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04-20-2009, 09:17 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: New York, NY | | | Digging your own swimming pool - Anyone ever do it?
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My brother and I were kicking around the idea to dig a pool for my parents in their backyard.
We have access to heavy machinery (my brother is a fireman and knows people with equipment)
Anyone ever do it? |
04-20-2009, 09:26 PM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | | You should post a bunch of pictures and a how to on TB if you do. |
04-20-2009, 09:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: St. John's, NL | | | i once dug my own grave....oh wait...
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04-20-2009, 09:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Richmond, Virginia | | The only digging equipment I have access to is a shovel, so I've never even considered it as a possibility  |
04-20-2009, 09:39 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: New York, NY | | | We have access to a medium size excavator. |
04-20-2009, 09:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: COLORADO | | | You gotta have someplace to put the dirt that you take out of the hole. |
04-20-2009, 09:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Western New York, USA | | | depending on where you live some people will take the fill away for free, assuming they can use it. |
04-20-2009, 10:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: COLORADO | | | Transporting dirt away takes a dump truck, which costs money - just something to keep in mind.
Check on permits and have all of the utilitys (also leach fields / septic systems) located before you start digging.
...And expect there to be some issue to deal with. Tree roots, construction backfill, big rocks, ect... There's always something when it comes to excavation. |
04-20-2009, 10:11 PM
|  | Blah blah blah | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Tuscola | | It's not the hole that I would worry about, but what you do with the hole after you have it. You can't just pour concrete, you'll have to mold it somehow but i suck at anything related to concrete. Then I would assume that you'll either have to spray the concrete with something or line it with a liner. Since concrete is porous.
nortonrider is correct... dirt is expensive to haul away. I'll take it if you can get it to central IL 
I would suggest an above ground pool then build a deck around it.
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04-20-2009, 10:26 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Levy's Leathers Moderator | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Toronto/Niagara Falls, Ontario | | | Screw concrete.
Use duct tape.
Just line the hole, and fill it. |
04-20-2009, 10:26 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Levy's Leathers Moderator | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Toronto/Niagara Falls, Ontario | | | ^
That's what she said. |
04-20-2009, 10:33 PM
|  | I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize! | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Wilson Screw concrete.
Use duct tape.
Just line the hole, and fill it. | +1 On using duct tape! Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Wilson ^
That's what she said. | -1 For responding to your own message  |
04-20-2009, 10:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Mark Wilson ^
That's what she said. | A self-reply?
I wasn't aware such fail existed... |
04-20-2009, 10:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: COLORADO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Joey3313 A self-reply?
I wasn't aware such fail existed... | It has just been taken to a whole new level. |
04-20-2009, 10:56 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Levy's Leathers Moderator | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Toronto/Niagara Falls, Ontario | | | it's just the beginning. |
04-20-2009, 11:07 PM
| | I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize! | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Wilson it's just the beginning. | This doesn't bode well...... I can see a new Mark Wilson only forum. It will start out ok, light banter, but a reply will be taken out of context, tempers will flair, and in the end Mark will have to ban himself  |
04-20-2009, 11:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: West Side SA | | | i no longer know what this thread is about, but am happy to be here to witness Marky Mark and his Funky Bunch create another superb fail.
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04-20-2009, 11:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: West Side SA | | | oh and:
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04-21-2009, 05:30 AM
|  | User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: East Coast | | | I say go for it.
Try to make it a suprise. Wait until they go away for a weekend and have at it.
Make sure to get a picture of the look on their faces when they return.
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04-21-2009, 05:45 AM
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