How It Works | Oklahoma City Pool Demolition

Step by step

1. Site review and method decision

Access is measured, shell construction identified, and the partial-versus-full decision made against what you intend to do with the space afterwards.

2. Permits and disconnections

The demolition permit is pulled, utilities to the pool equipment are located and disconnected properly, and the drainage inspection is scheduled into the sequence.

3. Drain and demolish

Water is pumped down and discharged appropriately, then the shell is broken up to the extent the chosen method requires. Rebar is cut and separated for recycling where present.

4. Backfill in compacted lifts

Fill goes in in layers, each compacted before the next. This is slow and unglamorous and is precisely what you are paying for. Ask to see it happening.

5. Final grade and handover

The surface is graded to shed water away from the house, topsoil placed, and documentation of the permit and any compaction testing handed over for your records.

What you can do before we arrive

None of this is required — it just makes the visit quicker.

Decide honestly whether anything might ever be built on that footprint, because that single answer chooses partial or full for you.
Check with your local building department about permits and whether a compaction report is required, before you take quotes rather than after.
Find out how pool water must be discharged locally; chemically treated water often cannot go into a storm drain and this is a real cost.
Photograph the yard, the access route and any gates, walls or trees a machine would have to get past, and share those with everyone quoting.
Tell your insurer and check whether your policy or your mortgage has anything to say about the works.
Budget for the ground to settle and need topping up over the following year or two, and for landscaping to be a separate exercise.

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