Landscaping - Swimming pool removal?
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Read above... porcelain slabs are due to be laid on top of the concrete.
Awesome transformation!
Soldato
Cool. I'd still intersperse it with planted areas though and grassed areas for putting my deck chair on.
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Cheers all!
We wanted to go with minimal upkeep of the area, so we'll end up decorating and breaking up the space with pot plants rather than grassed areas - we do have plans for a garden lawn in a separate part of the plot so we won't solely have a concrete jungle out the back
We wanted to go with minimal upkeep of the area, so we'll end up decorating and breaking up the space with pot plants rather than grassed areas - we do have plans for a garden lawn in a separate part of the plot so we won't solely have a concrete jungle out the back
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Hi All, I'm a complete newbie to forums, but I came across this thread and really wanted to understand more about the potential of filling in a pool. I have just bought a house and have a very old pool to deal with. Weighing up the pros and cons of refurb vs infill. Think I am leaning to infill and creating some kind of sunken garden. Zuludawn, your post and experience caught my attention. Are these costs really accurate??? If so I would really like to hear more about how feasible this is. My other issue is that side access to get to the pool is limited to a single door through my garage. So I'm concerned this will hinder how I would get the materials into the garden. Any thoughts, would be much appreciated!
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We do have far too much tarmac! There is a garage at the back of the house, which is integral to the building rather than a separate building, and this will be turned in to our kitchen with a vaulted ceiling with bifold doors looking out on to the pool/garden.
Our plan is along the lines of the below, black being patio which is laid flush with the kitchen floor out of the bifolds, green being a lawn laid to the side, with the existing pool deck extended to our western boundary. A fence would be erected across the driveway, in red, allowing access and keeping our garden/pool hidden from the roadside.
I posted the estate agent listing in another thread once we'd agreed the sale, so here it is for this thread too so all photos can be seen, to help visual what our vision is - https://www.livingroom.gg/buy/property/1502
Just as an update to this vision we had - here's where we're at now (courtesy of Google Maps for recently updating
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