Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Sep 07, 2009 3:39 pm I'd really appreciate some advice regarding our pool installation disaster (there's no other word for it!). We contracted a premium pool company to install a 8m x 4m concrete pool, as part of building our new home. After every cost variation imaginable, and lots of very unethical behaviour on their part, we parted company. We have spent 18k, and basically have a hole in the ground, with reo, with the sides starting to collapse in. We now want to salvage this pool, and are thinking about the best way to proceed. We have considered cleaning the area up and dropping in a fibreglass pool, but have been advised by a reputable fibreglass pool installer that it would be cost prohibative, having to use a crane at 8k a day etc. So we are now back to square one. Can anyone suggest the way to go from here? Do we hire a landscaper to finish the job, or individual contractors (though would need someone to co-ordinate these trades). Any advice / recommendations would be really appreciated, and hopefully help to restore our sanity after this disaster! Re: Pool Advice Desperately Needed - Sydney 2Sep 07, 2009 6:11 pm contact these folks for some good advice. Might be best not to mention the business and story behind it but more about what they'd suggest to a potential pool owner who has not had a good experience with the industry they represent. http://www.spasansw.com.au/ You may have a way out. Re: Pool Advice Desperately Needed - Sydney 3Sep 07, 2009 7:21 pm Thanks for the advice, fu manchu. We did seek some informal advice from spasa, but it involved showing evidence of wrong-doings etc, and became too messy. We really want to put the situation behind us, and just move on. I'm wandering whether anyone has engaged a builder or individual trades to build a pool, rather than a pool company. I'd be interested in their experiences, and whether there are any particular things to watch out for in finishing the pool in this way. I'm thinking that this is the way to move forward.. Re: Pool Advice Desperately Needed - Sydney 4Sep 07, 2009 9:09 pm My mate is a granno (concreter) and he made his own pool. It's fantastic I meant with spasa that they may know of a specific member who would be willing to finish it off. Re: Pool Advice Desperately Needed - Sydney 5Sep 07, 2009 9:48 pm For my $0.02c... If the section of the pool that is finished and the reo is ok, ...then it should just be a case of gluing and shotcreting. Maybe some fillet welding etc. ...and finishing as per normal. Heaps of the cost is in site excavasions, unless you can use the spoils JAT Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Pool Advice Desperately Needed - Sydney 6Sep 08, 2009 7:56 am Hi, Thanks for all of the advice. Fu Manchu, I see what you mean, it is probably worth a try get a referral from spasa. We have been advised that the reo probably needs to be removed, and new stuff re-fitted. Gas, electricity and plumbing have all been installed, so I guess the job is from the excavation on. I think a pool builder / builder would be able finish the job, it's just a matter of finding a reputable one! Yesterday we went to the local pool shop, and they have given us the name of someone who may be interested in doing the job. Apparently this situation is not at all uncommon - I think you could almost set up a business doing this alone! Thanks again for the advice so far, and please keep it coming in! Regards, julesi Re: Pool Advice Desperately Needed - Sydney 8Sep 09, 2009 9:40 pm Hi Julesi, How horrible about your pool! I hope you can find someone to finish it off for you. This is the last thing you want to happen when you are pool building. Now I am crossing my fingers that our pool guys are not the same Good luck!! Re: Pool Advice Desperately Needed - Sydney 10Sep 10, 2009 9:17 am Thanks everyone for your support and advice. Ari, we have been told that the reo needs to be removed and new reo needs to go in - I'm not sure exactly why, but it could have something to do with the fact that the pool resembles a swamp at the moment! The area is pretty overgrown with grass etc, and there is always a small pool of water at the bottom. We are lucky to have a good arrangement with our neighbour, in that he pumps the water out of the hole for his vege gardens and water tanks! I do have some pictures, but didn't want to post them as they may cause offence to some viewers! (It's not a pretty sight). We haven't heard from the person referred to us from the pool shop, so I think we are giving up on that idea also. We do have the option of going to a landscaper and I know that they may be prepared to fix it, but I'm pretty sure this would not be the most economical option. I wish I could just snap my fingers and a pool rescue team would materialise and make the mess go away..lol. Thanks again to all for your help. Regards, Julesi Thanks again Simeon for being so elaborate. Appreciate it. Its gives us a very idea. Kind Regards 4 3646 Hi All, I engaged a tradie to install concrete retaining wall 600-800mm high over 32 meters in Victoria. Sleepers are 200*75*2000 mm installed over 17 steel posts. I… 0 6889 |