Filling In A Pool With Dirt

Driftwood

Someone has a 40 ft lap pool and wants it gone. This is in the bay area
[no frost ] I imagine punch a mess of holes un the bottom with a jack hammer and fill with compaction. access is tough ,no bobcat! Any input thank's Drift

POOLMANinCT

in most states you need a permit for a fill in, as a
pool is considered an outbuilding.....
generally the walls have to be removed & depending on depth floor also.... reason being if the home is sold & new owner goes to dig for an other outbuild they will not hit a pool.... if you do a "midnight fill in" an inspector may bag you, but you & ho will definitely get pinched when the town revaluation comes or house is offered for sale..... as far as punching holes, good chance you will end up with drainage problems.... wrecking ball


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AtlanticWBConst

I know this is done alot. My parents have a useless inground pool (now a swamp) that has not been opened up in 6 or 7 years....

Anyway, I saw this done for the first time last year. Across the street from me, my neighbors did it. They pulled a permit (noisy, noisy work - so that was smart)

Pool completely drained.
Guy used an excavator and a heavy boulder. He dropped it repeatedly to break up the bottom of the pool (concrete?).
They then ripped out the old metal liner and all the insides and hauled them away (Recycling most likely)
Next day, they dropped a load of dirt. Bulldozer came in and filled and leveled it all off.

They had to take down a section of chain link fence by pulling a post out of the ground and temporarily rolling it up.
When all was done, they regraded everything and re-installed the fence.

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mdshunk

That's using the old noodle...

TempestV

Poor man's wrecking ball huh?
I agree with MD- Smart man to come up with that.

KentWhitten

I have PLENTY of boulders if you need one or two thousand.

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ron schenker

Poor man's trampoline

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Kingfisher

if you can't get the bobcat back there how are you going too fiil it in? Thats a lot of wheelbarrow loads.