How pool installation access affects your new pool project
Will a more difficult pool installation access affect the pool project and price negatively? Learn all about what is needed to access your backyard to install your new fibreglass swimming pool. A lot of people are afraid about the access to their house. First of all, we need to stress that everything is possible. The ideal situation is represented by a flat, open block where the pool builder can directly drive in with the equipment. That would enable the builder to use the most efficient (big) machinery available. However, our dealers have installed Compass pools in some very difficult conditions. We have had cases when our technique even involved craning the pool over the house.
In most cases, the pool installation access is satisfactory. When building a new home, you have the privilege of thinking of the pool before you build the house so that the pool builders can easily access your backyard before the house blocks the access.
A great question we’re often asked is, if I’m going to build a house, how do I go about planning the pool? If it is such that you’ve got a block that when the house is built, you’re going to lose your access, it’s really important to consider putting the pool in first. At Compass, we call that a sleeper pool. So you can certainly come to us and talk to use about installing a sleeper pool.
The other consideration is, if you’re going to have access, we can certainly put the pool in after the house is built. But the consideration might be, if it’s going to be anywhere near the house for example, you want to make sure you consult with your builder and ensure that the footings for that house are constructed in such a way that it lets you come up and excavate near the house. So there are those sorts of considerations that must be taken into account.
I talk to a lot of people have anxiety about access to their house. The first thing to let you know is just about everything is possible. Ideally, we’d turn up at a block, it would be flat, we would have no house in that spot and we could drive straight in with all the equipment. Realistically when a pool is built, we literally want to turn up with the biggest digging machine and excavator and as many tipper trucks, usually three, as we can, to keep running that fill out of that property.
Most properties that we consider have great access are properties that you can pretty much drive a car to where you want to put the pool. That is pretty much as good as it gets in most cities today. Outside of the city, on rural properties and so forth, that is an added bonus because it is often very easy to get to the site you want to put the swimming pool.
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