Work is currently underway on the pool and we've commenced just in time to ensure we are doing some laps and cooling off over the Christmas holiday period. To be honest we thought we had plenty of time to construct a pool but have been advised we need to allow 10-12 weeks, especially at this time of the year as everyone wants to be in their pool for Christmas.
Here's our vision for the pool and surrounding area .. (click images to enlarge)
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| View from Sun Loungers - looking down towards the water feature. The paving will be granite (mushroom colour) with a 100mm down turn edge. |
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| Looking back towards the house, with the water feature in motion. |
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| A new timber deck will be constructed, running the length of the house from the lounge to the far end, which has been allocated for a couple of Sun Loungers |
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| A frameless pool fence will be erected to keep little children out, or in our case a little puppy by the name of Boston. |
To be able to achieve this design we have now removed the rear timber fence to reclaim valuable space that was not being utilised (our property line extended 3m beyond the back fence). As the back of the property has quite a steep drop off, the back edge of the pool will be raised out of the ground creating a sense of a zero edge pool. By having the pool 1.2m above the ground will also mean we won't have to construct a pool fence along this side, instead we will landscape, building on the existing mature trees already in place.
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| The entire back fence to be demolished - to reclaim approx 90m2 of land currently being under-utilised. |
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| All paving will be raised and recycled throughout the project to build a fire pit and water feature. |
The pool will be 10m x 3.9m - a size that seemed appropriate on drawings, in reality it's looking quite big which is not a bad thing. Below are some images from excavation day.
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| Nice work Ron! |
The next stage is drilling the piers and forming up the pool ready for the concrete pour.
