Today is the shotcrete pour. A high-pressure spray of fibre-reinforced concrete that bonds around the steel cage and creates a seamless, watertight structure. You can see the crew working methodically along the walls, building up layers and trimming back flush with screed bars for a laser-level finish.
A Volvo mixer kept fresh concrete flowing to the pump. The dense reinforcement in the base – twin mats of 16 mm bar tied at 150 mm centres – ties into vertical starter bars, ensuring the pool floor and walls cure as one monolithic shell capable of resisting hydrostatic pressure.
With the primary structure in place, we’ll let the shotcrete cure before installing the waterproof render, pool fittings and insulated back-fill. Mechanical-plant trenches are already roughed-in, so the filtration and spa-heater lines can follow immediately.
Check back soon as we drop the pool surround and begin tiling the spa suite – the transformation is about to accelerate!
