Any chance we had of filling the pool in one shot in January was out of the question. For a start we could not find a big tanker to transport the water to our property, only small ones that were expensive. Using them would cost £400/$600 to fill the pool.
Another factor was that after two months of drought conditions the rainy season came in with a vengeance. Continual downpours bounced mud and stones into the pool, and it was clear that we had to proceed straight away with terracing the pool.
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| Terracing of pool and jacuzzi/spa |
The good news was that we were able to fill our 11,000 litre cistern from our well four times a day as there was so much water being fed from the aquifer. Also we were harnessing a lot of rainwater from our huge living room roof which we fed into the cistern.
We decided to add a jacuzzi/spa during the work, which we would later tile with blue/green mosaic tiles to break up the large expanses of grey concrete.
Once the terracing was completed around the pool we could start to fill it - a complete cistern-full every 5 days. It was a slow process but as the pool filled we were able to swim at the deep end.
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| Filling the pool little by little |
Once the terracing was completed around the pool we could start to fill it - a complete cistern-full every 5 days. It was a slow process but as the pool filled we were able to swim at the deep end.
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