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It was on there but if the kids bounce on the edge they’ll hit the deck edge

Am thinking it would be better to only have steps from the decking, and not mess with the lawn. Not sure how I'd add a light to a concrete step.

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medium sized paving stones

The ground is extremely dense with a lot of rock. I'm geussing the fact that it hasn't collapsed was the reason we were told to just stick with the slabs. I did wonder about adding a small cemented breeze-block type wall inside to stabilize, but was told no need.

apologies missed the last bit... Will take a pic when home later thanks. We have paving slabs lent up against the 45cm high exposed earth sides (to initially stop any earth slippage), next door's builder father said this should be fine- I'm guessing that's not quite right??

It's been without pool for ~7 years and never even puddled, do you suggest to add drainage? (Thanks for replies btw)

It's sunken by at 45cm, correct below ground

Nope, Sweden, the pool area (sans pool) has never filled with rain, so was thinking there's enough natural drainage...??

The one with the pool is my garden (the pool is gone), the other pic is the kind of thing I've planned (but with the seat in 2 sections with opposing step access).

I've ripped out a circular swimming pool that was built into our raised deck (cats started drowning in it...), and needed to replaced it with something- decided on a sunken seating area with firepit (the pool area is 45cm below the lawn level). Going to build wodden seats with steps going up to...

Thanks very much JohnD, really good to know! (I'm a beginner DIYer...) I've seen conflicting guides/comments that you either need to use refractory cement and fire bricks or that you do not as the open fire doesn't get hot enough.

Hi, I'm going to buid a brick bbq in the garden, which in Sweden has temps from -10C in winter to +30C in summer. For the concrete base I'm going to use 'fine concrete' as that seems all that's available for outside use here, but for the cement used to build the bbq I was going to use...