Swimming Pool Project
Daily Journal of Photos of Excavation and Install
October 8, 2005 - Laying Out Template, Removal of Patio Pad and Levelling the Ground
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Laying template over old round pool outline and patio.
Picture shows where round pool
overlapped the patio which has to be removed.
Template as seen from deck above.
Round pool platform as seen from deck above.
Old patio as seen from deck above.
Backhoe begins removal of old pool forms.
Poised for first groundbreaking.
When they tried to lift the patio to break off a
piece, the entire slab pulled free of the house
and remained in one piece.
Old patio begins to be removed but it is full
of old rebar and very hard to break up.
More photos of patio removal ...
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Pieces are carried across back yard to opposite
corner and taken over hill to be buried later.
The following pictures show the tight squeeze
the backhoe had to thread between the
deck supports and the hillside.
Balancing the slab on the dozer.
Carefully moving forward along deck supports.
View from deck looking down on the
narrow space the bulldozer had to fit ...
.... same view continued.
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