ModPool Arrives
Part of our house design includes a pool. We based it around a ModPool, from a company that started building pools out of shipping containers earlier this year. The pools are completely self contained, delivered by truck, and craned into place.
The pools are built in British Columbia, and ours came straight from Canada to West Virginia by itself. Unfortunately, the truck it came on was enormous, and big enough to carry two or three pools! Unfortunate, because it was too big to navigate the last 2 miles of the trip up our private road to the build site. Even worse, we did not realize this was a problem until the rig showed up.
However, my general contractor has turned out to be fantastically resourceful. He rustled up a local driver with a smaller truck and trailer.
We then used the crane to lift the pool off the big truck and onto the smaller rig.
That patch of brown on the side of the pool is paper covering the 4'x8' plexiglass window on the side of the pool. The pool will be on the hill side of the house, so there will be a view even from under the water.
With our smaller rig, the pool and crane trundled up the private road to the site. There, things went closer to plan and we lifted the pool off the trailer and onto some concrete blocks.
We do not have a foundation yet, so the pool will sit in this temporary spot next to the excavated hole until its concrete pad is ready.
The pools are built in British Columbia, and ours came straight from Canada to West Virginia by itself. Unfortunately, the truck it came on was enormous, and big enough to carry two or three pools! Unfortunate, because it was too big to navigate the last 2 miles of the trip up our private road to the build site. Even worse, we did not realize this was a problem until the rig showed up.
However, my general contractor has turned out to be fantastically resourceful. He rustled up a local driver with a smaller truck and trailer.
We then used the crane to lift the pool off the big truck and onto the smaller rig.
That patch of brown on the side of the pool is paper covering the 4'x8' plexiglass window on the side of the pool. The pool will be on the hill side of the house, so there will be a view even from under the water.
With our smaller rig, the pool and crane trundled up the private road to the site. There, things went closer to plan and we lifted the pool off the trailer and onto some concrete blocks.
We do not have a foundation yet, so the pool will sit in this temporary spot next to the excavated hole until its concrete pad is ready.
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