Swimming Pool Removal in Fort Wayne

A pool you have stopped swimming in is not free to keep. It still takes chemicals, a cover, a pump and your time, and an unused pool is the kind of thing a buyer's inspector writes up. Taking it out turns that part of the yard back into ground you can actually use.

There are two ways to do it and we will walk you through both on site. A partial removal breaks the walls and floor up, drops the material into the hole and backfills over the top. It is faster and cheaper and it is what most homeowners pick. A full removal pulls the entire shell out of the ground and hauls it away. It costs more and takes longer, but it leaves the cleanest ground to build on later, and it is the version that tends to come up if you are selling.

The concrete decking around a pool is usually heavier than the pool itself, and it is the part people forget to ask about. We break it out with the excavator and haul it off with everything else. Fencing, pumps, filters, heaters and the old liner go at the same time.

Once the hole is filled we compact it and grade it so water runs away from the house instead of toward it. Some settling over the first couple of years is normal on any backfilled pool, and we would rather tell you that up front than have you find out about it later.

Above-ground pools are a much smaller job, usually a single day. We drain it, cut the walls down, pull the deck if there is one, and load the whole thing out.