Bad ground conditions

We have just started a new installation in the Cognac area. The land is quite low lying and beside a stream - so we anticipated that it might be quite problematic.

And it is!

The top metre is filled ground, underlain by very soft clay with running water at the bottom of the fill. We are contracted to install a 1 metre deep hopper.

We have already decided that the pool floor will need to be in reinforced concrete, and we are now working out how to build it underwater!.

Joking aside we will install an underpool drain with a submersible pump to allow us to dewater the excavation and this will be left in place for the client to dewater the surrounding strata whenever he needs to empty the pool.

This is just another saga in a long list of installations where a kit type pool would either be impossible to install - or would fail during the first time that it is emptied.

We will let you know how we get on with this project next week.