I’m very happy with my waterfall – it pumps water directly from the heat pump, so gives you a warm massage!

Finally – after 6 months hard work, it is ready – first holiday makers arrive tomorrow. I am very happy with the end result!        

No blogging for a while now – I’ve been so busy. To cut a long story short, I had some problems with my pool supplier and so had to go and find someone else who could finish the job for me. We had to redo the concrete bottom [...]

The pool cover is now finished. When I first started to think about a cover for the pool, I thought that I would buy a telescopic cover that opened up by pushing back ever decreasing sizes of roof and walls so that there was an open-air pool to [...]

The roof is on and I’ve just finished laying the floorboards – all that’s left to do is paint it – this is a job that I’m going to give to my parents when they come on holiday in two weeks time! Thanks Mum and Dad x   [...]

The Pool house construction started today – went up really quickly – just the roof to go on tomorrow. One side of the house will be a changing room (the larger side) and the other side will be the pump/filter/chemical area.        

The paving slabs are now all laid (hooray!) Now for another time consuming job – I have to grout all the gaps in between. For those of you who have grouted tiles, this is nothing like the same job – the joints are 10mm and the stones are [...]

Today I finished installing the margelles, or edging stones for the pool. It has taken me four days of hard slog – I had to do it on my own because I am known as Bonnie Tiler here and so everyone thought they’d leave it to the expert [...]

It has been quiet here for a while, but that does not mean that we haven’t been working. It has taken several days with lots of headscratching and shovelling to get the terrasse ready for concreting. The problem was that we needed a slope o…n each side of [...]