Polypropylene basins with own hands

If there is no natural natural reservoir near your country house, then probably you should think about building a swimming pool right on the site. Being a complex engineering structure, and not an ordinary pit, the pool requires a very careful approach to its construction and choice for this place. In the past, the availability of a pool in the site was an indicator of very high solvency. Today there are so many cheap materials that you can even build polypropylene pools with your own hands, the cost of which will be within reasonable limits.

Selecting a material

Anyone wants to build such a pool so that they do not have to spend a lot on repairing or reconstructing it later. For this reason, it is necessary before the device to carefully consider the choice of the type of material for its artificial reservoir. Previously, pools were made of concrete, plastic or a special waterproof film. Today, thanks to such material as polypropylene, you can install a pool of any shape or size you like on your site.

Today, the industry produces a special grade of polypropylene, which has such properties that allow it to be used for the construction of hydraulic structures:

• First of all, this is very low water, heat and gas permeability.
• In tanks for swimming pools the necessary temperature is maintained, so there is no need for thermal insulation.
• A pool made of this material will save electricity, as the heat contained in the water does not escape into the ground or into the concrete.
• From polypropylene it is possible to produce a container of absolutely any, even irregular shape.

• Attractive appearance and technical reliability.
• Resistance to aggressive media and chemicals.
• Long service life.
• It has very high strength, and also shock resistance.

• Its color stability, and excellent protection against burnout.
• Light weight and abrasion resistance.

To make a basin of the pool a polypropylene sheet 4 x 1.5 m in size is used. Its thickness is either 5 or 8 mm. For this material, the temperature is considered to be safe to + 95 degrees, which is quite sufficient for the stated purpose.

The technological process of the pool basin production is represented by the installation of sheet propylene by the welding method with imperceptible and very strong welding seams.

Preparatory stage of the construction of the

Before starting the construction of the pool, it is necessary to carry out some preparatory work, on which the further steps in the installation will depend. The design phase is almost the most important step to the success of the whole project. Choose at first the depth of the pool, which starts from 1 m on the euronorms, and ends at 1.65 m. The choice is made and the shape of the bowl itself, so that it fits into one or another section. You can choose any one, but you need to know that the harder it is, the more difficult it is to install and care for the pool. For geometrically irregular shapes, it is more difficult to calculate the power of pumps and filters.

Entertainment devices, such as horizontal bars, springboards, stairs and slides, should also be installed optimally, so the calculation of their location is very important. It should also be taken into account that if someone does not know how to swim in the family, the construction of a too deep basin is dangerous. The swimming pool should be located on a site freed from the buildings and vegetation near the water supply.

To facilitate the installation process, it is necessary to draw a diagram of the entire structure, and already for it to calculate the direct installation of hydraulic equipment. The construction for installing the bowl or pit should be 1 m wider than the bowl itself. This will allow you to easily handle the installation work.

Step-by-step instruction for the construction of a polypropylene basin

If you have an overwhelming desire to save money, you can do without employing labor, and do it yourself. You can still hire an excavator if he manages to call the site. In this case, you need to know that the cost of renting an excavator is quite high.

• After the installation site has been installed, pegs are driven in and outline a rope along the contour. Then you need to fix the height of the planned side of the pool. The pit depth is required to be increased by 50 cm more than the height of the basin.
• It is imperative to make a drainage bowl that protects against the pressure of nearby groundwater. To do this, level the bottom of the foundation pit, cover it with geotextile, after which the whole bottom is covered with rubble with a layer thickness of 30 cm. Geotextiles will not allow rubble to plunge into the ground. The excavated land is scattered around the site next to the excavation, later part of it will be backfilled.
• We begin laying the reinforcing mesh after building and compacting the drainage. Reinforcing mesh should be with 25 cm cells, which are placed on bricks. They should be distributed evenly along the bottom of the entire excavation so that the grid is raised 5 cm above the rubble. To make the screed turned out qualitative it is necessary to install beacons from metal pipes on gypsum solution.
• Then proceed to pouring the concrete mixture. You can prepare it yourself using a concrete mixer or order it ready. It is easier to fill a concrete mixture with a trough, for example, from ordinary boards. This design makes it convenient to feed the solution to the very bottom of the excavation.

• After pouring, we need to get a concrete slab whose thickness is 20 cm, exceeding the pool capacity by 50 cm along the entire perimeter. Normal drying of the concrete pedestal will happen only after 5 days.
• On concrete it is possible to lay a heat insulator which provides additional heat protection of the pool and prevents rapid cooling of water in it. Sometimes it is also necessary to lay the hydrotextile. As a heat insulator, you can choose absolutely inexpensive materials, such as polystyrene, which can be fastened together with ordinary adhesive tape.

Assembling the bowl for the

pool The most difficult thing in the construction of the pool is the welding of the finished sheets of polypropylene. To do this, you need a special welding machine, a construction hair dryer with the necessary nozzles. For soldering a special rod is used to connect polypropylene seams.

Welding of joints of polypropylene basin is performed according to a special algorithm:

• We designate joints joints according to the prepared drawing, on which it is necessary to note all parameters of the bowl.
• The bowl must be made from the bottom of the excavation, but at the beginning it is necessary to cut all the necessary details of the future structure: the bottom, the side, and the steps. Connect the polypropylene sheets from the outside, welding them with a pistol with a hot air jet passing through the nozzle for the unfolded corner. Welding equipment is very expensive, so it's easier to rent it.
• Then the bottom of the excavation is laid with billets of polypropylene, which are cut in the shape of the bottom of the pool. The edges of these sheets are connected to the sides of the future basin and begin to weld them from two sides: from the outside, attachments for welding seams, and from the inside with a polypropylene rod to weld the seams. This double seam is more durable.

• The steps are also manufactured exactly. When the bowl of the future basin is welded, it is necessary to weld more stiffeners with it using the same rod. The distance between these ribs is 50-70 cm. Once the structure has been completely made, it must be firmly installed and fixed.

Installation of auxiliary inserts and fixing of the

. After the pool construction work is completed, proceed to the installation of a hydraulic system consisting of pipes around the perimeter, installation of special bottom drains and installation of lighting equipment. For the proper functioning of the pool, special equipment will be required to filter the water and suck off contamination from its bottom( the so-called vacuum cleaner).

After all the equipment is finally installed, you need to connect it and the communication. Then it is required to check all the resulting pool system for its operability. If our pool is functioning correctly, then proceed to fixing the cup and its subsequent pouring.

Fastening the polypropylene bowl

To keep and keep the correct shape of the bowl wall, you need to install spacers inside the pool. After that, protect all pipes with special protective sleeves. Round the bowl collect and reinforce the formwork.

In the process of pouring concrete, make sure that the walls do not bend. Then we perform the following actions:

• We first collect the bowl with water to a depth of only 30 cm.
• Fill with liquid concrete the gap around the entire pool to the same 30 cm and wait for the first layer to dry completely.
• After a day, add another 30 cm of water to the pool and fill the second layer of the solution with this height.
• Thus, we continue to concrete the height of all the walls of the artificial reservoir.
• After drying of the concrete formwork, sand the remaining free space and compact it.
• The final stage of the entire construction will be landscaping around the polypropylene basin.

Repair and maintenance of the pool of propylene

Polypropylene pools are one of the most reliable structures. Despite this, sometimes there are situations when they have to be repaired. To complex overhaul carry elimination of serious malfunctions: replacement of hydrounits, the whole pool. Small or unforeseen repairs involve the elimination of such malfunctions as: replacement of burnt underwater lights, elimination of pipe rupture. To average repair we include such works, when individual elements of a certain system or a whole system of heating, filtration, hydraulic control are being repaired.

To ensure that such repairs are carried out as sparingly as possible, the correct and timely maintenance of the polypropylene basins is necessary. The main scourge of such structures can be called mud and chemistry. Cleaning from dirt should be carried out annually by the usual mechanical method. Detergents at the same time should be used safe for polypropylene. It is better not to use usual chlorine-containing agents, as they discolour the surface of the bowl, make it bleak. The chlorine breaks the microporosity of polypropylene. Therefore, it is better to use safe chlorine compounds, such as sodium hypochlorite or the like.

If you decide to build a swimming pool on your own, then you will need special equipment and materials. The most popular artificial hydro facilities are polypropylene basins. Big money for the construction of this pool is not required, and the design of the object can be created any.