"ff" wrote in message
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A neighbor has an old pool which is really poor condition and would like
to just
fill it in and use the space for something else. Question is, what is
the cheapest
and easiest way to fill a big hole in the backyard as far as labor and
materials?
Preferably a do it yourself job, no backhoe available. Just a pickup and
some
wheel barrows. It's 8 feet at the deepest and about 12 x 20 ft.

If the area is not going to be used for a few years, find some pools going
in and offer to let them dump. If there's no holes in the bottom, a couple
of good rains will make a nice bog. Round here you can find dollar labor by
the bus stops. I get waved at quite a bit in my pickup and it ain't the
looks. The best way is the holes, then ABC as they call it down here.
Basically a mixture of dirt, sand, rocks, crushed stuff. Used under
roadbeds cause it packs well so no settling. Going the cheap route I'd hit
job sites where the concrete is getting busted up. Of course you'd have to
deal with settling and that will depend on what he wants to use it for.
Vegetable garden probably doesn't matter. Jacuzzi on a poured slab does.

Joel. phx


I was considering sections of corrugated steel culvert pipe surrounded
by rock and gravel but I'm no civil engineer.

ff