We wanted to install an
Endless Pool
in our backyard. An Endless Pool is a 7 x 14 pool where you can swim or exercise against the current. By
installing a "deep end", you can do stand up exercises - such as those
I did after wrecking my knee.
After a ridiculous bid for the concrete work alone, we forged on by ourselves - without a contractor. We have hired professionals to move the air conditioning unit and upgrade the electrical service. We hired a coworker (Chip) for heavy work.
The project started out small, but grew. We decided to build tall planter beds to hold the excavated earth (and allow stand up gardening), remove the concrete that already existed in the backyard, pour new concrete, install the pool, put a deck around the pool, put a sunroom over the sunroom and most of the deck, build a shed to hold the pool equipment, and finally, landscape. See photos below of the progress (started in September 2000):
- The plans
- Raised bed construction
- Site preparation - removing concrete the hard way
- Site preparation - removing concrete the easy way
- Deep end forms and concrete (10/28/2000)
- French drain and main pad forms (Weekends 11/12 and 11/19/2000)
- Final concrete preparation (11/22/2000)
- Assembling the Steel Panels and Anchoring (12/16-17/2000)
- Building the Surrounding Deck (Weekends from 12/31/2001 through 1/13-15/2001)
- Assembling the SunPorch Sunroom, Part 1 (1/20-22/2001)
- Assembling the SunPorch Sunroom, Part 2 (1/27-28/2001)
- Filling the Pool! (2/3-4/2001)
- Plumbing the Hydrotherapy Jets/Sunroom Windows (2/10-11/2001)
- Building the Mechanicals Shed (2/18/2001)
- Building the Mechanicals Shed, Part 2 (2/24-25/2001)
- Finishing the Plumbing/Electrical and Filling the Pool (3/10-11/2001)
- More finish work and we are SWIMMING! (3/23-24/2001)
- Action Shots (3/27/2001)
- Final Update (3/8/2003)
mcdunn
Saturday, October 11, 2003 06:22:32 PM