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Underground swimming pool- yrs underground

 
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Fun video, though it is laughably impractical... an underground pool with sod bench around it? Good only until the sod dies or the rainy season comes.
 
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That's really impressive but, between the confined-space entry issues, asphyxiation potential and structural destabilization as water infiltrates, the Site Safety Officer in me is freaking out.

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My pulse rate quickened as soon as she crawled into that lateral drift to dig further. Cave-ins are a thing.
 
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Wow! If I disappear for a week, I'm probably binging this whole channel.
 
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Christopher Weeks wrote:Wow! If I disappear for a week, I'm probably binging this whole channel.

Somehow I get the impression that if I invited her to my property, she wouldn't find it quite as easy as the video makes it look! I'm not sure what she's digging in, but I'm betting it's not compacted glacial till/sedimentary cross.
 
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The pool itself is acyually lined with a cement based plaster.
The soil composition is important, but it obviously works.

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Uniform tropical clayey soil in the dry season, fine. I wonder how many rainy seasons it will last before collapsing... I noticed the cement she put in the pool liner mixture, that is fine, but the sod will die soon in the dark and become either dry or nasty rotting...
 
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