyone is wondering aboit the geotextile fabric......Money well spent imo to prevent migration from native soil into the voids of the crushed gravel.
Got the base leveled out today. finished at 1pm and the pool showed up at 2.
30 minutes max to get it in position and according to my laser I am bang on. One corner is + 1/8" and the other 3 are +/- 0. can't ask for better than that given the tolerances with a fiberglass formed pool.
I am in a way better mental state compared to the first part of the week.
If anyone is wondering aboit the geotextile fabric......Money well spent imo to prevent migration from native soil into the voids of the crushed gravel.
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That is SO close to being purrfect! WOW! You do good work.
So talk to me..........what is the blue tube with white "sock" coming off it?
Do I see you adding water to the pool? Will you also using "framing" to help the inside walls?
Will you put the gravel in by hand/shovel?
Kim
So talk to me..........what is the blue tube with white "sock" coming off it?
Do I see you adding water to the pool? Will you also using "framing" to help the inside walls?
Will you put the gravel in by hand/shovel?
Kim
That is SO close to being purrfect! WOW! You do good work.
So talk to me..........what is the blue tube with white "sock" coming off it?
Do I see you adding water to the pool? Will you also using "framing" to help the inside walls?
Will you put the gravel in by hand/shovel?
Kim
ok, so a fiberglass pool is no different that a boat hull. My pool will have a weeping tile around the parameter. That pipe with the sock on it, is weeping tile. Basically a 4” diameter flexible pipe that is perforated. The sock prevents silt from clogging the perforations. All the weeping tile will “tee” into that little pig tail I left hanging out. The green vertical pipe will be like a sump pit. Should I ever need to drain the pool, and the ground water is high......I can drop a pump down that green pipe and pump it out. If I didn’t remove the ground water, the empty pool would be displacing so much water it would want to pop out of the ground. It could lift the concrete deck with it. This can and has happened, I’ve seen pics.
The green pipe btw, will be cut once my grade is done. It won’t be sticking 3’ up like a sore thumb. Lol
I’ve added some water but not much...I did have to put salt in it to prevent freezing. The idea is you put water as you backfil with gravel. You don’t want to fill pool up without backfil and you don’t want to back fill an empty pool. You want those forces to work against each other. Although, these blue Hawaii pools are so well built I bet you could fill them up.
No framimg, just clear High performance bedding or 1/4” chip as some people call it.
Combination of wheelbarrow and machine to backfill.
We have a sump tube like that next to our new fiberglass pool - came in quite handy due to the amount of rain we've had this winter!
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First class job mate. Gonna be fun this summer
Thanks buddy.
Just a quick clip of crane action. My 19 year old nephew as camera man. lol.
Fiberglass pool / Crane into place - YouTube
Did he get any of it being set in?
Who is the guy in the orange vest (rope guider)?
Is that you in the brown?
LOL on the 19 yr old camera operator...camera went where his eyes went. He did a good job.
How close to the house did it get? Looks close due to angle
Kim
Who is the guy in the orange vest (rope guider)?
Is that you in the brown?
LOL on the 19 yr old camera operator...camera went where his eyes went. He did a good job.
How close to the house did it get? Looks close due to angle
Kim