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The backyard sat on a sheer cliff, and in order to make construction possible, the pool builder had to raise portions of the ground by 35 feet.
“[The homeowner] walked me out to his backyard and said, ‘I want to put a pool here,’” recalls Gene Brown, president of Valley Pool & Spa, based in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. “I looked down at [the cliff] … that was a tough one to swallow. I said, ‘Are you sure? You’re going to have to want it really bad.’”
But, because the property sat on solid rock, Brown didn’t have to utilize piers and grade beams. Instead, an engineer required that he blast the rock, build 35-foot-high retaining walls, and backfill in compacted and tested layers. This ultimately left the vessel sitting 12 feet below the house.
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