Swimming pool removal - pointers please

We are considering a house with an above ground fibreglass pool. It's a big one, good condition, lovely decking and fencing etc too. However, we want the garden over the pool.

So questions

If it is to big to fit out in one piece through the garage what are our options to remove it? Crane over the roof? Am guessing this is expensive. Pool removal company and if so, anyone know how they tend to work, ie, removal of it all is free and they the tidy it up to sell reconditioned? Drain, dismantle and break up ourselves to dispose of at tip or some such? Advertise it online as free to anyone who wants it who is prepared to remove it at their own time/expense (not our preferred option). Any others I may have missed?

We'd try to reuse the decking and sell the fencing or use elsewhere in the garden perhaps.

http://www.reversepools.com.au/index.html

http://palmcitypools.com/remove-fibreglass-pools/

Or smash it up and take to tip near you (if they accept fibreglass that is).

Thanks I looked at reverse pool but could not see anything for removing fibreglass. They seem to cover in ground pools. We'd just want to lawn over where the pool is.

We want to put in an offer on the house but are trying to work out costs or how big a job it is to remove the pool. Would rather know in advance what we may be facing and if it's thousands of $$ is may change things.

I shall also call a few pool companies in the local area on Monday morning. Adelaide seems to only have one or two pool removal specialists.

Could you try putting an offer in subject to them removing the pool, takes it out of your hands and you don't have to deal with the upheaval

Could you try putting an offer in subject to them removing the pool, takes it out of your hands and you don't have to deal with the upheaval

I doubt they will go to all the hassle themselves of removing it. Its not a small job. Its more us trying to find out how expensive we are talking if its removed and a crane is needed for example or if we break it up ourselves and dispose of the bits. Or get a company in to remove it and recondition it etc.

Wtf! Who moves their swimming pool?! Dig a hole, buy a hose.. turn on the tap. Hey presto.

Wtf! Who moves their swimming pool?! Dig a hole, buy a hose.. turn on the tap. Hey presto.

Us if we buy this house.

Its really of no interest to us. We have beaches, other family members have pools that we can use as and when. We'd rather have an actual garden space we can move in and use than one taken up by a huge pool, decking and fencing.

I doubt they will go to all the hassle themselves of removing it. Its not a small job. Its more us trying to find out how expensive we are talking if its removed and a crane is needed for example or if we break it up ourselves and dispose of the bits. Or get a company in to remove it and recondition it etc.

It's worth asking, we had a huge shipping container in our garden, the guy had won it in a raffle, it was kitted out with 12 x boxes and screens, all army memorabilia etc, yes it looked great inside but from the outside it was a wreck, so much to my children's disgust we made it part of the contract that they removed it and they did.

Our house in the UK was on an acre and when we purchased that we had two static caravans on the land two large ones we thought they would be cheap to remove, but it was going to cost a fortune so we had to pay someone to wreck them which also set us back a fair whack.

Is it a complete fibre glass shell, or is it one similar to the ones that Clark rubber sell?

If its the clark rubber type, they normally have an inner liner to keep the water in, but the outer shell is made up of separate panels. Once drained, they can easily be dismantled. You could either sell it cheap on ebay/gumtree or offer it free to anybody prepared to dismantle it themselves and move it.

If it is a complete shell, you can hire a franna crane to lift it over the house (depending on power lines and trees etc) The hire of a crane could be up to about $1500.00 for the job. (we paid a bit less than that to have ours lifted in, but that was 6 years ago)

Switch to water gardening and turn it into a water feature/pond. Get someone to dig it in and with the soil removed, build a raised rockery and waterfall above it. I've done that in the past and it's not as hard/expensive as it sounds