Inground Pool Kit Excavation Tips

Inground Pool Kit Excavation Tips

Take a look at the inground pool kit excavation tips from Pool Warehouse. These tips will most assuredly help with the construction and building process of your new DIY swimming pool kit.

Question: How deep should I excavate the shelf/shallow end of an inground pool kit from Pool Warehouse?
Answer: Once you establish the in-ground swimming pool kit elevation-benchmark, dig/excavate 42″down, which is the height of the standard height of the Hydra, Pinnacle, or Cornerstone polymer or Samson steel in-ground swimming pool kit wall panel without the aluminum coping attached. This is depth of the shelf around the entire swimming pool kit where the pool wall panels will sit. This pool wall shelf is the same in the shallow end as well as the deep end. The entire shallow end of the pool should be excavated to the same depth as the pool wall panel shelf. You will constantly be using two terms, dig dimensions and finish dimensions. Be sure you understand both terms and how to move between then during the construction of your in-ground swimming pool kit.

Question: How deep should the swimming pool kit hopper in the deep end be excavated?
Answer: Always dig the inground pool kit hopper in the deep end 2″ deeper than the swimming pool kits finish depth. Example: If the finish depth of deep end is 8′, dig hopper area to a depth of 8’2″ from the benchmark or the top of the 42″ swimming pool kit wall panel without aluminum pool coping installed. This will allow for the installation of 2″ of bottom material, such as vermiculite (pool krete/pool crete) or sand-and-cement mixture in the bottom of the swimming pool hopper.

Question: Will excavating the shelf area around the swimming pool kit leave enough room for the swimming pool wall braces?
Answer: The in-ground swimming pool wall panel line you have will dictate the brace size and the amount of over dig in the shelf area. Requirements are as follows: Hydra swimming pool kit wall panels require a 24″ overdig, Cornerstone swimming pool kit wall panels require a 24″ overdig, Pinnacle swimming pool kit wall panels requires a 36″ overdig, Samson Steel swimming pool kit wall panels requires 30″ overdig, Extreme requires a 24″ overdig. These are minimum requirements to allow room for the inground pool kit wall brace and to work in the shelf area.

Inground Pool Kit Excavation Tips – Finish Dimension

Question: What do finish pool kit dimensions refer to?
Answer: Finish pool kit dimensions refer to several areas of the swimming pool. Most of the time they refer to the interior of the pool, both length and width, as well as depth measurements. Example: A 16′ x 32′ rectangle swimming pool kit that is 40″ finish in the shallow end and 8’ finish in the deep end would measure 16′ wide and 32′ long on the interior of the swimming pool kit walls. The depth of the pool would be measured from the top of the pool kit wall (without coping attached) to the finish bottom material. The swimming pool bottom material comes 2″ up the pool wall panels to the finish grade following the entire inside perimeter of the pool kit. Our Polymer inground pool kit wall panels have a scribed line at the 2″ mark.

Question: What standard dimensions are on the drawing you receive with your inground swimming pool kit package?
Answer: All dimensions on your inground swimming pool kit drawing are finish dimensions, with the exception of the pool wall panel-shelf detail. Remember to add 2″ to all depth dimensions to allow for the 2″ of bottom material needed later. This applies to the pool wall panel shelf as well. The pool kit wall panels are 42″ high, and the finish inside the pool is 40″, up 2″ on the pool kit panel. All depth measurements are from the top of the pool wall panel with no aluminum pool coping installed.

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March 29, 2015