Excavation – Instructions variant 1

• Dig a hole 40 cm longer, 40 cm wider, and 30 cm deeper than the pool’s dimensions.
• Cover the entire bottom with clean, washed drainage gravel with a granulation of 8-16 mm. The gravel layer should be 10 cm thick.
• Lay drainage pipes around the entire bottom and connect them to the drainage pit. NOTE! The drainage pipes must be wrapped in geotextile fabric and evenly distributed in the previously laid drainage gravel around the entire bottom. (The drainage pipes should be laid on top of the gravel and covered with it.).
• The drainage pipes placed in the rubble are connected to the drainage pit, which is placed in one corner of the trench (the drainage pipes should slope down towards the drainage pit). A submersible/drainage pump should be placed in the drainage pit. The drainage pump will pump out the drainage water collected in the well.
• The insulated water pipe from the submersible pump must be connected to a storm or sewer pipe.
• Spread a fleece fabric over the entire bottom of the pool over the rubble.
• Pour 10 cm of a dry sand-cement mix with a 4:1 ratio, moisten it with water, and compact it thoroughly with a compactor.
• Spread 10 cm of Styrofoam or XPS 200 polystyrene.
• Check that everything is level.
• Lift the pool using a crane and place it in the trench on a properly prepared base.
• Place concrete blocks under the second step of the pool (measured from the top of the pool) to support the steps and gently raise them.
• Fill the pool with 30 cm of water. Begin backfilling the pool with a dry sand-cement mix with a 10:1 ratio around the pool, up to the level of the water. NOTE! The 10:1 sand-cement mix should be spread so that the walls and each step are completely covered, leaving no gaps. It’s crucial to thoroughly backfill the steps. The steps must be thoroughly backfilled. Then, moisten the mix with water and tamp it down thoroughly.
• Refill the pool with 30 cm of water and backfill the pool with the 10:1 sand-cement mix, up to the level of the water. Repeat this process until the skimmer and nozzles are level.
• Begin gluing the hoses (the hose to the skimmer and the hose to the nozzles connected with a T-connector).
• Insulate the hoses with foam insulation.
• Backfill the skimmer, nozzles, and lights with only sand, no cement.
• Continue pouring water into the pool until the skimmer is halfway up.
• Fill the pool with the sand-cement mix around the pool.

Installing the pool pit:

• At a distance of 75 cm to 100 cm behind the pool, dig a pit for the pit.
• The pit should be 20 cm longer, 20 cm wider, and 10 cm deeper than the pit dimensions.
• Dig the pit so that the pit entrance is at the same level as the pool.
• Level the ground with a 4:1 sand-cement mix. The mix layer should be 10 cm thick.
• Lay the drainage pipes around the pit and connect them to the existing drainage pit.
  NOTE!
  – Drainage pipes should be laid with a slope towards the pit!
  – Drainage pipes should be wrapped in pipe lagging!
  – Drainage pipes should be placed on top of drainage stones and covered with them!
• Place the pit in the trench.
• Backfill the manhole with a 10:1 sand-cement mixture.

Happy work!