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The screened deck takes shape

Posted on April 23, 2014February 18, 2017 by Ian C.

Another burst of work from the pool construction crews, and we have a great view now of how our finished, enclosed, screened pool and deck will look – the concrete columns and cross beams have been placed; with the rebar and concrete fill, this structure might be stronger than the house!
The finished structure is quite impressive! Here’s a few “during” pictures – amazing that this was all done by hand with no machine to lift the cross beams or pump the concrete!

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The next stage is applying a stucco finish to all this concrete, to match the house – and then I think we finally get the pavers laid for the deck …

Pool work slowdown

Posted on April 18, 2014February 18, 2017 by Ian C.

There’s been little progress for the last two weeks on our pool, sadly. A day or two of bad weather, and a few broken plans from Atlas Pools, and all we have different this weekend is a pile of bricks:

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Since the tiles two weeks ago, we have had the footings for the screen poured too, but that’s not particularly pretty or exciting!

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Hopefully next week we will see the screen columns erected, and get closer to having some pavers laid down!

A couple of wetlands videos

Posted on April 15, 2014February 18, 2017 by Ian C.

I created this recording last night of the frog, bird and insect sounds in the wetlands behind our home – tonight the frogs got much louder, don’t know what the trigger was but they were impressive (and presumably they’ll get louder still in the weeks ahead!):

I also took a video of the Great Blue Heron nest this past weekend, and happened to catch a parent feeding it’s young!

That young Heron is growing fast!