Hey everyone I'm looking for some opinions and some advice from the professionals out there... I am planning on doing a thread of the complete build with pictures when it's all said and done but for now I'm in a hold up so here's my question... I'm burying my pool 27" into the ground. It's a 24' Saltwater LX... I hired someone to excavate down to flat earth and in the process got taken advantage of cause they started and never showed back up... But it's alright cause I did get my hole dug "just not perfectly like I wanted" they went down like almost 30" and didn't get it level... but I received a lot of nice and pricey landscaping tools free in the process <--- (Because he never came back) I've tried calling and calling him multiple times but he's ignoring me and he only got a 1/4 of his pay so I received more than I paid him in just the tools he left...[emoji23] But anyways back to my question... I live in Corpus Christi, Texas and down here we have a really hard clay dirt mix very very hard to dig!!! So what I did this past weekend was try to finish the pool... So to help get it level I used 6 yds of select fill to help me get it level which came out to be around a 2" to 3" base completely leveled out to within a 1/16" around the whole hole... I used a Vibratory Plate Compactor and compacted till it didn't move anymore and was completely solid like concrete... So I set up the base of my pool to a perfect 24' circumference and staked it down with a few nails to hold it in place like the manual says to do, So I can be ready to add the sand and put up the wall the next day and completely finish the pool... Well to make a long story short I was stopped short of finishing because we had a bad storm come in out of nowhere that night and it filled the hole with a foot of water or more... Now I'm assuming that all the leveling work I just did just got ruined and im gonna have to start over but it was compacted so I don't know? How long do you think I'm gonna have to wait after all the water recedes and it looks dry before I can get back in there and start again? Compacting etc...Or tell me what y'all would do? Here are some pictures 3 to 4 days after the rain storm... there's still around 3" to 4" of water in the hole... by the way since my yard is all dirt "well mud" I haven't been able to get out there and pump out the water like I wanted to...
