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The Pool Construction - Day 932837
Thursday 17th June, 2010
By: Mike Werner
Location: Normandy, France
Category:  House 
 

We're almost there. Today a liner specialist arrived with the pool builder. He was contracted by the pool company since he was a big specialist in putting up armed liner.

After coffee, they set off to clean the pool from the rain water and dirt & leaves that had flown in.
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Then they set rolls of armed liner on the ground, and...
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drilled holes in the concrete bottom and placed the liner. Then...
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they placed the next roll of liner onto top of the first one, and...
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with a sort of electric hair-dryer running on turbo and steroids, melted the PVC onto each other, and using a small roller, "glued" the two pieces together.
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After a whole day, everything was melted and glued into place...
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...and at 18:00 water was let in (using the hose since the filters are going to be put to work only tomorrow).
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Next week Friday, the shelter arrives, so until then, the water will be dirty with leaves, since it's windy here.