How do you fill in a swimming pool?

[meateatingveggie]

Looking at a property to renovate that bizarrely has a heated pool in the garden. Really out of place.. it's not a big house or a big garden.

We wouldn't want it ( or be able to afford the running costs). I'm imagining filling it in would be very costly ( although plenty of rubble would be available knocking the place about!)

Anyone have any experience?

I think if you empty a swimming pool with the intention of keeping 'the hole' you need to do it very slowly over a number of days to allow the ground to not heave (having removed the weight of the water which will be several tons) and lift the pool or 'break its back'.

"your garden made perfect" tonight (BBC2 7pm) features a couple with a derelict pool they can't afford to fill in.

That pool on Your Garden Made Perfect needed significant work. It was not a functioning pool and we’re fooled by the vendor in thinking it was. It needed £40k repairs.

They should have gotten a pool survey and deduct repair costs off the price of the house.

Our pool needed a small leak repaired. We did a proper survey with a guy who went into the swimming pool with his diving gear to examine every nook and cranny. Took him a morning.

Yes, but the OP was considering filling hers in. The blurb for this programme seemed to imply they were showing an alternative.

Just had a look at Your Garden Made Perfect... it's an old one I've seen before. I won't say what the end result is but it's not something that would suit the house, garden, or me.

I'm still quite keen to view the house in question... OH digging his heels in.

If you won't use the pool and can't afford to fill it in I wouldn't even look at it. Someone else might look at it and want to keep it. Might even put a roof on it so can be used all year.