Start with a hole in the ground. Then mix a load of concrete. Don't bother with shuttering just chuck spade fulls of concrete at the sides (sand). Come back the following day and the day after that doing the same. Mix mortar. Plaster it with that until it is smooth. Cover with fibre glass sheeting. Use a roller to cover that with resin. Coat with plastic type paint and fill with water. That doesn't cover all the plumbing but that was conventional.
Amazingly it is fine. So far.
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Post updates on the interweb and keep people all over the world entertainedEx-Ascot wrote: ↑Wed Oct 10, 2018 9:43 amStart with a hole in the ground. Then mix a load of concrete. Don't bother with shuttering just chuck spade fulls of concrete at the sides (sand). Come back the following day and the day after that doing the same. Mix mortar. Plaster it with that until it is smooth. Cover with fibre glass sheeting. Use a roller to cover that with resin. Coat with plastic type paint and fill with water. That doesn't cover all the plumbing but that was conventional.
Amazingly it is fine. So far.
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Well here we are one month on and problems..........so far.
Must say thaf the massive blue underwater light at night amuses us.
Must say thaf the massive blue underwater light at night amuses us.
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