Above ground pool take down?

[Octoberbride03]

Has anybody ever gotten rid of your Above Ground pool without replacing it? We don't use ours at all and I'm wondering how difficult it would be just to get rid of it. Was there a big depression in the ground that needed to be filled once it was gone? My Dh seems to think there would be. My dad says not

I'd really rather get rid of it this spring if i can talk Dh into it. Its not that he wants the pool he just doesn't want to deal with a lot of hassle in taking it down.

TIA

 

[lvanleer]

My parents had a above-ground pool when I was teen and then either while I was in college or right afterwards they took it down....yes there was a partial hole that needed to be filled in however that was because our land sloped downwards so the side closest to the house was partially inground and the back side was above-ground.....now with the grass that has filled in(it's been probably 30 years) you could never tell we had a pool except for the ladder that sitting at the bottom of our wooded hill behind our house....I guess my dad thought he'd just put it on the hill and forget about it....it's still there.

 

[auntie]

We had an 18 foot round (I think )..We had it for some 15 years. We had replaced the lining twice..and frankly it was time to replace the pool or take it down. Kids weren't using it like the used to. All would rather go to the beach. It came down four years ago.
Wasn't that big a deal. We had vemiculite placed underneath the lining. We cleaned that up..and I was going to put grass seed, but having a dog using the yard..I didn't want to deal with his walking through it.
We have a landscaper...he filled in the slight divet in the ground with soil and had sod installed. It wasn't cheap..but it was cheaper than getting a new pool no one would use. LOVE the yard space.
The good thing about an above ground pool is that you can get rid of it pretty easily. Empty out..roll it up..and my husband used a saws-all (again sp.? sorry) to chop it up for the garbage men to take away. Done in a few hours.

 

[LuvOrlando]

I grew up with an above ground and when they wanted to get rid of it they posted in the classifieds. Someone came by to take a look at it, paid for it, broke it down and brought it home. I think the trickiest part was emptying it because it causes such a flood. If I was in your place I'd sell it, let someone else do the work and then plant grass seed, after 3 years all the grass will knit and you'll never be able to tell. I don't think there was a depression in the ground but I suppose that would depend on the make-up of the soil. Good luck!

 

[Octoberbride03]

Thought of doing that with craig's list or some such. Don't know how comfy we really are with that route. The pool is probably about 7-8yrs old. Old owners put it in round about 2yrs b4 we bought it. The pump broke and is long gone. At the time we intended to replace it but didn't have the money, and well 5yrs later we've never used the pool and don't miss it. It is 18ft. round, and surprisingly doesn't take up the whole yard, but eventually we'll go to sell it and I know that'll cut down on interest in the house.

 

[Octoberbride03]

We have a basic sump pump to drain the cover which is shot to heck, and would have to be replaced b4 mosquito season. The Nov. Noreaster and subsequent winter have killed it and we only bought it a yr ago. We'd use the pump to drain the pool. It'd take awhile but it'd be drained.

 

[aprilgail2]

My neighbor got rid of theirs this past summer and they had to bring in a few yards of topsoil to make it even with the rest of the year....there is a big indent when you remove an above ground pool if they leveled it properly when they installed it. I know in part of my yard they had to dig 4 inches to level it with the rest. Hopefully whoever installed it did not use that vermiculite crap or you will have some removing of that you will have to do.

 

[Acklander]

When we bought our house it had an above ground pool in the back yard. I don't know how long it had been there but it left a decent size indent when removed. It didn't bother me much since we were replacing it with an inground pool in the same spot but if we hadn't of been doing that we definitely would have had to do some landscaping.

 

[MIGrandma]

We had a 24' above ground pool given to us years ago (we just had to take it down for the elderly couple). We used it several years when the kids were growing up, but after they were both out on their own the liner developed a tear so we decided to just take it down as it didn't get used much anymore.

We had dug a deeper part, so we did have to fill that in with fill dirt. But then DH put grass seed on it and now you'd never know a pool had been there.

 

[jenrose66]

Dh just took ours down this past September. It wasn't so bad, it took him a few hours by himself and I had to help him a couple times with getting some bolts near the bottom of the pool undone.

What I found grossest was all the spiders that vacated every nook and cranny of the pool as it came down.

There is a sand hole with about a 6 inch indentation in the middle of our yard...my kids love playing in it. We will fill it with grass and dirt this spring.

 

[Octoberbride03]

6 inches doesn't sound bad at all. I'm honestly tired of having the thing in the yard. I'll talk to him about giving it away but I don't think I'd feel right charging money for it, We know the liner will need a HUGE cleaning and of course the pump needs replacing. I almost feel better about just taking it down and having the city come pick it up.