There has been an enormous delay thanks to Stradal, the factory that makes the tiles that are placed around the pool. The ones that are to be placed against the pool are round, and the factory has been lying to us, making false promises, and eventually the local distributor had enough and sent one of his own trucks at his own expense to get the stones. As companies go, this one is rock bottom, soulless and not to be trusted.

We didn't have a choice, since they have a virtual monopoly in France. The whole affair has been like this for 2 months, and everything was held up, since the tiles need to be placed before they can continue with the pool.

Anyway, they arrived last Friday, and the lads have been busy placing them


Here you can see how far they are placing them.


You can see that they have also started putting in the joints.

.. and here's the progress on the garden:



Next week Thursday they start putting in the liner, and the week after that the shelter.