Above Ground Concrete Block Swimming Pool

Like a semi inground pool an above ground concrete pool needs retaining walls to sustain the pressure from the thousands of gallons of water.

Above ground concrete block swimming pool.

This is just one method for building a concrete swimming pool. In some areas of the country the ground is too hard as it is mostly rock or hard clay. It provides the wall footing and reinforcement designs for building above ground and in ground icf pools cisterns and water basins. These areas have to be dug up and or chipped away into a flat area and then sand or limestone is brought in for leveling.

First establish the size of the swimming pool and the location. We used lintel block normally used over doors and windows to wrap rebar around the pool every 8 inches horizontally. Retaining walls can get pricy 7 000 to 20 000 each so that s where most of the added cost comes in. A concrete barrier between the liner and this.

The buildblock icf swimming pool engineering manual is intended to provide prescriptive requirements for the design of buildblock building systems icf in ground and above ground reinforced concrete swimming pools. Stacking the blocks with cores lined up put a rebar vertically every 8 inches. The vast majority of above ground swimming pools are built directly on the ground.