Building a swimming pool

How to build a swimming pool DIY

If you have enough space in the garden outside is possible to predict the location of a swimming pool that will feature in our garden and allow our family to enjoy the summer days, from the comfort of your own home.

The idea of ??building a swimming pool is not always completed, most often hampered by the belief related to the difficulty of designing and realization of the same and by the widespread of the high cost for the installation.

This article will cover the installation of a swimming pool oval in shape, and indicate the main steps for mounting a DIY kit quickly and inexpensively.

The Italian legislation, with regard to the realization of a semi-underground structures or buried, is not very clear and sometimes misinterpreted. But certainly, in order to build a swimming pool, you must obtain a permit, you can not build a swimming pool without it. Omit to ask permission will require a penalty for both the designer for both the manufacturer and the owner. Therefore, before starting the construction work is necessary to inquire in his community, with regard to the feasibility of its implementation.

The Criminal Appeal has established: Constitute construction building for which the grant is necessary not only those of realization of artefacts which rise above the soil, but also those in whole or in part buried and otherwise transform the area durably committed by the works themselves. (Criminal Appeal Sec. III, 29 November 2000, no. 12288).

Positioning and preparation of the soil

First, it is essential to carefully choose the ideal place to install our pool to be sunny and sheltered from the wind. In addition, the affected land to the placement of the swimming pool must have a compact structure and not carried over.
In carrying out the excavation will take into account the extra space (50 cm on each side), which is necessary for the construction of the perimeter structure. The excavation will then be greater than the size of 1 m of each side of the pool.

- Implementation of the slab and retaining walls

The base slab of reinforced concrete must have a thickness of at least 12-15 cm and must be perfectly smooth and level.
The two side walls of the swimming pool must be made ??of reinforced concrete leaving the anchor irons in the upper part. The height of the retaining walls must be equal to the pool liner. We recommend using hollow stones construction of 24 cm. The individual layers of the wall must be placed in an alternate course and reinforced with structural steel.
The stone quarries of building are then filled with lean concrete of cement.

- Mounting base profiles

At this point you can connect the individual elements of the base profile forming an oval with the help of tubing junction.
The basic profile completed must match perfectly with the perimeter of the pool the previous track.
The exact length of the base profile can be adjusted after mounting the sheet metal, by cutting with a hacksaw the last segment of the profile.

- Mounting plate end and junction

Are positioned in the middle of the oval obtained with the profile of the base, a sturdy table and leans over the rolled sheet.
The seats preincise for the skimmer and the nozzle inlet must be located in the upper part.
Then slowly unrolls the steel wall and insert the sheet open gradually over a basic profile.


At this point you cut the branch preincise for the skimmer and the nozzle and is Limano edges by removing any burrs.
After entering the entire sheet in the basic profile is passed to the joining of the ends of the sheet by means of the profile groove.

- Laying of the coating (liner)

First of all, before you place the felt on the bottom of the pool, make sure that the concrete slab is perfectly smooth and free of bumps.
It enters the tank using a scale (wearing rubber boots) and lies at the center of the pool liner.
It takes place the liner from the center towards the outside in such a way that the weld between the bottom and the vertical part is located at equal distance from the base-wall.
The coating (liner) is slightly smaller than the wall in order to avoid folds and therefore it is essential to pull the edge (dilating) during the coupling (with low temperatures of more and with high temperatures of less).

Fill tank

Filling swimming pool

After installing the handrail and verified that the liner is secured, eliminating any wrinkles on the bottom, you start to fill the tank with water to a level of about 2 cm, so as to pave the remaining folds with a brush or with their feet.
Now you can finally fill the bath without interruption and connecting the pipes to the system of filtering.

Filling of the outer wall of the tank

The outer wall of the tank must be filled with concrete lean cement to a thickness of 20 cm.
Now our pool is ready for fun and relaxation of our family.
The cost of this kit from a base price of about ? 3800.00 VAT and transport included.