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coombsie66 · 08-10-2004, 04:18 PM

Right, i thought i'd post up the story so far of what has been my summer project this year, in case you couldnt guess from the title its building a pool! More specificaly a 32 x 16' liner pool with a hopper deep end and a shallow end.
Anyways enuf of the details for the minute, here's sum heavy machinery pics

Before, with set out lines for the dig:

Digging, it started as good fun raggin a 6 tonne 4wd dumper around (they'll climb anything!!) but after about 100 tonnes shifted it rapidly turned to boredom!!:

Big jump here, as photobucket doesnt seem to be letting me upload any more pics at the moment!!!? Anyway, after the rough dig, the foundation for the pool walls were shuttered, and poured and then the walls were built on top 4'9" tall from 4" concrete blocks on their flat. The walls were then rendered with sand and cement, the roman end steps are preformed fibreglass, (and fookin expensive!) they were tied into the walls as they were being built up and concrete poured behind them to secure solidly in place.
The shallow end floor was then screeded with soft sand and cement, and the deep end square in the centre was also screeded, after the main drain was set up in it (pain in the arse and a lot of manual digging involved!).

Then the final deep end hopper panels were screeded, these were bloody tricky!

The pool is further on from this point, but as i said photobucket is being difficult so i shall wait till another evening to update with the latest pics!

To those still reading and not bored stiff, i hope you like my 'little project' and i shall update untill completion, which i hope is in the near future so i can get some usage before i go back to uni!!!!!!!

08-10-2004, 04:24 PM

cool little project.. at least it will be once you're using it

sameerrao · 08-10-2004, 04:52 PM

Good work there! With my skills :roll: I wouldnt know where to start from...

yg60m · 08-10-2004, 05:04 PM

Very impressive mate, nice work

Jabba · 08-10-2004, 05:27 PM

Excellent thread and pictures....feel free to use the JW gallery for your picture uploads...do you want me to make this a sticky thread for you coombsie ?

TransAm · 08-10-2004, 05:30 PM

Nice work coombsie66

I'm from Somerset, I went to Wellington School. Whereabouts in the county are you based?

yg60m · 08-10-2004, 05:33 PM

BTW Jabba@home, now you should maybe update your avatar to "ADSL King"

Jabba · 08-10-2004, 05:38 PM

True...once I start uploadng like an ADSL king.

gis · 08-10-2004, 06:07 PM

^^^ hey now now jabba,there is only ONE 56k modem king

anyway nice thread about your project coombsie.it should be awesome when its finished which i bet your hoping for everyday,lol

Stikz · 08-10-2004, 10:09 PM

thats amazing bro. Did you do all the work yourself?

blinkmeat · 08-10-2004, 10:17 PM

Cool duder, I want to drive that mini dump-truck over some jumps, that thing looks indestructable!

IgotWRXed · 08-11-2004, 12:56 AM

holy shit if you did that all by yourself. wow you have an amazing set of skills.

Zonda11 · 08-11-2004, 02:20 AM

Lookn nice!

possessed_beaver · 08-11-2004, 02:33 AM

so from my understanding, you have a drain at the bottom of the pool, where does it drain the water away to?

but nice pool, i like how there is shallow then there is like the rest of it thats deap,
as a pose to pools that just slowley slope down.

coombsie66 · 08-11-2004, 06:58 AM

Bloody hell! Cheers for the replies guys, sorry i wasnt on last night, internet fucked up (as usuall!)
To answer some questions, yeah it would be great to have this as a sticky jabba, thanks!
Transam2001: Fuckin hell! Small world! Im from ilminster, i went to taunton school, so used to play you guys at cricket, rugby etc, and i know people from wellington school!
Stikz: I have to admit that i did not do the bricklaying, or the rendering or the screeding! lol

ops: Unfortunately my skills arnt that far ranging (yet) but i set everything out, and concreted the foundations, dug out most of it, and with my dad am the foreman of the job pretty much.
Possesed_beaver: Yeah sorry my comment of the main drain is rather random!
Basically, for the filtered pool you have 2 inlet return jets to teh pool which are built in either side of the steps, these return the clean heated water to the pool under high pressure (3 bar i think).
Then to take water from the pool into the filter system is a series of drains; 2 surface skimmers which filter surface debris, a main drain at the deepest point in the pool to keep the currents in the pool flowing and therefore the temp distribution even, and a low suction drain in the wall above the main drain (incase the main drain becomes blocked so you dont starve the system).

I shall upload a few more pics tonight after ive finished working, we are building the 'sunken pump house' walls at the moment! (well the brick layer is!)

Cheers