Pool day

Miki has now finished painting the back patio deck in a soft terra cotta colour. Finally we can unwrap the pool and start filling it.
When we left in April, we drained the pool completely, and left it covered in plywood panels, set on a slope to allow for water run off, and then covered those panels with 2 heavy duty tarps. This is how it looked when we got here - a couple of rips in the outer tarp, but the inner one was fine, with no water entering the empty pool in our absence.






The plywood panels under the tarps.











This much slope was enough to keep the water from rainfall running off the panels and down the drain, rather than into the pool.






There were several pesky cockroaches who had taken up residence, but after a good sweep and scrub with a little bleach water, it was pristine and ready to fill.