Post #312641 by pariartspaul on Wed, Jun 13, 2007 9:09 AM

Well, lots of progress in the last couple of weeks! Yesterday we finished off the entire inside basin, and I laid all the flagstone around the edge...

This thing is built like a fortress...the entire basin and sides are SOLID reinforced concrete!! I had to keep ordering more and more concrete because my original 35 bags barely got us halfway around it. Here's how it's totalled up so far... We used 95 80lb bags of concrete mix plus 41 bags of 60 lbs mortar mix. It totals to 10,060 lbs of dry mix, or just over 5 tons! The concrete was definitely the most expensive part so far. But still the total cost for the whole thing so far is still under $1000.

So I have some black acrylic pool paint on order. I expect it this week sometime. I'm using the acrylic pool paint to color the underwater section. At this point I'm not concerned about leakage at all. So the next step is to finish off the waterfall sections and get them plumbed up. Then we have to paint it all and we'll be ready to fill it!