Pool Improvements

 The major work item this summer was to get the area around the pool ready for concreting (next year?) and then tiling (year after?). This involved leveling one area that was too high, laying drains, and infilling with 20 tons of grey stones.

The leveling took over half a day as the problem was not soil but shale. After half an hour of trying by habd we used the digger and I suspect if the digger hadn’t been there it would have taken days by hand.

Next job was the drains – installing 4 drains and links to the drainage from the terrace and garden.

 

 Shifting 20 tons of stone was accomplished with the digger:

 Drainage all covered:

 Job done and shown after the pergola was built:

 

There is a small area the other side of the pool cover where we ran out of stones but hey it looks good from this angle!