The pouring of the concrete slab for the swimming pool is the subject of this video. You can also see how I make a formwork and how I apply the reinforcement. I hired a company to pour the concrete.

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Due to rising groundwater and rainwater, the walls were constantly calving. As a result, parts of the walls collapsed a little. Before I could install the formwork, I first had to scoop the sand of the collapsed walls. In addition, I also had to turn on the submersible pump every time to pump out the constantly rising groundwater.
I installed the formwork in these circumstances. I made the formwork from concrete plywood boards. I tapped these boards about four inches into the sand and connected them together with metal corners of stainless steel. With this the concrete slab of at least be 15 cm thick. Of course I placed the boards level and 1 meter below ground level, measured from the top of the boards. When the formwork was ready I leveled the bottom of sand within as much as possible, with a rake.
I placed construction foil in the formwork, this is better for the curing process of the concrete. I placed half concrete tiles on top of the construction foil and on top of that mesh mats of steel for the reinforcement. I overlapped these steel mats and braided them together. With that, my work was finished and the pouring of the concrete slab could begin.
The company I had hired for this came at the agreed time with a cement truck and a concrete pump. The cement was pumped through a 25-meter hose from the street to the hole in the backyard. 20 minutes later the concrete floor was poured I could start leveling. With boots on, I stepped into the liquid cement with a straight metal slab and a trowel to finish and smooth the top layer. About an hour later I was done with that.
Shortly afterwards it had rained lightly so that the top layer, unfortunately, was no longer so smooth after the first part of the curing process. They call this a concrete floor with rain damage. I knew I would still have to level the floor at a later stage in the project, so this was no problem.
The next day I was already able to walk on the concrete slab and make preparations for bricklaying the walls of the pool.

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