Newbie uncovering a filled-in pool
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are you from chalmette. if so i live down the street from you on corinne, i love to come and see how the pool came out in person
Awesome work. I hope to be able to finish up ours by the beginning of July this year. We had a 60 ft christmas tree in ours!!
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So now the project is pretty much FINISHED!!!!! The pool crew (AAA Pools here in New Orleans) did a really nice job. Their tile guy even reworked all of our broken flagstone around the pool, and re-floated the grout, making the decking look like new. With the heat coming on in south Louisiana, this couldn't have come soon enough.
This was the pool after I dug it out with the excavator:
This was just a sample of the trash that was in the bottom:
The pool crew drained the pool, chipped out all of the old tile, set the new tile, and replastered:
And finally, this is the once trashed pool restored:
Feel free to ask me any questions you have about our renovation of the pool!!
This was the pool after I dug it out with the excavator:
This was just a sample of the trash that was in the bottom:
The pool crew drained the pool, chipped out all of the old tile, set the new tile, and replastered:
And finally, this is the once trashed pool restored:
Feel free to ask me any questions you have about our renovation of the pool!!
Wow, they just tossed everything in there didn't they.
I've got to say, You have absolutely done and amazing job on this pool. You should be commended on a job well done!
I've got to say, You have absolutely done and amazing job on this pool. You should be commended on a job well done!
Wow 
great job, looks like a piece of paradise right there. Hard to believe someone just gave up on it.
great job, looks like a piece of paradise right there. Hard to believe someone just gave up on it.
WOW! 
Awesome, thanks for letting us follow along and taking time to post pics. I think you should post a before and after pic in the same post just to get the full scope of the project.
Awesome, thanks for letting us follow along and taking time to post pics. I think you should post a before and after pic in the same post just to get the full scope of the project.Here ya go:
Before:
and after....
One other thing to mention is that I cleared that entire property by myself over the course of several weekends, then did the fence(all 240 feet of it). The garbage bags of brush/pine needles/trash total was over 150. It had been abandoned for almost five years, and I have never seen so many wasp nests in my life!!! I would rake a few feet of the dried pine needles, then a cloud of wasps would emerge from the ground, where they had built a nest. Under the rim of the pool there was literally a wasp nest every 2 feet or so. If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't hesitate for a minute, especially seeing how how fun my kids are having in the pool. And it's small enough not to be a burden, and the cost of the upkeep looks to be pretty low as well.
Before:
and after....
One other thing to mention is that I cleared that entire property by myself over the course of several weekends, then did the fence(all 240 feet of it). The garbage bags of brush/pine needles/trash total was over 150. It had been abandoned for almost five years, and I have never seen so many wasp nests in my life!!! I would rake a few feet of the dried pine needles, then a cloud of wasps would emerge from the ground, where they had built a nest. Under the rim of the pool there was literally a wasp nest every 2 feet or so. If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't hesitate for a minute, especially seeing how how fun my kids are having in the pool. And it's small enough not to be a burden, and the cost of the upkeep looks to be pretty low as well.
I'm just gonna say again. That is soooo awesome! If you follow the guidelines here your maintenance cost will be very mild.
Congratulations! You did a great job!
That looks like a lot of hard work but I guess that you didn't have to go to the gym while you were working on it....
The amount and type of debris that you removed is amazing. Enjoy it in good health!
That looks like a lot of hard work but I guess that you didn't have to go to the gym while you were working on it....
The amount and type of debris that you removed is amazing. Enjoy it in good health!
great job. happy to see this as i am about to undertake a similar project of bringing a 50 year old pool back to life.care to share total cost on this project? ballpark maybe?
Very satisfying and great exercise! Good job and inspiring for all us DIYer's.
Karl
Karl