What to do with the pool when rebuilding
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My question is: Do I fill it in due to the cost of renovating plus maintenance? Do I refurbished / modernised to add value to the house? Could I have a 50k litre water tank sitting in my back yard? Purely looking at this as a financial exercise.
A side question is the potential issues of building with having a 50K litre hole in the ground? Thanks
Just seen one guy who is selling his through ebay for $500 and maybe getting the soil from the buyer to fill in hole.
The buyer has to organise all removal costs.
New house + old pool = not nice.
If the pool can be refurbished cheaply, I would keep it. Otherwise, have the builder smash it up when he has the heavy equipment on site, and fill in the hole.
I've contacted 3 interstate companies (I am in Melbourne) on the Internet asking for advice, with not 1 reply. Is anyone in Melbourne thinking about this idea? Happy building!
PS Tam, How do I find this guy on Ebay?
For your dilemma , Sassy, it will probably come down to cost, but if doing it yourself like us, it may be quite feasible and, of course, the importance of the water storage in your particular area will be relevant. Water is going to become an increasingly precious resource and this is an opportunity to store a significant quantity compared with those token little rain tanks they promote as part of sustainable housing.
http://www.elmich.com.au/projects/pool.htm
Accorning to the propaganda: I'll get around 40K Litres when converting my 50K Litre pool. Sounds great. Still many questions about maintenance, cleaning, longevity, faults, so by no means endorsing. Just sounds interesting.
The cost equation for me is (space saved not having an above ground tank + money saved not having to fill + storage capacity) - cost of solution.
Structurally, we are looking at placing a 150UB14 galvanised steel beam the length of the pool and housing in H5 pine joists, then covering the lot with reeded decking.
H5 treated pine would be great and should last about 20 years. We use it in timber cooling towers where the timber is in a constantly wet environment and many last up to 40 years.
It's getting hard to get though, with the EPA trying to eliminate use of CCA treatment.
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