Build Your Own Pool! This DIY Rock Pool Construction Is The Coolest One I’ve Ever Seen!

It would be a wonderful childhood memory to grow up with a pool, you can have pool parties in hot summer days, or have barbecue near it, a pool in backyard would bring so much to the family. However, not everyone could afford a house come with a fancy pool, thankfully there are always creative people show us how to build your own pool in your backyard! And they are way awesome than the usual ones!

This Imgurian’s dog died. He deal with grief by working outside. Dug a hole with the intention of building a concrete koi pond. He’s done a couple in other houses… no worries… In the next few months, his kid was born and the project came to a hard stop. The hole grew over… …until one of his buddies suggested he dig a giant hole and make a pool… he didn’t grow up with a pool, but remembered how much he loved them as a kid. Figured it be the best present ever for his new son.

Though summer is about to end, but it’s never too late to make your backyard more entertaining!

1. The Plan

2. The original plan wasn’t a pool….

3. So the hole got bigger…

4. And reinforced…

5. Leveling and marking pool edges for rough estimates

6. Begin plumbing for main drain and skimmer

7. Concrete pad pour and pump installation

8. Texas digging and fortification in mid-July

9. One of TX’s hotter never-below-105 summers

10. Still hauling dirt out of the hole – now bucket by bucket

11. Finish retention wall for pool leveling on sloped yard

12. Water discharge tank, two creeks and waterfall – skimmer to the left

13. Begin work on the grotto (or “Cave” as my son calls it)

14. REBAR! – 8×8 squares with #5 steel

15. Outside retaining wall with rebar installed

16. Rebar grid

17. Water discharge tank with rebar

18. Grotto rebar – for ceiling/shelf

19. Near final phases in rebar

20. Would rather dig, than cut, bend and tie rebard… anyday

21. Future swimmer

22. This is for reddit purposes only..

23. view from the greenbelt behind the home

24. Shotcrete day 

25. When the day is done, it will finally look like a pool

26. Shotcrete

27. Shotcrete application

28. Not quite done

29. Week after shotcrete

30. Discharge tank, creeks and baby pool after shotcrete

31. Retention wall after shotcrete

32. Other view

33. Shotcrete – view from the roof

34. Rock creation – 1 month

35. Get pool plastered by professional and fill with water

36. The “Cave”

37. Testing the waters

38. First time in – he likes it!

39. Last stage: Build a raised fire pit and invite good friends over with awesome cameras

Source: Imgur