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This is the story of the elimination of our 40-year-old in-ground cement swimming pool. We aren't pool people, but your home included a swimming pool and we enjoyed the home, so we handled the annual maintenance inconveniences up until the pool began to leakage in the summertime of 2013. I searched for and patch the leak, without success, spending more time in the swimming pool that summertime attempting to fix it than I had in the previous ten years.
I did some online research study, and discovered that the expense to remove a swimming pool varied from about $7500 to maybe $15,000-$20,000, depending upon the size and work needed. The low-end appeared to be for demolition without elimination where the bottom is broken up, and the sides of the swimming pool are knocked down 3 feet approximately and the cement is piled into the swimming pool location, and the remainder filled with dirt and covered with topsoil.
The other method is to eliminate all of the concrete, however this is obviously a larger project and generally substantially more costly. I knew I desired complete elimination, and depending on the zoning in a specific location, complete removal may be needed anyway. I then did a web search for swimming pool demolition or removal business.
But they suggested a company called Atlantic Devices Corp as a competitor that they knew of that was closer to us. Thanks for that!! I called Atlantic in mid April, and the proprietor Allen came out that week to check out the job. I fidgeted offered that it appeared like such an insurmountable job, but he was very easy-going and non-plussed about it he 'd plainly done this before.
I nearly tipped over when I read it: the bid was $8800, for total removal of all the concrete in the swimming pool and surrounding patio area! A Good Read sent back an approval. The only (minor) down-side was that at that point they were already arranged through the summer, and couldn't get to us until after labor day.