Filling in old swimming pool--some metal content

The older I get the better I like to do it right the FIRST time. The right way on this is obvious and not terribly expensive if you shop around a bit. A tractor mounted backhoe would make short work of the walls, deck, and floor. Something like two truck loads of concrete. Around here, there are several places that accept this stuff, it is ground into road fill. Refill the hole with clean fill, usually available for free, check with the city building department to see who is building nearby. If your dimensions are right, figure 3 truckloads of clean fill.

Depending on where you are, the city usually likes to see a demolition permit. They like to see it done right too.

I haven't done anything like this lately but I'd guess $1000 to $1500 would cover removal of ALL concrete, fill with clean dirt, ready for lawn, garden, or new building. Note: if you want to build on it, you need to tell the contractor so they can pack it.

PS: I've done this on a DIY basis, not happy with the results.

ff wrote:

I turned my unwanted pool into a fish pond. I bought 75 catfish fingerlings and a few tillapia. The tillapia eat the algae, the cats eat the tillapia, and I ate the cats.

I filled a 20X40 gunite pool last year. Pool was built in 1959. I thought it would be an easy job to just bust the apron and the top 24 inched of the walls and push them in the hole and cover with dirt. No way. The cornors were 12 inches thich with lot's of rebar in them. A backhoe buchet would not break it without lot's of effort. The sides were thinner and broke up easier, but still not as easy as I expected. I had dirt hauled in byt the 25 yd dumptruck. The whole job cost me $4000

So, just plant trees around the pool and wait for nature to take it's course?

I suppose we could advertise it as a skateboard park and charge admission to skate in the empty pool. ;-)

ff

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lol. You can't even read your own post. FM

On 13 Dec 2003 00:00:09 GMT, Fdmorrison put forth the notion that...

One of us sure can't, but feel free to jump to whatever conclusions suit you. Oh, and watch out for those killer tomatoes...

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On 12 Dec 2003 20:21:51 -0800, jim rozen put forth the notion that...

Buh-bye...

If it weren't for jumping to conclusions some of us wouldn't get any exercise.

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 05:23:28 GMT, Mark put forth the notion that...

You got a point there...

Last I checked, copper is a good preventer of barnacles on boat hulls (anti-fouling property).. now tell me, how well will plants to instead?

I seem to remember someone here posted about a #400 or so crucible with a chunk of bronze stuck in the bottom.. and tried using it as a planter, but nothing would grow due to the excess of copper.

Tim

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On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 00:02:37 -0600, Tim Williams put forth the notion that...

Dunno... plants aren't barnacles. My grass grows as well over my copper water main as it does anywhere else in the yard.

I hardly think that 2 or 3 motors buried over five feet deep in my swimming pool are going to change life as we know it, or life as my plants know it, but I'll grow some tomatoes there next Spring to be sure.

I'm in the SF Bay Area. How about a pool table in trade?

ff

Just a little too far. The only place I could put one is in my shop and my machines would put up a fight. Or the living room , and then the wife would leave and I could have friends over to play... nah

If you could put up good photos on a site I could give your friend some advice. Can't see email pictures.

I have posted several pages of pictures and information on the demolition/removal of our 50 x 20 concrete pool which you may find interesting.

Made my day. What was wrong with the pool in the first place? I've fixed pools after the first couple of pictures. Hey, some people just get sick of them, like me.

That was a good one though. Diving , skate board Haven, and I just hate doing shallow 3.5' pools.

Long story.....it was old (1967) and needed a bunch of repairs and we didn't really want it in the back yard anymore anyway so....see ya!

Not only interesting, but useful. I've been thinking about getting rid of the 'azure albatross' for years, but I also was quoted a cost of $10 K or so.

Thanks

--RC "Sometimes history doesn't repeat itself. It just yells 'can't you remember anything I've told you?' and lets fly with a club. -- John W. Cambell Jr.

If you don't want it for a swimming pool, how about raising fish (for viewing, relaxation or eating?