Actually it wasn't a decision taken lightly but the salesman (who like any salesman knew how to convince us) persuaded us it was just like building with Lego.
Having brought our kids up on Lego, we are pretty expert by now so naturally we thought it would be a breeze.
So we signed on the bottom line.
Before we knew it, there were what seemed like a million bits of Lego piled high in our garage and we were wondering where to start. Well after a lot of dithering and dissecting of the Lego manual, we are now at the stage when we have destroyed the garden and filled it with a huge 8x6 meter hole. Well a nice man called Mr Fernandez did it for us.
Guess what? The hole immediately filled up with water. Instant swimming pool, yeah! Job done.
Actually not so yeah when it wouldn't go away and the only solution was to dig further and to put in a so called 'French drain'. So using our kids as child labour yet again (well they are happy as it helps them earn their summer pocket money) we dug and shoveled and sweated and swore (quietly) until we had what we hope is the drain of all drains.
So far so good.
Next job was slotting together the panels, which look like the sides of a tin can. That is where the similarity ends though as they weigh a ton. The manual writer who said they needed 2 people to slot them together, had obviously not built a pool like this before.Anyway suffice to say, the tin can is taking shape nicely. The steps are in (precariously balanced on bricks for now), everything is measured and double measured (and triple) to make sure it is all horizontal and vertical down to the last millimeter and we are feeling pretty chuffed with ourselves.
By my calculations, it has taken us 10 days of labour to get to this point. We had a break recently as Bill was in Nigeria (not on holiday!). We also had a few workers strikes and slackers.....but who can blame them.
More to Follow.......when the workers strike is over.....
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