Rather than call out a number of businesses to quote I wonder if any one here has filed in their pool and what the approximate cost is likely to be. Mine is 6mx8m and 2m deep at most. A minimum cost would be useful too. Then I can decide whether I should bother the builders(?) for more accurate quotations.

What did you want to fill it with? Might I recommend Corona and lime?

That's a girls drink. I prefer Sol.

Use the tap, and pay the $100 fine if they get around to it

If you ask some of your local pool builders, they should be happy to dump their soil into your pool, as they otherwise have to pay to get rid of it when digging out someone elses pool.

We saved $500 by arranging somewhere local for our pool diggers to dump our excavated soil, rather than them take it to where they normally do.

It would of course depend on easy access to your pool...

Would pool builders be the people who would fill in a pool?

When you say "fill in a pool" rather than "fill a pool", I assume you are talking about filling it with something other than water.

I'm not really sure who would be best for that, but it may depend on exactly how you want to fill the pool in.

I have seen one pool filled with sand, and it made a good sand pit for kids to play in.
I have also seen one filled with concrete, but that seems an expensive option, although much easier to do, if access is difficult for other options.
Filling with soil could be the cheapest option, if you can get the soil for free, hence me suggesting a pool builder, as they will always have soil to get rid of from their new pool installations.

Why are you wanting to fill it in ?
and do you want to fill it temporarily, so it could be re-used, as a pool again, later ?

Yes I am looking at filling it in with something other than water. I have had enough of looking after it by which I mean clearing out leaves, twigs, buds and bugs. The skimmer box needs clearing out once or twice a day and the barracuda gets clogged just as much. The area around the pool is equally affected. Ideal solution would be to nuke next door's trees but filling in the pool and transforming it into a garden that we can use all year around sounds more economical.

I had a similar problem with my neighbours tree. They dropped loads of really tiny leaves, and it caused me, and the filter, no end of trouble.

I considered my options to destroy the tree, or build a really high screen between us, but then just asked them if they really wanted to keep the tree.
It turned out that they were not over keen on it either, so I offered to have it removed for them. $110 to the local tree remover and my problems have gone.

If you do want to fill it in, I would think seriously about options that would leave it open to be re-used in the future if possible. Pools are not cheap to install.

Pity I didnt know about you needing your pool filled in when my mil was visiting.

Just how big is she

I have had two quotes for $1800 and $2000 just to trim off the overhanging branches. Complete removal would cost a lot more. That is the largest offending tree as there are others.

I doubt that I would look back if we made it into a lawn. Is it likely to affect the price of my property?

The people at the back of us who's pool was under non-native trees growing from our strata land paid to have them cut down. Now they have a nice clean pool and we have a great clear view of their screeming kids.

... and of their mum and dad too eh!

That'll teach you to put to much acid in their pool