DIGGING A SWIMMING POOL NOW? 

Keep at it Tim, bet the health and safety crowd don’t blow their noses without a risk assessment and a method statement. Your girls will grow having the best childhood ever and when they’re parents themselves will tell their children what a fantastic time they had. I hope you paid Rosa well because with a gorgeous face like that and the looks she can give she’ll make a brilliant actress. Fabulous family.

Working with your daughter is awesome. I know they are the best memories with my dad. Now I also do projects with my daughter (also a read head, lol) It’s the best.

😂😂😂 best video to date, Rosa is a RU-vid star in the making. “ Pool is 4 x 4 !!!” 😂

Robin Clevit did a video of his pool the other week and his plant room was very small and simple to use. Worth a look Tim.

Ignore the complainers Tim, it's great that you are allowing your kids to be kids.

Adorable father daughter time, but I feel your pain Tim 😂

Your doing a great job Tim . The kids are safe and your responsible parents well done. 👍😊

Looking good guys and well done to Rosa for her hard work too.❤

Robin Clevett has to be your inspiration Tim, his Garden room is amazing and the Pool well thought out and executed.

Omg!!! Rosa is the best. She was trying work you hard for that money 🤣😂. I used to use the move on my dad all the time.

Good job social media wasn’t around when my Dad held me by the ankles and lowered me down the main drains to see if I could see a blockage 🤣

Great family memories to look back on! Wish I lived closer would love to come and help out.

Cheapest way is a reinforced concrete slab and 9” hollow concrete blocks filled with concrete and re-bar… Last pool I dug was in 2017 down in doddongton, cambs, it’s still not finished as they realised the cost as soon as we dug 250t of earth out and poured 48 cube of concrete just for foundations….

Would really like to see an ICF pool. Hardly any videos out there especially in the UK

Tims hyped ... and so he should be ... great stuff !

For the pool I would suggest laying out a set of stairs about a meter wide into the design, which means that next to it you can make a flat loungy space for the length of the stairs where you can sit/lie on and still have your head above water,or you can corner it off for a hottub/whirlpool construction.

Rosa has the technique to extract money from her dad, what a look... She reminds me of a certain cat 🤣

Lovely staff you have

I would have loved to have helped you dig that as a kid. Like a big adventure! Failing the pool not happening, I still reckon you could make a small skate park out of plywood, or (once it's shored up), it could be a cinema space! That said a pool would be awesome but I understand the running costs aren't cheap! PS - Rosa's 'Bambi eyes' are 😂👌🏼 And she's obviously been taking money lessons from Eden!

Hi Tim, I don't know about pools, but I have built my own pond. A lot of the stuff used on ponds, is actually designed for pools. Before pouring in the concrete base, you will want to first fix the bottom drains. All the pipework is just solvent weld pressure pipe, the same principle as waste pipe, except the wall thickness is thicker.

The little’n will be a millionaire some day..😂

Brilliant episode making lovely memories for the children ~ Rosa stole the show lovely

You certainly getting good at digger driving. The flipping of the large concrete slab very professional 👍🏻

Always be careful what you ask for because you just might get it!

Tim this is such a great opportunity, Virtu solar thermal pvt to heat it and then use it as a massive thermal mass for heating the rest of the house through ventilation with heat recovery. Ooooh so many options! ICFs are great, we built our own extension out of them and can't wait to do a full build with it.

Lovely to see you and Rosa 'working' together, and what a great effort from Eden 👏🏼

Salt water pools are now very common - they effectively maintain an appropriate level of protection automatically and you won’t have the overwhelming chlorine smell.

some good progress mate and your connection with your kids is great to see .well done

FYI that's a great idea, kids and you will love it. One thing use glued fittings and do external drain so you can empty it or send back wash into drain. Also heat pump swimming pool heaters are getting cheaper. I'm no expert but had good experience with in ground pools

Another great application of ground source heat pump for heating :-) and you’ve got the space!

The last large floor we did sub-grade for, the Province had recently changed some building/labour regulations after an industrial incident involving a *massive* warehouse (measure in acres, not square meters) where there was an issue with exhaust fumes and lack of oxygen. Despite having 2 out of 4 walls being overhead doors the whole length, and open, concrete trucks were not allowed to drive inside to do the pour, they had to run chutes in as far was they could go, which then required buggies to move material to the farthest corners. A huge pain. Not sure if they’ve relaxed the requirements or made allowance for natural ventilation. It’s been Quite Some Time since I was involved in a project of that scope. Certainly makes the whole project easier to plan and execute when you can move gear unhindered in the workspace. I’ll note that things like gravel trucks, diggers, loaders, and tractors could still operate without restriction… the new regs were strictly for concrete operations.

Tim, I think you and the family are doing an amazing thing. I love watching progress, been watching you since the very early days of the channel. It’s inspirational and exciting. It makes me laugh that some people think you wouldnt care for your kids. Letting them play in a big hole is great fun. What a fantastic experience and journey we all to be on together, God bless you guys .

Don't forget to put a drain pipe that you can connect a pump to - good for fire protection, pool cleaning, etc... Nice job so far!

Robin Clevet has just done an in depth video about his pool and all the tech. Might be of some use to you :)

Rosa worked very hard, I hope management at least paid her a quiddy. ❤😊

Dad, what number is it though 😂 love it…😊

Cue Jeffery throwing himself into the hole 😂

Personally I would use salt water pool with a chlorinator. They are kinder eyes and skin and easier to maintain.

Hi Tim great content as usual, Robin Clevet recently produced a detailed video regarding his pool, might be worth a look.😊

Banksy; eat your heart out! Great to see Rosa already associates hard work with reward……

Never trust soil to remain stable, especially when surcharged with machinery and spoil heaps. But safe now it's fenced off. Learn this the easy way and not the hard way.

As you seem to have got a swimming pool you didn't expect I watched Robert Llewellyn's Fully Charged Show video title "Can you HEAT & POWER a big house with RENEWABLES?" It shows a house that uses its swimming pool as an overflow heat store. Maybe something to consider as a fringe benefit. I'd add the link but youtube doesn't like it.

If you're needing somewhere to put all that sub base, you'd be more than welcome to dump a couple of tons outside my workshop 😁

Check out Robin Clevit's video on his pool build and plant room that he posted last week. It's got lots of detaill and ideas.

She's a rebel😂😂😂

Re: Hole in the ground. My only comment: Is it big enough? Only one chance to get it right. I think I'd make it longer.

Look at ICF… Nudura offers forms with one side insulated (which will be helpful with warming costs) and the other is what you’d have as interior facing side/no foam. RU-vid channel Cutting Edge Hones… the guy knows a lot about ICF and uses it exclusively for pools.

would an indoor koi pond be cheaper to run as opposed to a swimming pool ?

I’d make it a bit deeper mate about 1.8m so you can dive in. Its only 30cm more digging which will also you an 8inch pad underneath

I wonder what level the water table is at? It could be you get a pool before you know it! 😀

Genvex might be a good idea to fix humidity and save on the heating.

Im sure Mr Clevett could advise, having just completed his….

Natural pool? David Pagan Butler 🌷🌻🌷 A pool without chemicals ❤

Ah you've GOT to get it done sooner rather than later....those kids are growing up fast! What about a shout out for swimming pool installers who'd just LOVE to have you build one of their pools? Best advertisement they could buy really.

An indoor swimming pool is an excellent heat trap.

I dug my pool with a shovel and it took me a few weeks. That's much faster with a digger!

my thoughts are.... I wish I didn't have to wait two years to see it get built. x

Tim, your kids are lovely, but I do hope you are building a soundproof man cave somewhere because by the time you have finished the build they will be getting to be teenagers ! 4 women under one roof !!! good luck 😂😂

Is there room for a super car garage also..? You are getting in to this RU-vid life 😂

could always turn it into a wine cellar 8-)

The look Rosa gave you when you said no to some money made me feel like I needed to get my wallet out 🙈

They also say don't work with kids and animals. Well if you want to be productive, but if you want people to go ahhh, then you must.

Think you could do with a bigger machine tim!😊

I'm not sure if this is a 'thing' but is there scope for using the heated water in the pool as a 'heat reservoir' for the space heating in the rest of the house and pumping the water around the underfloor loops and radiators (assuming that's what you are installing)?

Why do I feel your wife gives you look at the start of the video! 😂

Hope that hole doesn't get in the way for everything to come, any indoor scaffolding etc might be an issue?

Indoor trampoline room until you can afford the pool build?

Are you going to use solar coils to help heat your pool, as it’s free heat from the sun and there’s quite s few vids on RU-vid to help.

I keep on watching the same type of content of you moving rubble about a cow shed.

Have you watched any videos on underground air conditioning. It might help with your air filtration costs.

I could see Rosa getting paint on her school uniform and that would not impress mum! Could you use the pool water to heat the house?

People who complain about what other people do with their kids are usually people with no kids, people with no lives or people with kids who now hate them. Ignore the know it all know nothings.

"I should of used a concrete block" 😂😂

you could just have it as an indoor pond?

The parent’s comments at the end of the video made me laugh. As if you had to justify that. Did you also have to look into child labour laws since your youngest held a tape measure?! Very envious of the project you are undertaking. Great videos as always.

great video, kids should be allowed to have a life, you obviously take great care of them well done.

I think what you did with the kids was great. You accessed the risk and your kids will love you for it. I have a pool that is 4 foot 6 inches deep (I am old school) and I would suggest that you try a salt water pool. Salt water is much cheaper than the normal chlorine pools. and the salt is added on most systems I have seen here automatically. So you have less time trying to get the right balance of chemicals, too much chlorine can kill if you over cook it, no risk like that with salt. Also salt water (so they say) is good for the skin, I am no doctor so do your own research. An independent heat recovery system for the pool would be the cheapest way to keep the temp and humidity just how you need/want it. As always thanks for posting

For anyone whining about the youngen playing in a hole maybe you should talk to your folks about all they used to do at a young age. My first 10 years was spent learning how to 'not' fall out of trees and I'm over 60 now.

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Do a natural pond ,the smell of chlorine is horrible inside a place

We know your not an idiot, don't give air time to the doom sayers!!

7:06 laughed my ass off - my wife is 42 and does the same when i ask her to hold a tape measure(!) 😅

Please tell me Rosa earned herself £4?!

swimming pool in your house? flash **&****

How ridiculous! Anyone who has watched your videos at all over the years with a teaspoon of common sense would realise you aren't going to put your kids at serious risk. It's good to get them involved, getting mucky and having fun. We can already see your eldest is taking an interest and wanting to get stuck in. I'd be much more worried for my future kids spending too much time on a tablet than coming home with bumps and grazes.

It's a real shame that people can't keep there noses out of other people's business. I wonder if these H&S keyboard warriors would be so vocal if they were face to face and how did they get this far in life being wrapped in cotton wool 🤔

GET YOUR KIDS OUT OF THAT TRENCH. YOU ARE PUTTING ALL YOUR LIVES AT RISK. I HAVE NEVER SENT AN ALL CAPS TEXT EVER.

You should collaborate with @thep00lguy on the pool