Tterribilis Posted September 13, 2017 Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 (edited) I need some help, guys. I think i'm in over my head. Yes, that was a pool pun =) We're building a pool on the side of a fairly steep mountain, in central Mexico. We've dug down to bedrock, and built a concrete and rebar reinforced stone box . All of the walls are interconnected, and are 5 feet thick at the base, and 2 feet thick at the tops. The columns in the walls are connected to concrete and rebar cross members in the floor.base of the box. and the box is about 6 feet deep at it's leading edge. The plan is to fill that with 30' X 30" box with crushed stone and then put a fiberglass pool in it. The problem is that I don't know anything about the weight distribution of crushed stone and when i sit a 70 ton bowl of water on it....what the outward pressure on those walls will be. I know that if you build a mound of crushed stone...you can drive a 40 ton excavator onto it and the sides of the mound don't move at all.....but that's not in a box...and it's not 70 tons. If we were home in the states, i could rely on code enforcement to help me with his problem....but there's no such thing as code where we are, and there's no yellow pages to just dial up a civil engineer. Can anyone tell me anything about the weight distribution of crushed stone as a base aggregate? Edited September 13, 2017 by Tterribilis spelling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mdorety44 Posted October 7, 2017 Report Share Posted October 7, 2017 4 to 6 inches of 3/8 stone on the bottom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mdorety44 Posted October 7, 2017 Report Share Posted October 7, 2017 Also over dig the perimeter of the pool 1.5 feet all the way around the fiberglass pool. Back fill with 3/8 stone just like the bottom of the pool all the way to the coping of the pool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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