So being the super dad I try to be my daughter asked for a pool for her birthday(3rd) i know I'm a sap. But everythings gone well thus far until I realized i dug the hole 42in depth around but didn’t account for the almost 10inches of elevation change. So my shelf on the deep end is 10inches too deep. The right side is spot on and the left is a few inches which im not as concerned because I believe with a little crusher run, can be fixed. But what i was thinking for the far end is Frame it up(not walls), add crusher run to level it up and leave the frame until i pour my collar, then remove framing and add dirt To the slope and tamp if prior to my pool base to build it up the few inches that ill need. All the advice is appreciated thank you for the add.
New DIY builder
- Thread starter Jensen23
- Start date
- Jul 21, 2013
- 53,112
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
Welcome to TFP.
I will leave it to @jimmythegreek to advise on how to deal with a deep end dug too deep.
I will leave it to @jimmythegreek to advise on how to deal with a deep end dug too deep.
I just went through this but worse. I used concrete piers. Worked out perfect. I even used red heads to secure the walls to the concrete piers.
Yup piers will work. The other thing you can do is elevate the panels on concrete pads and frame amd brace the front amd let concrete fill your void as part of the collar. You really cant add dirt inside the pool it wont stay put and will wash out with the next rain. Its super.important to dig the hole right. Not really a DIY thing, professional excavators mess then up, its an art so to speak. The way I do it is to dry mix concrete bags amd flick it on the wall to shape it. Regardless you have to move fast rain will bring you back to square one if your not careful
So crusher run gravel framed up and tamped to harden wouldn’t work to support the walls? And im only putting loose dirt on the floor of the pool and tamping it prior to pool base install. And BTW i am an operator i just measured 42 inches around the wall and forgot to take into consideration the elevation drop from one aide to the other because its unnoticeable.
curious why you are adding dirt to the pool floor before the pool base? You should be excavating to a depth plus the pool base thickness and installing the pool base on virgin undisturbed ground.
He overdug it and its low. For future readers always shoot the grade off a benchmark location amd check all over the site so you know the grade. That's why pool builders come out amd spray the lines in the yard.
As for the base the DGA wont hold an edge. If it's a little material that's fine but more than that it wont hold a hard edge. Depending on the soil it's possible to add back gravel sandy material, but stone is a better choice. Anything you add will wash away in a decent rain. It's a real crappy situation to be overdug with a liner pool
As for the base the DGA wont hold an edge. If it's a little material that's fine but more than that it wont hold a hard edge. Depending on the soil it's possible to add back gravel sandy material, but stone is a better choice. Anything you add will wash away in a decent rain. It's a real crappy situation to be overdug with a liner pool
Hi there, @Jensen23. I hope you've been able to repair your dig and if you have any photos of the fix I'd like to see them.