Browse Forums Building A New House 1 May 03, 2020 2:44 pm Hi guys, sorry to bother you on a Sunday afternoon. Did anyone of you build a pool close to the building? How much setback from building were you allowed? Our builder has giving us a quote of appov $10940 worth extra peiring/ drop edge beam to get the pool any closer than 3m from building line. My understanding was its usually 1.2m or 1.5m from building line. Or the distance matching the depth of the pool (1.2m in our case). Please advice me how can I deal with this? 11k seems a tad expensive for extra reinforcement. Another builder we were dealing with before this builder told us they’d allow 1.5m distance from building line. Any guideline on this that I can check myself and show it to my builder? Thanks Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Issues with pool setback from building line 2May 03, 2020 2:53 pm Hi LoveHouse, Each house builder is different and each pool builder will have their own preference too. We built with Wisdom Homes (Sydney builder) and they have a relatively new pool division, so we got them to do our pool too. Our pool is 1m from the house and required additional peering due to this. I should add that our pool and levelling of our backyard also hit rock/shales and that cost me an extra $15k. Our pool, shell and BeadCrete, auto pump and auto PH test and auto dosing was $60k. It included installation of coping but we had to buy it. Another person we know had their pool installed onto the site first (we were told we couldn’t!) and they still don’t have the pool running yet. Re: Issues with pool setback from building line 3May 03, 2020 3:25 pm Thanks for sharing this GLO. Looks like there is a lot of variables involved which we may have to face to face in future and will need to cope as they arise. At this point we are at tender acceptance stage where they are waiting for us to confirm the pool location for their engineering drawing to start. I need to decide the location now and confirm them as they will factor in -location of the pool for marking no service zone -location of the pool so that extra piering and drop edge beam in finalized in the plan and contract We have 6m uninterrupted side access so we can install the pool later. But looks like we need to decide on the pool exact location now. Also we want to include the pool quote into bank valuation and also build the pool as close to building completion as possible. GLO Hi LoveHouse, Each house builder is different and each pool builder will have their own preference too. We built with Wisdom Homes (Sydney builder) and they have a relatively new pool division, so we got them to do our pool too. Our pool is 1m from the house and required additional peering due to this. I should add that our pool and levelling of our backyard also hit rock/shales and that cost me an extra $15k. Our pool, shell and BeadCrete, auto pump and auto PH test and auto dosing was $60k. It included installation of coping but we had to buy it. Another person we know had their pool installed onto the site first (we were told we couldn’t!) and they still don’t have the pool running yet. Re: Issues with pool setback from building line 4May 03, 2020 4:50 pm The addition of the concrete pool adjacent to the House places a load surcharge onto the House footings,hence the need for the piers Move the pool away the depth, if the adjacent deep end is 2m then move it 2m from the House Footing Cheers Chris Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Issues with pool setback from building line 5May 03, 2020 5:00 pm Our pool is between 900 and 1200 from the house, we have 6 piers that are in the zone of influence and therefore need to be deeper and reinforced, we are just paying for the reinforcement and additional concrete, however we are paying the concreter directly, so its just the cost. Unfortunately I don’t know how much that is, but I suspect its a whole lot less than your quote... Re: Issues with pool setback from building line 6May 03, 2020 5:29 pm Hi Chris, we will be getting a fiberglass pool. The shallow end of all the fiberglass pool i can see online are mac 1.2m deep. Hence my undertaker was 1.2m setback from building line would have been enough. Or 1.5m to be on the safe side. 3m setback seems like something I have never heard of. StructuralBIMGuy The addition of the concrete pool adjacent to the House places a load surcharge onto the House footings,hence the need for the piers Move the pool away the depth, if the adjacent deep end is 2m then move it 2m from the House Footing Cheers Chris Re: Issues with pool setback from building line 7May 03, 2020 5:30 pm Hi gogo65 is that a fiberglass pool or concrete pool? gogo65 Our pool is between 900 and 1200 from the house, we have 6 piers that are in the zone of influence and therefore need to be deeper and reinforced, we are just paying for the reinforcement and additional concrete, however we are paying the concreter directly, so its just the cost. Unfortunately I don’t know how much that is, but I suspect its a whole lot less than your quote... Re: Issues with pool setback from building line 8May 03, 2020 5:39 pm LoveHouse Hi Chris, we will be getting a fiberglass pool. The shallow end of all the fiberglass pool i can see online are mac 1.2m deep. Hence my undertaker was 1.2m setback from building line would have been enough. Or 1.5m to be on the safe side. 3m setback seems like something I have never heard of. StructuralBIMGuy The addition of the concrete pool adjacent to the House places a load surcharge onto the House footings,hence the need for the piers Move the pool away the depth, if the adjacent deep end is 2m then move it 2m from the House Footing Cheers Chris I'm guessing your have clay soil and the pool has a hydrostatic relief valve? Then you may require the house footings adjacent to have piers You will need to check the geotech report Ask for an engineering details? Cheers Chris Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Issues with pool setback from building line 9May 03, 2020 6:13 pm We just received revised tender for the build and no engineering report has been done yet, but all these already have been quoted in the tender. I will ask for geoteck report. We have geoteck report from another builder, but probably each builder will have different report. Our pool will be an ordinary fiberglass pool. Not sure of any hydrostatic valve, we haven't selected (or found) a pool company yet. No-one replies or returns calls. We just still at the planning stage and have to let our builder know our decision now. If we want to build any closer than 3m in future, we’ll have to accept the tender! StructuralBIMGuy LoveHouse Hi Chris, we will be getting a fiberglass pool. The shallow end of all the fiberglass pool i can see online are mac 1.2m deep. Hence my undertaker was 1.2m setback from building line would have been enough. Or 1.5m to be on the safe side. 3m setback seems like something I have never heard of. StructuralBIMGuy The addition of the concrete pool adjacent to the House places a load surcharge onto the House footings,hence the need for the piers Move the pool away the depth, if the adjacent deep end is 2m then move it 2m from the House Footing Cheers Chris I'm guessing your have clay soil and the pool has a hydrostatic relief valve? Then you may require the house footings adjacent to have piers You will need to check the geotech report Ask for an engineering details? Cheers Chris Re: Issues with pool setback from building line 10May 05, 2020 2:32 pm Our pool is 450mm from our house (construction of both almost complete) and apart from a few extra piers and a footing along outside of pool (to support post for house above pool) there wasn't really much extra cost. It really wasn't a big deal - from memory maybe $2k - $3k extra cost. I'd suggest try another builder. Hi everyone, Looking for some advise. We are about to build an above ground pool in our backyard. 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