Digging a Pool

This spring I am getting a special kind of entertainment, my neighbors are installing a pool and I get a ring side seat. I had heard from others that have installed swimming pools that the process is a mess and requires replacing most of the lawn anywhere near the pool. Now I am seeing how right they were by saying that. Part of the time my view looked like this:

Not much of a view there, just lots of dirt. Finally after a day of loading dump trucks my view improved.

I'm told the pool will hold 25,000 gallons of water with the deep end being about 10 feet with a diving board. Fairly large pool. With the digging almost done I was able to get a video of some of the last of it.

These three guys worked very well together. Each could anticipate the next action of the others without any problems. Notice how calmly the one working with the shovel to shape the bottom of the hole is working with no fear of his co-workers digging. They would have had this hole completed in one day but ran into an unmarked sewer line and had to regroup. The next day was spent re-routing the sewer line and the morning of the third day was spent finishing the hole.

Next went in the start of the walls for the pool:

I'll miss about a week of the entertainment because of a family trip that will keep me away. But it will be interesting to see the progress they will make in that time. The complete project is supposed to take about a month, so hopefully I won't miss too much.