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Above Ground Pool

  • Can You Partially Bury An Above Ground Pool?
  • How Deep Can You Get An Above Ground Pool?
  • How Long Do Above Ground Pools Last?
  • How Much Does It Cost To Install An Above Ground Pool?
  • What Is The Best Above Ground Pool?

Inground Pool

  • Are Cracks In Pool Plaster Normal?
  • Are Gunite Pools Rough?
  • Can Gunite Pools Be Salt Water?
  • Can Gunite Pools Leak?
  • Can I Build My Own Inground Swimming Pool?
  • Can I Make My Swimming Pool Bigger?
  • Can You Expand an Existing Pool?
  • Can You Include A Pool In Your Construction Loan?
  • Can You Paint Pool Bottom?
  • Can You Put Lights in a Fiberglass Pool?
  • Can You Tile Over Existing Pool Tiles?
  • Do Concrete Pools Crack?
  • Fill A Pool: How Much Does It Cost To Fill A 20,000 Gallon Pool?
  • How Deep Are Most Inground Pools?
  • How Do I Build My Own Inground Pool?
  • How Do I Choose A Pool Tile?
  • How Do I Fix An Inground Pool Crack?
  • How Long Does Pool Plumbing Last?
  • How Much Does A 12×24 Inground Pool Cost?
  • How Much Does A 18×36 Inground Pool Cost?
  • How Much Does A Fiberglass Inground Pool Cost?
  • How Much Does A Pool Remodel Cost?
  • How Much Does a Vinyl Liner Pool Cost?
  • How Much Does It Cost To Build an Inground Pool?
  • How Much Does It Cost To Repair A Gunite Pool?
  • How Much Does It Cost To Run Pool Electrical?
  • How Much Does Pool Tile Installation Cost?
  • How Much Is a Concrete Inground Pool?
  • How Much Is a Negative Edge Pool?
  • How Much Is an Indoor Pool?
  • Is A Gunite Pool Better Than Vinyl?
  • Is Having An Inground Pool Worth It?
  • Is Pool Coping Necessary?
  • What Are The Disadvantages Of A Fiberglass Pool?
  • What Does It Cost To Fill A Pool?
  • What Is Coping?
  • What is the Average Cost of a Fiberglass Pool?
  • What Is The Best Brand Fiberglass Pool?
  • What Is The Best Pool Tile?
  • What is the Cheapest Inground Pool Shape?
  • What is the Cheapest Inground Pool?
  • What is the Cheapest Way to Install an Inground Pool?
  • What Is The Cost To Resurface A Pool?
  • What Is The Difference Between A Gunite Pool And A Shotcrete Pool?
  • What Is The Healthiest Pool System?
  • What Size Breaker Do I Need For An Inground Pool?
  • What Type of Inground Pool Lasts the Longest?
  • What Type Of Tile Is Best For Inground Swimming Pools?
  • Why are Gunite Pools So Expensive?
  • Will Fiberglass Pools Crack?

Pool Construction

  • Can a General Contractor build a Swimming Pool?
  • Can You Shoot Gunite In The Rain?
  • Do You Need A Permit To Remodel A Pool?
  • How Close To The Property Line Can You Build A Pool?
  • How Do I Install a Fiberglass Pool?
  • How Do I Replace My Pool Plumbing?
  • How Do You Build A Gunite Pool?
  • How Do You Build A Pool?
  • How Do You Build An Indoor Pool?
  • How Do You Build Pool Steps?
  • How Do You Excavate An Inground Pool?
  • How Do You Fix Exposed Rebar In A Pool?
  • How Do You Install A Pool Ladder?
  • How Do You Make A Pool Step By Step?
  • How Do You Put Pool Rebar?
  • How Do You Repair A Gunite Pool Crack?
  • How Do You Replace A Fiber Optic Pool Light with an LED?
  • How Do You Replaster a Pool?
  • How Is A Pool Plumbed?
  • How is Pool Occupancy Calculated?
  • How Long Does A Pool Remodel Take?
  • How Long Does It Take For A Gunite Pool To Cure?
  • How Long Does It Take To Rebar A Pool?
  • How Long Does It Take To Shoot Gunite?
  • How Long Does Pool Excavation Take?
  • How Much Do Pool Contractors Charge?
  • How Much Does It Cost To Build a Gunite Pool?
  • How Much Does It Cost To Build Your Own Pool?
  • How Much Does It Cost To Excavate a Pool?
  • How Much Does It Cost To Have A Pool Hole Dug?
  • How Much Does It Cost To Pour Concrete Around A Pool?
  • How Much Does It Cost To Rebar A Pool?
  • How Thick Should A Gunite Pool Be?
  • How Thick Should Swimming Pool Walls Be?
  • Is A Pool Main Drain Necessary?
  • Is Gunite Stronger Than Concrete?
  • Is It Hard To Build A Swimming Pool?
  • What Do I Need to Know About Pool Construction?
  • What Do You Need to Build an Inground Pool?
  • What Does a Pool Contractor Do?
  • What Does a Pool Electrician Do?
  • What Equipment Do You Use to Dig a Pool?
  • What Happens If You Build a Pool Without a Permit?
  • What Is A Mechanics Lien And Why Did I Receive One From My Pool Contractor?
  • What Is A Raised Bond Beam?
  • What Is The Best Deck Material To Use Around A Pool?
  • What Size Is Pool Plumbing?
  • What Type Of PVC Is Used For Pool Plumbing?

Pool Equipment

  • Are Automatic Pool Cleaners Worth It?
  • Can I Put My Pool Pump A Timer?
  • Can You Enclose Pool Equipment?
  • Do Pool Pumps Use A Lot Of Electricity?
  • Does A Pool Pump Need To Be On A Dedicated Circuit?
  • How Do Automatic Pool Cleaners Work?
  • How Do I Install A Chlorinator?
  • How Do I Install A Pool Cover?
  • How Do I Install A Pool Heater?
  • How Do I Install A Pool Liner?
  • How Do I Install A Pool Pump?
  • How Do You Set A Timer On A Pool Filter?
  • How Long Do Robotic Pool Cleaners Last?
  • How Much Does A Pool Sweep Cost?
  • How Much Does An Automatic Pool Cover Cost?
  • How Much Does It Cost To Install a Pool Heater?
  • How Much Does It Cost To Install A Pool Pump Timer?
  • How Much Does It Cost To Install a Pool Pump?
  • How Much Space Do You Need For Pool Equipment?
  • Is A Salt Water Pool Better?
  • Is Hayward Pool Equipment Good?
  • Is It Better To Run A Pool Pump At Night Or Day?
  • Is Jandy Pool Equipment Good?
  • Is Pentair Pool Equipment Good?
  • What is An Automatic Pool Chlorinator?
  • What is the Best Automatic Chlorinator?
  • What is the Best Automatic Pool Cleaner?
  • What Is The Best Automatic Pool Cover?
  • What Is The Best Brand Pool Skimmer?
  • What Is The Best Pool Sweep?
  • What Is The Best Pool Timer?
  • What is the Most Efficient Way to Heat a Swimming Pool?
  • What Is The Quietest Pool Pump?
  • What Pool Equipment Do You Need For a Pool?
  • What Size Pool Pump Do I Need For A 15,000 Gallon Pool?
  • Where Should I Put My Pool Equipment?
  • Which Is Better Pentair Or Hayward?
  • Who Makes The Best Pool Equipment?
  • Will A Sand Filter Remove Dead Algae?

Pool Features

  • Are beach entry pools more expensive?
  • Are LED Pool Lights Worth It?
  • Can You Add Water Features to an Existing Pool?
  • Can You Install a Pool Light in an Existing Pool?
  • Can You Walk On An Automatic Pool Cover?
  • How Deep Does A Pool Have To Be To Have A Diving Board?
  • How Do Fire Bowls Work In A Pool?
  • How Do UV Pool Systems Work?
  • How Does a Pool Waterfall Work?
  • How Does a Salt Water Pool Work?
  • How Long Do LED Pool Lights Last?
  • How Long Does A Pebble Tec Finish Last?
  • How Much Does A Lazy River Cost?
  • How Much Does a Swim Up Bar Cost?
  • How Much Does It Cost To Install An Automatic Pool Cover?
  • How Much Does It Cost To Install An In Floor Cleaning System?
  • How Much Does It Cost To Replace a Pool Light?
  • How Much Is A Pool Slide?
  • What Are Some Diving Board Alternatives?
  • What Are The Benefits Of A Salt Water Pool?
  • What Are The Best LED Pool Lights?
  • What Are The Different Types Of Pool Finishes?
  • What does an in floor cleaning system do?
  • What Does Pebble Tec Look Like?
  • What Does Pool Finish Mean?
  • What Is A Beach Entry Pool?
  • What Is A Cabo Shelf Or Cabo Ledge?
  • What Is A Grotto?
  • What is a Pebble Tec pool?
  • What Is A Sheer Descent?
  • What is a Splash Pad?
  • What Is A Sun Deck?
  • What is a Vanishing Edge Pool?
  • What Is Better Pebble Tec Or Pebble Sheen?
  • What Is the Best Pool Interior Finish?
  • What Is the Brightest LED Pool Light?
  • What Is The Longest Lasting Pool Finish?

Pool Maintenance

  • Are Pools High Maintenance?
  • Can I Power Wash My Gunite Pool?
  • Can You Acid Wash a Pool Without Draining?
  • Can You Pressure Wash a Vinyl Pool?
  • Can You Resurface a Pool Yourself?
  • Can You Vacuum Algae from a Pool?
  • Do I Need To Acid Wash A Pool?
  • Do You Vacuum A Pool On Backwash Or Waste?
  • How Difficult Is It To Maintain a Pool?
  • How Do I Backwash My Pool Filter?
  • How Do I Empty My Skimmer Basket?
  • How do I find a leak in my swimming pool?
  • How Do I Get Rid Of Pool Algae Fast?
  • How Do I Make My Pool Water Crystal Clear?
  • How Do You Get Rid Of Hot Tub Scale Build?
  • How Do You Maintain a Gunite Pool?
  • How Do You Maintain An Indoor Pool?
  • How Long Do Pool Skimmers Last?
  • How Long Do Pool Vinyl Liners Last?
  • How Many Hours a Day Should a Pool Pump Run?
  • How Much Do Pool Repairs Cost?
  • How Much Does It Cost To Replace a Vinyl Pool Liner?
  • How Much Does Pool Acid Washing Cost?
  • How Often Do You Need To Resurface A Gunite Pool?
  • How Often Should You Do A Pool backwash?
  • How Often Should You Replaster a Pool?
  • Is It Easier To Maintain Salt Water Pool?
  • Is It OK To Run Your Pool Pump 24 Hours A Day?
  • Is It Ok To Swim In A Dead Algae Pool?
  • Is It Ok To Turn Your Pool Pump Off While On Vacation?
  • Is It Safe To Swim In A Cloudy Pool?
  • Should I Do A Pool Backwash After Shocking My Pool?
  • Should I Do A Pool Shock If My Chlorine Level Is High?
  • Should Pool Skimmers Be On All The Time?
  • What are These Brown Stains on the Bottom of My Pool?
  • What Chemicals Do You Need For A Saltwater Pool?
  • What Do You Do After You Shock Your Pool?
  • What If My Pool Has Too Much Chlorine?
  • What Is The Best Pool Resurfacing Material?
  • What is the Easiest Type of Pool to Maintain?
  • What Is Underneath A Vinyl Pool Liner?
  • What Order Do I Add Pool Chemicals?
  • What Pool Chemicals Do I Need to Open My Pool?
  • What Should My Pool Chlorinator Be Set On?
  • Why Do I Have A Green Pool After I Shocked It?
  • Why is the Bottom of My Pool Always Dirty?
  • Will Baking Soda Clear Up A Cloudy Pool?

Swimming Pools

  • Are Fiberglass Pools Worth The Money?
  • Are Gunite Pools the Best?
  • Are Infinity Edge Pools More Expensive?
  • Are Vinyl Liner Pools Good?
  • Are Vinyl Pools Cheaper than Fiberglass Pools?
  • Can I Build a Pool at Any Time of the Year?
  • Can Pool Lights Electrocute You?
  • Can You Change Your Existing Pool Shape?
  • Do Fiberglass Pools Look Cheap?
  • Do I Need A Permit To Build A Swimming Pool?
  • Do I Need A Pool Fence Around My Swimming Pool?
  • Do Vinyl Liner Pools Look Cheap?
  • Does a Swimming Pool Add Value To Your Home?
  • How Are Concrete Pools Made?
  • How Are Fiberglass Pools Made?
  • How Can I Afford a Pool?
  • How Can I Lower My Electricity Bill With My Swimming Pool?
  • How Do Pool Skimmers Work?
  • How Does a Negative Edge Pool Work?
  • How Does a Swimming Pool Chlorinator Work?
  • How Long Does It Take To Build a Pool?
  • How Much Does A Swimming Pool Affect Your Electric Bill?
  • How Much Does It Cost To Have Someone Install a Pool?
  • How Much Pool Evaporation Is Normal?
  • Is a Pool Worth the Money?
  • Is Homeowners Insurance More Expensive With a Pool?
  • Is It Harder to Sell a House With a Pool?
  • Is Pool Investment Bad?
  • Is Pool Painting A Good Idea?
  • Should I Get A Deep End In My Pool?
  • Should I Paint Or Replaster My Pool?
  • What Are The Pros And Cons Of A Fiberglass Pool?
  • What Is A Good Size Pool?
  • What Is The Best Decking To Put Around A Pool?
  • What is the Best Way to Finance a Swimming Pool?
  • What Is The Cheapest Pool Decking?
  • What is the Cost to Install a Deck?
  • What is the Difference between Pool Tile and Regular Tile?
  • What is the Most Expensive Part of Building a Pool?
  • What is the Most Low Maintenance Pool?
  • What is the Most Popular Pool Shape?
  • What is the Most Popular Pool Size?
  • What Is The Pool Drain At The Bottom Of A Swimming Pool For?
  • What Pool Depth Is Best For My Pool?
  • What Pool Type Is Best?
  • Why Is It Called an Infinity Pool?
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How Do You Excavate An Inground Pool?

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  • Things to consider when excavating an inground pool
    • Identify underground cables and obstacles
    • Mark the inground pool area
    • Excavate the pool based on the required pool depth
    • Dig the deep end of the pool
    • Form the inground pool layout
    • Clean up the area
  • In summary
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Excavation is usually the first step in building an inground pool. It determines the pool layout and foundation. So, pool builders need to conduct this process carefully. This way, they will simplify all the other steps involved in pool construction. When you plan to excavate an inground pool, below are the things you should do.

How Do You Excavate An Inground Pool?

Things to consider when excavating an inground pool #

Identify underground cables and obstacles #

Identify and mark all underground obstacles. This way, you can construct the inground pool in a safe place. One way to do this is to contact your local authorities to perform a site inspection. They identify all underground cables that could interfere with the pool construction. Most of them will highlight these areas using a permanent marker. Besides electrical cables, check for other things like sprinklers and roots. All in all, ensure the site is clean and safe for construction.

Mark the inground pool area #

After identifying all underground utilities, mark the area you want to install the inground pool. Of course, the marks have to match your preferred pool layout. Once you do this, it would be much easier to start digging. Follow the pool size and shape requirements. Get rid of all weeds and grass around the pool space.

Excavate the pool based on the required pool depth #

Begin excavating the pool area using excavation equipment. Ensure the depth of the hole matches the depth of the pool. If your inground pool has multiple depths, the shallow end should have less height.

Dig the deep end of the pool #

After digging the shallow end of the pool:

  1. Concentrate on the deep sections of the pool.
  2. Start working from the corners to foster an even slope.
  3. Ensure that you hire a pool expert to do this for you.
  4. Digging the deep end section of the pool requires expertise.

Form the inground pool layout #

Begin shaping the pool based on the layout. Develop all the free-flowing and curved lines of the pool. As you do this, pay keen attention to the pool’s measurements.

Clean up the area #

After coming up with your pool area:

  • Get rid of all dirt particles.
  • Collect and sweep any papers, among other debris.
  • Use an effective brush to sweep the area.

In summary #

Some of the equipment you will require to excavate an inground pool includes an excavation truck and a dump truck. It would be best to hire a professional pool contractor to excavate the inground pool. However, if you desire to do it yourself, note that it can be tiresome and time-consuming. Since excavation sets the pool’s foundation, you should do it to your level best. Additionally, always check the weather forecast before setting a day for excavation. Digging the pool area on a rainy day is not a walk in the park.

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Table of Contents
  • Things to consider when excavating an inground pool
    • Identify underground cables and obstacles
    • Mark the inground pool area
    • Excavate the pool based on the required pool depth
    • Dig the deep end of the pool
    • Form the inground pool layout
    • Clean up the area
  • In summary

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