It's Been a Great Week!

Well it is official this has been a great week!

I finally completed my Motorcycle training and assessment with HART and have landed employment with Australia Post as a Motorcycle Postal Delivery Officer! Very happy and thoroughly looking forward to my first day of work on Monday the 25th of March! The girls are excited about Dad being a Postie as well.

The Australia Post induction is one of the most comprehensive and interesting that I have been through. It was a very worth while three days, interesting and engaging! The motorcycle training and assessment was also rigorous, educational and comprehensive. It is a pleasing way to start employment with a new company.

Good news with our pool construction as well!

Form work finished

LED lights in place

Pipe work and skimmer box in as well.

Once the form work was finally completed only bad weather could have prevented the concrete spray from going ahead. Initially booked in for Thursday, a small delay with the form work meant it wasn't sprayed until Friday.

I came home from the motorcycle training to a freshly sprayed pool. It looks fantastic, I am really pleased and you can finally see how the design will allow us to look unobstructed into the bush background from the pool.

The deep middle is very deep

The pool was designed to be deep in the middle at 1.8m and 1.2m at each end. In the end the issues with excavation have given us a pool that is closer to 2.0m in the middle and 1.2m at one end and 1.4m at the other. No big deal, shouldn't affect the use of the pool at all.

Wetting the structural decks for paving

Wetting a green pool in warm weather is crucial to stop cracking, the heat coming from the curing concrete was incredible. It will need a drink three times a day for the next couple of days.

Temp fence spoils the view

The temp fence spoils the view across the pool and feature wall with the bush in the background, we need to pick tiles and pavers for the pool and decide on fencing for the three sides that require pool fencing, no fence is required across the back wall, giving us uninterrupted views from the pool.

Shallow each end

This photo shows the step for sitting on and drinking booze, and the step below and off to the side for Rosie to stand on with her head above water.

The step in the pool.

Another view of the pool with the sitting step in the foreground.

No not filling the pool yet!

Skimmer box off to my right. The feature wall about 350mm above the water level to stop the kids climbing on it and falling out over the back edge of the pool and into the abyss. Not sure how the Mango and Lemon trees will cope with the concrete over spray, I will have a go at rinsing it off the leaves tomorrow.

The formwork comes off in about a week, the excavator then returns to finish the earth works, then tiling and lining with pebbles a week later, then fencing and filling. Should be ready to swim in by the end of April. We are hoping against hope that the solar heating gives us a couple of weeks of swimming before winter sets in, fingers crossed. I will need to do some landscaping and turf work so hopefully I can get all of it completed in the cooler months to have it done and dusted ready for September and the start of the warmer weather.

Won't be much to report on pool wise next week but I will give an update of my first few days at work and report on our visitors for the Easter break. Can't wait.