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Down-sizing An Inground Pool/spa?


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We have a large in-ground pool and a 10-person in-ground spa at our Tucson house. Both are larger than we prefer, for water costs, time to heat the spa, etc. Does anyone have any experience to share with making an existing pool or spa smaller? Are the costs exorbitant (e.g. as much as a new stricture)?

Thanks--Mark

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We have a large in-ground pool and a 10-person in-ground spa at our Tucson house. Both are larger than we prefer, for water costs, time to heat the spa, etc. Does anyone have any experience to share with making an existing pool or spa smaller? Are the costs exorbitant (e.g. as much as a new stricture)?

Thanks--Mark

The following applies if your pool is gunite/plaster/marcite, whatever you want to call it:

If the existing plumbing checks out on a pressure test, and you are not changing the basic layout or any of the filter equipment, then it should be less than building a new pool.

Also, the existing stucture has to be sound. no MAJOR beam cracks, etc... If it's ok, then you are looking at some demo work to prep the pool for new gunite or shotcrete. Ideally, you want to expose some rebar and tie into it for the cage for the smaller pool. you would save most of the excavation, plumbing, and filter equipment costs of a new pool.

Not to mention you could probably do it without a permit (I mean do it, not that it would be 100% legal to do)

We have done a few "pool inside a pool" jobs and they came out ok.

If your plumbing leaks and you want to replace the filter equipmentk, then it's probably better to demo it out of there and start over

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