We purchased a house in 2011 with a buried pool in the backyard.
The neighbors told us the pool was buried because the original owners were getting older and didn't want to take care of the pool anymore.
I found an image of the pool from 1998 from satellite imagery:
When we purchased the house, it looked like this:
You can see that the edge of the pool was broken up so that it sits a few inches below the surface. The neighbors told us that before it was filled in, a bunch of junk was thrown in to fill space, then covered. We do not know anything about how much of a hole may be be punched through the bottom.
We have seen a few threads here where buried pools were recovered, but everyone around here that we called said there's no way to salvage it. Pool company said our only option was to get a smaller pool built inside the shell of the other pool.
We are looking to do as much of ourselves as possible.
The question is, what would make it not salvageable? Even if there are holes punched, can they just be filled with more concrete?
The walls are only broken off the top as far as about where the water line is. Is it ok to build this back up?
We are at a point where we need to make a decision on fixing it, or breaking up the rest of it so it's not sticking out of the ground anymore. Is there anything we should be on the lookup for that is a show-stopper? What would make this project unable to be completed?
Any help or advice is appreciated.
We found the steps earlier today:
Also looks like they plugged the lines before filling:
Found some of the old pool equipment:
And this is where we are now, trying to decide whether we should attempt to restore it as we find more of the original pool equipment buried:
The neighbors told us the pool was buried because the original owners were getting older and didn't want to take care of the pool anymore.
I found an image of the pool from 1998 from satellite imagery:
When we purchased the house, it looked like this:
You can see that the edge of the pool was broken up so that it sits a few inches below the surface. The neighbors told us that before it was filled in, a bunch of junk was thrown in to fill space, then covered. We do not know anything about how much of a hole may be be punched through the bottom.
We have seen a few threads here where buried pools were recovered, but everyone around here that we called said there's no way to salvage it. Pool company said our only option was to get a smaller pool built inside the shell of the other pool.
We are looking to do as much of ourselves as possible.
The question is, what would make it not salvageable? Even if there are holes punched, can they just be filled with more concrete?
The walls are only broken off the top as far as about where the water line is. Is it ok to build this back up?
We are at a point where we need to make a decision on fixing it, or breaking up the rest of it so it's not sticking out of the ground anymore. Is there anything we should be on the lookup for that is a show-stopper? What would make this project unable to be completed?
Any help or advice is appreciated.
We found the steps earlier today:
Also looks like they plugged the lines before filling:
Found some of the old pool equipment:
And this is where we are now, trying to decide whether we should attempt to restore it as we find more of the original pool equipment buried:
