nell1e

Hi

Need some advice

Has anyone on here ever had an above ground put set in the ground?? and if so do they need to be concreted in?????

Nellie

soapy©

send scossie a PM he will know

biggy

we were thinkin about that....but by the time u put them in the bloody ground bla bla u r just as well spending that wee bit extra to get a fibreglass pool in ....well thats what we have found anyways...............getting the quotes just now wooo hooo canny wait lol

The Corderys

Hi Nellie

We have, We have had a 3.6 by 6 metre one mostly buried(up to just below tha water line in our back garden. It cost, 3500 for the pool(new from clark rubber)1200 for the bobcat bloke to dig the hole and take the extra fill we didn't need, we paid 750 for blokes to build/install it(can do it yourself but it only took them one day and was a lot less stressful for us) then we backfilled ourself which took ages!! Well we did it over a few days, and yes it was 1 part cement I think to 5 sand(just the stuff that'd come out when you dug the hole) We're in Perth and that might vary depending on your soil type.

It's still a work in progress but picture attached!

kimi

Hi

Looks great, and a lot cheaper than fibreglass

Why does it need to be cemented in, surely its not going anywhere

K

The Corderys

Yeah I know, and it costs you a couple of extra hundred for the many bags of cement but it just adds to it's strength, I suppose if you didn't cement it you'd be ok as long as the water level was above the land level(pressure thing), but you'd have to dig the thing out if you had to empty the water for any reason. They advise it in the instructions you get and I recon any guarantee would probably be voided if you didn't do it too. (And we're the sort of lucky peeps that'd then end up needing it!)

movetoperth

I have a friend who has recently done this, fully sunk, and yes they did have to set it with a sand/cement mix.

It looks really good!!

Lynn