Pool Demoltion & Removal - lots of pix

[hazmat]

If it weren't for the terrace - see attached pic it would have been much faster - break up the bottom, chop 2-3ft off the side walls & bury it all with fill. Probably would have taken 2 days with 1 helper. We were breaking up the concrete faster than 3 guys could haul it off.

 

[hazmat]

The other problem was access. In the previous picture to the left is less of a hill, but the septic resides there. To the right is a steep hill with a double fall line. With my soft soil, the backhoe had a tough time making it up - it kept sliding away from the house. We only made one trip with rocks in the bucket.

If any of y'all are building a house - be sure to leave yourself acess to your backyard for heavy machinery - you never know what future project you might want to undertake...

 

[schmism]

so the backyard will slope away from the house? gonna put in a retaining wall and padio to have a flat spot back there?

 

[hazmat]

so the backyard will slope away from the house? gonna put in a retaining wall and padio to have a flat spot back there?

yup - next spring will add patio w/ wall. Haven't designed it yet - I'm working with a friend who is a landscape architect.

Attached are a couple more pix

After ~3 hours w/ the landscape rake - (first time I used one)
Close up of the abuse we inflicted on the dump trailer

 

[bugstruck]

Whew Hazmat!...I'm tired just looking at it. We Contractors are always looking for the easier way out and you Engineers are always looking to do it extra right. Add our age difference to the career difference and.....Been mine a fair portion of the shell would still be there but the top foot or three would be missing and covered with soil. We'd have punched some sizable holes to drain it and given it a proper burial Still would have had a lot to dispose/transport though. Now-a-days of course (burying it) I'd have to disclose that if I went to sell and some people wouldn't be too enthusiastic over that I presume.

Super job though and absolutlely properly done. Nothing in the way for future projects either. That's the big advantage to doing it once and doing it all.

 

[hazmat]

If the yard was flat & the pool wasn't terraced, I'd have buried as much as possible (would have finished the job with 1/4 the effort as well). I had to remove the material to return the natural slope. I did leave the high side wall, about 3' below grade intact. I broke up the entire floor & buried it near the high side wall. Shouldn't have any drainage problems.

I got it seeded on Saturday, we got some gentle rain yesterday Just have to put the fence back up (took it down to make room for the hoe) and I'll be done 'till spring.

 

[bugstruck]

Just out of curisity, do you have as much trouble getting rid of that demo material up north as we do here? The rubble fills are all closing and we sometimes have to pay tonnage at the landfill. That gets expensive fast even on smaller jobs.

 

[hazmat]

$350 per 20 yard container, no weight limit vs. $450 for "demolition materials" 7 tons included, $95 a ton over 7. Supposedly they recycle it, i think into new aggregate for asphalt.

 

[Whiskey]

OK, this thread is not sitting well with me, in fact it's down right scaring me

The wife an I went round and round about a pool for about 2 months and I still think it's a piss poor investment but I lost the battle and we just pass permitting and waiting for the phone call from the pool guys as to when they will start digging......

The whole argument between me and wifey (my side) "I can see it now, I'll be backing up a truck and buring it in 5 years when you no longer use it and I have to start cleaning it"

so, anywho I'm knee deep in buying a pool and I still ain't sure I want one....dang it I wanted a new truck!

 

[hazmat]

If it's any consolation, you have a much longer "pool season" in FL than we do in MA. It's only warm enough to swim w/o heating it for 2-3 months per year. You can watch the dollar bills go up in smoke when the heater is on. If I remember right, it is 3X the btus of my forced hot water heater.