Demolition
Before we can begin building the pool, a certain amount of destruction is required. Specifically, we need to:
Demolish the red brick paving above the pool area.
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Building an automated water level maintainer for my green wall to prevent another fish apocalypse
Building an automatic water manager for a vertical garden wall.
Water-level Maintainer
Documenting the process
Installing a Mobius ActionCam to take periodic photographs of the site. We will assembled the stills into a time lapse video at the completion of the pool construction project.
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The autodidacts' era
It struck me recently that this endeavor would not have been remotely possible pre-Internet, or even pre-YouTube. The ability to track down tutorials, instructional videos, and professional forum discussions on topics as diverse as structural engineering to how to stop a wedding (I kid you not).
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Choosing a pool shell
Fiberglass pool shells come in a variety of shapes and sizes, but are broadly similar in their construction. They generally consist of a number of layers of fiberglass and other materials and a final “gelcoat” finishing layer that is the finished surface of the pool.
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Detailed design
Fiberglass pool or concrete pool? Concrete pools are built directly in the ground onsite. Concrete (or more often shotcrete) is set on a framework of steel reinforcement and then plastered or tiled.
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Testing the limits of online self-education
So I’m building a pool. More precisely, I’m building a pool, a deck, supporting retaining walls, storage cupboards, privacy shield, garden beds, and lighting,
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Building a solar float charger for the Prius 12v auxiliary battery
Toyota Prius - courtesey of Pawel Golsztajn I own a second generation Toyota Prius, and while it’s a great little car, it has one fatal flaw - the 12V auxiliary battery.
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