Making a swimming pool

A fortnight ago we decided that we could get a pool put into a corner of our backyard. Then at 7am on Tuesday, it all started happening!

First, we had a delivery of rebar from a big truck. This brought all of the children from the street out in their pyjamas to watch:

A little digger was delivered to our house on a great big black truck. The digger started picking up the huge rocks from our yard and stacking them neatly for us out the way:

The speedy bobcat zipped back and forth, taking up the turf.

The bobcat removed the top layer of soil which was taken to the tipper truck out the front.

The pool shape was laid out with string and then the digger started to dig out the soil and clay and pass it back for the bobcat to take out to the tipper truck.

We wondered how the digger would get out of such a deep hole. It pulled itself out and then reached back down into the hole to finish off the digging.

The digging went on until after it got dark whilst rebars were put into one side of the pool. We had a look in the hole!

The next day they built the rebar structure, fitted the pipes for the outlets and the skimmer box and the tubing for the light. They put gravel at the bottom of the pool under the rebar and put special seats underneath to support the bars on metal discs:

This morning, Isla had her sports day! Here she is doing the long jump and after winning the tug of war with her Eagles team:

After lunch, these trucks turned up outside:

and the pool sides and steps were filled with concrete:

 After a couple of hours, and a couple of truckloads of concrete, we've got the shell of a pool!