Hello!
This is a great forum and I am learning a lot about pools!
I just wanted to share our pool build experience. We built the pool ourselves. It is a traditional vinyl liner pool and is what is typical for our Northern Ontario location. It is a 36 x 18 foot L with a 10 x 14 shallow end. It was fun to build - mega work with the shovel and concrete....and we are still doing some work on it .
After choosing the pool style, getting permits and planning for the dig it was go time in September last year. To rent the excavator was about $1200 for a week, plus fuel and float. My awesome wife made some calls and found a nice guy who wanted work and had done lots of pool digs - his cost all in was $1100 to dig the pool - done in a day. I did the lay out with my buddy and set up the grades - The Excavator brought his own guy to help on the dig - WOW and the assistant ran the transit I had set up - I was able to then co-ordinate a gravel delivery and moving the top soil.
Just finishing the hole. After the guy left it started raining - time to drop in gravel....
More to come......
This is a great forum and I am learning a lot about pools!
I just wanted to share our pool build experience. We built the pool ourselves. It is a traditional vinyl liner pool and is what is typical for our Northern Ontario location. It is a 36 x 18 foot L with a 10 x 14 shallow end. It was fun to build - mega work with the shovel and concrete....and we are still doing some work on it .
After choosing the pool style, getting permits and planning for the dig it was go time in September last year. To rent the excavator was about $1200 for a week, plus fuel and float. My awesome wife made some calls and found a nice guy who wanted work and had done lots of pool digs - his cost all in was $1100 to dig the pool - done in a day. I did the lay out with my buddy and set up the grades - The Excavator brought his own guy to help on the dig - WOW and the assistant ran the transit I had set up - I was able to then co-ordinate a gravel delivery and moving the top soil.
Just finishing the hole. After the guy left it started raining - time to drop in gravel....
More to come......