Above Ground Concrete Block Swimming Pool

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.

Above ground concrete block swimming pool.

First establish the size of the swimming pool and the location. This is just one method for building a concrete swimming pool. The vast majority of above ground swimming pools are built directly on the ground. It provides the wall footing and reinforcement designs for building above ground and in ground icf pools cisterns and water basins.

We cut the sides out of the base row of block to let rebar and concrete connect the wall and pool floor. 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. Retaining walls can get pricy 7 000 to 20 000 each so that s where most of the added cost comes in. Stacking the blocks with cores lined up put a rebar vertically every 8 inches.

For an 8 block wall pool we want to mark the location 12 larger on all walls. Set stakes at the 4 corners of the dig area cross measure to ensure the dimensions are square. We used lintel block normally used over doors and windows to wrap rebar around the pool every 8 inches horizontally.