Pool removal

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I just need to update this thread

If your pool is on plan and it is removed you will need to update your plans and the geologist/engineer will need to sign off on it.

Im sorta running in circles getting this done now. So just a warning to all :)

Reason im doing this is I need an extension built on the house and im getting plans updated.
 
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Make sure you break through sufficiently at the bottom of the pool for drainage
 
ISP cash cow said:
that probably why the geologist has to sign off on it, to ensure that the water runoff will be back to normal and no pooling will occur
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Yeah all good was done properly years ago just need to get it signed off officially now
 
Seriously thinking of filling in. Fix one thing, another part packs up. Have to replace the older filter selecter which cracked. Broke my leather strap oil filter wrench on trying to loosen the connectors. Dont want to cut, as I just replaced the pipes and dont want pipes with a whole lot of couplings.
 
rh1 said:
Seriously thinking of filling in. Fix one thing, another part packs up. Have to replace the older filter selecter which cracked. Broke my leather strap oil filter wrench on trying to loosen the connectors. Dont want to cut, as I just replaced the pipes and dont want pipes with a whole lot of couplings.
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I regret filling it in for 2 weeks a year no regrets the rest of the year.

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chrisc said:
We recently filled the pool that was installed in 1990. The contractor came with 4 guys and had 4 tons of rubble delivered. This filled the void to 500mm below the rest of the garden. Then soil was laid and the whole surface compacted for a day or two. Then topsoil mixed with compost was added

We have watered the area (12m x 7m) every day. Bought grass cuttings and the gardener started last Thursday

Total cost was R 34 000,00

That included making a paving border 15m long using bricks taken from the surround
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Hi, Can you perhaps please share details of the contractor that filled your pool for you.
Regards
Mahomed
 
The pool is useful for toilet water and a "bath" in summers when the municipality decides it is no longer a right to give people water. Oh, and the third best reason to keep the pool is swimming for 2 weeks of the year.

Otherwise organise building rubble and just fill it for cheap. Shouldn't be more than 25k.
 
I was lucky when I decided to decommission my pool. I hired a jackhammer and destroyed the whole floor and broke down the walls for about 500mm. My neighbour across the street fortunately had his pool installed at the same time, and I only had to transfer his soil into my prepared hole.
This was done by hiring two labourers off the street for three days, transporting the soil with wheelbarrows across the street at a cost of three days paying their salaries. :)
 
Guys I am serious about the pool removal, took us a month of back and forth to FINALLY get it signed off by geology if its not done properly you will have massive issues on the house plans
 
Snyper564 said:
Guys I am serious about the pool removal, took us a month of back and forth to FINALLY get it signed off by geology if its not done properly you will have massive issues on the house plans
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I just did it more than twenty years ago, without any plans signed by anyone. It must have been done in a good fashion, as it never sunk in after planting the lawn, not even a few centimetres.
 
Stokstert said:
I just did it more than twenty years ago, without any plans signed by anyone. It must have been done in a good fashion, as it never sunk in after planting the lawn, not even a few centimetres.
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I removed it 5 years ago, zero signs it was ever there I have renovations now and to get it off the plan is where the issues came in, as you will also need to do it if it was on plan and now you need to take it off before selling

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chrisc said:
We recently filled the pool that was installed in 1990. The contractor came with 4 guys and had 4 tons of rubble delivered. This filled the void to 500mm below the rest of the garden. Then soil was laid and the whole surface compacted for a day or two. Then topsoil mixed with compost was added

We have watered the area (12m x 7m) every day. Bought grass cuttings and the gardener started last Thursday

Total cost was R 34 000,00

That included making a paving border 15m long using bricks taken from the surround
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Hi, would you mind sharing details of the contractor that did the job for you please?
 
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