Bury pool - northern states

[maieranne]

We live in Iowa and would like to bury an above ground pool other than doughboy. We cannot afford too much as our budget is under 5K. Has anyone buried a pool at least 2ft and had success for 5-10+ years? We have a quote on a 27' Garden leisure for $3,500. I was hoping with some applied protectant to the outside walls/beams we could make it work. Backfill with soil?

 

[Red Shirt Ensign]

depends on what you mean by bury...

I have a 22" grade and they said any more than 2ft would require me to install a retaining wall.

you could put your whole pool in a ~2 foot hole and not bury the sides completely in dirt ... and still have your deck lead up to it....
As I understand it if you were to try and bury the pool wall completely with dirt up to 2 foot deep it would probably make your liner changes in the future very tricky to say the least...

 

[maieranne]

Thanks Red Shirt-
Idealy we would like as deep as possible but the hole idea may work. Just have no backfill......

 

[Red Shirt Ensign]

You still need about 5" of backfill around the base but other than that...

 

[GLWOOD]

I just buried my 18 ABG 16" and back filled with soil. On the outside wall and the uprights a used roll on tar. It hardned up really nice and actually looks pretty good. It is know buried bout its on there for proctection.

Grant

 

[Red Shirt Ensign]

they said I could bury mine up to 24" but I would still be worried about changing a liner... and if you are doing a deck it really doesn't matter too much unless the water would sit there under the deck for some reason and not drain away in the soil or evaporate