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Swimming Pool Demolition and Structural Backfill

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What happens here

The first major physical step involves the complete demolition and removal of the existing concrete swimming pool. This is performed using heavy machinery, specifically an excavator, which drops a large boulder to spider-crack and break up the bottom of the pool. Once broken, all concrete debris is removed from the site. The excavated pool area is then backfilled with structural fill soil, which is subsequently compacted using a plate compactor. Adequate compaction is crucial to prevent future sinking and settling of the ground. However, care must be taken not to over-compact the top layer, as this would negatively impact the root growth of future plants.

Goal: Prepare the site by removing the old pool and establishing a stable, compacted base.

Tools and materials

  • Excavator Genadek — Breaking up concrete, lifting large debris, moving soil
  • Large Boulder — Used as a heavy impact tool to break the concrete pool base
  • Plate Compactor Wacker — Compacting structural fill soil to prevent settling
  • Skid-steer Loader New Holland — Moving and grading soil, hauling debris
  • Structural Fill Soil — Filling the void left by the swimming pool and providing a stable foundation

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made to do that but a backyard pond requires a lot of maintenance and what we decided to do is we redirected the customer into removing the swimming pool and creating these Gardens in the back of her yard so the first thing that has to be done when we come in and attempt to do something like this is we use our secret weapon which is this Boulder that you see here we drop the Boulder down and spyder the bottom of the swimming pool that loosens up the debris so that we can come in and easily remove it you'll see little tiny pieces we get all of that out we remove a hundred percent of that concrete and then we bring in structural fill soil and you can tell in this picture that we're packing it we're removing all the pipes now we've got to be careful that we don't compact too high up into the root zone of the garden we want to make sure that we have enough loose soil at the top that the guard the roots can grow down and into it but if we don't do the right level of compaction you're going to have sinking and settling now there is a special blend of soil for different types of gardens and in this case we knew that

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