My dad's house has fallen into decrepitude the last several years since he's had more and more trouble moving around. The backyard especially has grown into an awful state. The old in-ground pool in particular is one of the large hurdles I'm trying to leap. It's a concrete pool that is 4ft deep on the shallow end and I believe 10 ft. deep on the other end, the deeper end being the one with the ladder. The cover was originally on a motor operated rail system, but as you can see from the photos the huge amount of unattended leaves and refuse has weighed it down and ripped the rails right off the screws drilled into the ground. There is a drainage ditch maybe 15 ft. from the pool with some erosion control that we pump the water out of the pool into, the erosion control seems to have been slightly damage over the years, but is still mostly intact. I live in Indianapolis in mostly flat terrain.
Right now, I just want to clean it up enough that I can send professionals back there to tend to other matters without me worrying about them falling in. Theres a lot ground damage from weeds and trash trees growing under the concrete slabs that may have damaged the concrete within the pool, and I'm concerned that draining the pool completely would cause the whole thing to collapse within a matter of days. As of now my plan is to use a pool skimmer to get as much stuff off of the cover as is possible, then pump water off of the cover until I can lift the cover up and out of the pool, then refill the pool itself back to full. Does that sound like decent triage to you guys? Is there anything else I could do to make the job easier or prevent further damage? I don't know anything about the chemistry of a pool and don't know if I should dump chlorine in or not.
Right now, I just want to clean it up enough that I can send professionals back there to tend to other matters without me worrying about them falling in. Theres a lot ground damage from weeds and trash trees growing under the concrete slabs that may have damaged the concrete within the pool, and I'm concerned that draining the pool completely would cause the whole thing to collapse within a matter of days. As of now my plan is to use a pool skimmer to get as much stuff off of the cover as is possible, then pump water off of the cover until I can lift the cover up and out of the pool, then refill the pool itself back to full. Does that sound like decent triage to you guys? Is there anything else I could do to make the job easier or prevent further damage? I don't know anything about the chemistry of a pool and don't know if I should dump chlorine in or not.
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