Building a swimming pool in Africa.

[Stumpy]

Well the pool project seems to be progressing as are the odd cracks about barbed wire

And Backspit. Intex above ground pools are absolute crap and fall apart in just a few years. They are cheap for a reason.

[DrWilly]

The hole is getting deeper, I’m wondering why it will take 4 weeks to build. This is only day 4.

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try again in that pic.

[baldrick]

is that tree a mango or lychee - your red dirt looks good

[DrWilly]

That one is a mango, to the left of it is a mini guava. We have two mango trees, they produce like crazy for a month or two. One is a variety that produces large and slight tart mangoes, the other fibrous but very sweet mangoes.

[DrWilly]

Well the pool project seems to be progressing as are the odd cracks about barbed wire

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Yeah, who ever though a simple swimming pool construction thread would attract all this angst?

[Joe 90]

The best way to get rid of all that dirt it to dig another hole and put it in that!

[DrWilly]

Someone doesn’t like swimming pool construction threads… rated 1 star… whatever will do?

[Joe 90]

your red dirt looks good

KW could make some traditional outbuildings with that lovely red dirt...

[Norton]

Who was the poster who made a thread with his build of a pool with a natural filtration system ? Maybe 15 years ago .

Think was Dr Andy but not sure. Shack in the Jungle thread.

[DrWilly]

KW could make some traditional outbuildings with that lovely red dirt...

It certainly is fecund.

Think was Dr Andy but not sure.

Yes, it was him.

[Backspin]

Well the pool project seems to be progressing as are the odd cracks about barbed wire

And Backspit. Intex above ground pools are absolute crap and fall apart in just a few years. They are cheap for a reason.

A $3000-$5000 Intex pool will go a hell of a lot further than a $300 special at Walmart is all that I was saying. Provided competent adults assemble and maintain it. My cousins had a big one in the 90's and they got a lot of miles out of it.

[bsnub]

A $3000-$5000 Intex pool

A waste of fucking money, buy once cry once.

[Joe 90]

A waste of fucking money, buy once cry once.

Did you wake up in your shallow end pool of piss Snubbles?

[bsnub]

Did you wake up in your shallow end pool of piss Snubbles?

I live between two lakes, I do not need a fucking pool.

[BLD]

Think was Dr Andy but not sure. Shack in the Jungle thread.

could of been Klondike?

[aging one]

The guy who did the "eco/natural" pool was Russian or eastern European, he got into the political threads and flounced.

[bsnub]

The guy who did the "eco/natural" pool was Russian or eastern European

Klondyke.

Pool Salaa D-I-Y

[aging one]

Thanks BLD, great minds think alike.

A swimming pool in Thailand – so easy

[bsnub]

Thanks BLD, great minds think alike.

He also did a sauna one as well...

Sauna DIY

[malmomike77]

I do notneed a fucking pool.

JPPR has one by his bar

[DrWilly]

you have really no kangaroo tax. A water shortage in Africa? And you know this how? Anyway you just keep doing your bit for water conservation by only having the ab nam once a week Wether
You need it or not. Hopefully you are enjoying nice weather.

To be fair, Tax is partially correct. Most of Southern Africa (Zim, Zam, Malawi, Botswana, & Angola) is in the middle of a large drought. However, NASA are predicting relief later this year and next.

Although there may be no relief on the horizon for crop production in the near term, next year may have more favorable conditions. The April

ENSO forecast indicates that there is an 85 percent likelihood of a La Niña developing in late 2024 and early 2025, which is often associated with above-normal precipitation and normal or above-normal maize yields in southern Africa

Severe Drought in Southern Africa

[david44]

Good luck with it , look forward to more pictures once done.
What's your choice of pump and filtration?
I imagine plenty of Chinese stuff for sale in your "belt and road" region of Africa
Any good Chinese food, the best I ever had despite a year in China nd living in S Francisco China town for a month was in of all places Calcutta!

[DrWilly]

I imagine plenty of Chinese stuff for sale in your "belt and road" region of Africa
Any good Chinese food, the best I ever had despite a year in China nd living in S Francisco China town for a month was in of all places Calcutta!

The is a significant Chinese population in most southern African countries, and that means Chinese businesses, Chinese NGOs, China town markets, Chinese casinos and Chinese restaurants. Might be an idea for a thread, but not sure if I can be bothered with the inevitable ‘fucking chinks at it again’ brigade.

[taxexile]

I live between two lakes, I do not need a fucking pool.

its gasworks park, seattle.

only you americans could use the ugly rusting hulk of an abandoned gasworks as the main feature of a city park.

that lake must have more chemical seepage in it than the 3rd world water in willys paddling pool.

[bsnub]

its gasworks park, seattle.

No it is not. Close but nope.

that lake must have more chemical seepage in it than the 3rd world water in willys paddling pool.

That has not been a functional gasworks in decades. There are no pollution issues in that lake at all, nice try though, and the water in that lake is snow melt that comes directly off the Cascade mountain range. About as clean as it gets.