Here are some thoughts b4 the work get started. btw any comments are welcome as they will help in the final results.
First a pic of what would (dreaming?) would be the final completion which would be many many moons more. The initial part would be the making of the fish room with the integrated indoor pond with outside filter. In the fish room would be more tanks for quarantine, hospic, recovery and prehaps breeding? (At a much much later stage.)
Steps
Excavation for the room columns first, followed by excavating the pool.
The contractor would be building the indoor pool by laying a wooden piling over the area of the pool which is estimated to hold about 13 tons of water.
Over this wood piles would be laid a (RC) reinforced concrete floor with a water proofed cement mix. With the Pipes laid b4 pouring the mix.
Then a 4' high pond wall jig would be build over the rc floor. The pond wall would also be RC again with water proofing.
During this stage the wall seperating the indoor pool from the outside filter will be done.
Next would be the water proof cement plaster on the pool walls and floor.
We planned to use colored cement for the final layer on top of the plaster instead of tiles which was thought of in the beginning.
The Fish room would also be taking shape while this is going on. That part of the work will include the windows, doors, flooring, roofing. I do not know which will be done or the order. The contractor will make the necessary sequencing of the works.
The electrical and plumbing works would be done with separate lines for both independant of the original supplies from the municipal to the current house.
The roof being rc would be use to hold 2 water tanks for use as and when necessary.
BTw the pic are just concepts, the actual items may turn out rather different. LOL
