Steel

That's the next step in the pool building process, steel. I am becoming quite educated with this whole pool thing, learning great new words and phrases like, steel schedule, gunite, and bond beam. I don't necessarily know what they mean, but I pretend I do! So the steel, that's where they climb into the big, muddy hole they dug a few days ago and place a bunch of re- bar (I think that what it is?) to make a grid like thing. It's pretty cool looking and fun to watch them hang from the side of the pool in the deep end trying to twist this stuff together without falling in! I found myself staring at them working again, and taking probably way too many pictures, but hey - when am I going to build another pool? Really? So, I figure what better way to put those pictures and hours of gawking to good use then to blog them for all to enjoy! Well, here you go - ENJOY!

Notice the big mud pit here in the deep end. They had to vacuum it out and then pour some concrete powder over it to soak up the water.

See the guy on the little ladder? He was quite talented at pulling that ladder around the side of the pool with his legs. The only time I saw him actually go down the ladder was when he was done!