To Lulu - success is having an in-ground swimming pool. So when we bought this house four years ago with a pool - I thought I had fulfilled my destiny. Not so - the pool had a plastic liner that was not changed in 18 years - and it started leaking in places that could not be repaired.
Lulu loves to swim - but it usually ended up as my job to keep the pool clean. It had a deep diving well that was a back breaking job to vacuum. So one of the few things I wanted in a pool - besides a corn field - was something that would make it easier to clean.
We decided on a pool that was 40 x 20 x 4 feet. With that depth - Lulu could still swim her laps - and I could cut the water capacity by about 40 percent. Also vacuuming would be much easier. At that depth - we could also play volleyball - badmitton - and basketball. Hopefully the pool would be easier to keep warm in the spring being shallower and holding less water.
In the photo above - the pool is really almost 6 feet deep. There will be almost a foot thick concrete bottom. They will also start building the rebar lattice birdcage in - before they pour the concrete. When done - the pool will be 4 feet deep with about 7 inches of tile and coping above the water level.
The pool will have a white stone coping around the top edge - then a border of 6 x 6 blue tiles. Lulu has recently added two waterfalls to the project - one on each side of the steps.
The project has been moving slowly - all the dirt removal and sand fill are being done by hand. Hopefully - we will be swimming by the middle of May. Then we can start working on our synchronized swimming routine.
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