POOL COVERED OVER WITH DECKING RESTORED AFTER 20+ YEARS 

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TV cooks would always talk about the magic of TV as they could have their meal cooked in seconds. The magic of the internet is even greater!

They didn’t even do it

That's some good crack right there 😄

You Are Easily Pleased

​@@danbreen6946 👈 You Are Easily Triggered. Poor Fool

@@danbreen6946 I wasn't... she had to plug her nose...FAIL! 😏 It was alot of work but turned out 👍🏼 great!

You can see that in the REAL video

In California you cant leave a pool like this. You have to crush down the sides, then fill the hole with fill dirt, then topsoil . The mosquitos and drowning hazard. In a lot of areas, you can never build over that area again, nor can you put a pool. There are entire companies whose business it is to bury pools, and home buying inspectors who check there isnt one buried in the yard!

I thought the same thing! The smell....🤮 How did someone think this would be the right way to go

​@@lauralake7430 I did not realize that this is what happened in Cali. Thank you for sharing this info

@@lauralake7430 is this a recent thing because of the water shortage?

@@bikingchupei2447 No, it predates the drought. We've got some invasive mosquitoes moving north that spread nasty diseases. You can't leave standing fresh water like this, because it's a breeding ground for them... and it's also a drowning hazard, as Laura said.

You could tell that Andrew struggled at times, but Sabrina kept on encouraging him to keep up. Girl power 🤙🏽

My partners helping me restore my Ford Capri, it's great working together

very lucky

My ex-wife wouldn’t have lent me a hand.

That's the kind of marriage I want. Hard work always pays off. Great job guys!

Quite gutsy lol. So wholesome.

That’s to much work. Have a pool company install a new updated pool with curves and the like

What they deserve is you to watch the REAL one

Nobody gets years of enjoyment from their pool. Once the novelty wears off after a few weeks, it just becomes a burden to maintain.

@@spankynater4242 If you have kids, or are an avid swimmer, it’s a good move. Swimming is one of the best exercises you can do. So, they have an outdoor fitness facility in their backyard. Plus they can have pool parties. 🎉🎉

@@piper2085 They probably save themselves at least $20,000, to do it themselves.

I used to work at a very large country club pool which was built entirely from 3/8" stainless sheeting over a metal skeleton. The sheets, though very stiff and strong, were not entirely inflexible and if you stomped on the pool bottom you could feel the give and hear an eerie echo.

I worked for a pool company in the late 70s, early 80s while attending college in NC and this was the construction method. Vermiculite or usually sand was used for the pool floor. Concrete was poured behind the metal panels to a certain height and backfilled with dirt. Brought back memories watching this haha.

Looks really old

Most vinyl liner pools are made with that paneling.

Eric what is your company’s name? I live in Tampa too and want to put a pool in. It’s almost impossible to get anyone to come out to give me an estimate! Everyone is so backlogged!!!

I saw something posted on Facebook the other day and the lady had like six different layers of flooring laid in her house. Two different tile layers, plywood, linoleum, and at the very bottom or hardwood floors. She showed a side cut of it and it was literally like three or four inches thick, so weird. No one ever bothered to remove the old flooring they just kept adding new layers 😂

This would drop the value for me. It would cost at least $20,000 to remove this crap and backfill the hole. And then another $50,000 to build a safe real pool farther away from the house.

@@TheChloe1331 that’s not how property value works. It may lower your desire for this property but it raises the market value.

@@DoctorSess Actually it does. There's a huge difference between a cheap, ghetto metal/plastic hole in the ground and a proper pool. That is just an above ground pool in a hole. There's about a $25,000 up to $75,000 difference. The value can be even higher than that depending on the pool and where the property is. And bigger houses WON'T sell if they DON'T have a pool. And bad placement can bring down value, especially if local laws require such things like fencing. Imagine sitting on your covered patio, your pool is 1 ft past that and local laws require 4-5 high fencing. Nobody wants to sit in jail in their backyard. Now make it that cheap ghetto pool, and your value plummets¹. Oh, not to mention, that it makes the rest of your yard relatively unusable if you have to go thru the pool area to get to it. We took advantage of a bad pool placement and knocked $200,000 off our bid. And we got it

@@TheChloe1331 they both still add value to the property… you’re listing your personal reasons you don’t want “an above ground pool in a hole”

I wanted to see the dogs jump in for a swim too!

I wish I was the fly on the wall when the dogs didnt approve , good job

Nope, and that’s not what actually happened. The pool was emptied but trapped over to keep rain water and debris out. Unfortunately the weight of accumulated rain water and aging of the tarp caused tarp to stretch and rip. Some areas a temporary out of season decking is made just for that scenario (but without contaminating the pool).

I don't understand the previous owner's decision. You would get more home equity by just maintaining the pool. I can't imagine this was even legal because if someone fell through the deck because of a rotten board, they just landed in a sespit with a potential broken ankle or leg. It should've been filled in with concrete first.

I was thinking that too. Would’ve had a hazmat suit on.

​@@bknsty14 Not only that. Legionnaires' spreads through suspended water particles/aerosols, so some kind of respiratory protection would have been in order.

You can catch that from a bag of potting mix also ...you gotta die of something ... Nobody gets out alive moo hoo haa haa

Fully agree. Beyond stupid. Get a professional in to do the clean out.

They’re both young and probably have healthy immune systems. They appear to be doing ok.

When you're young you can't wait to get older, when you're older you're constantly trying to turn back the hands of time but it's moving at warp speed when you reach the 40's, the dilemma of life! 😥 ug

These kids have no concept of time, we didn't either, remember the old folks telling us you will pay for that when you get older, of you are going to feel that one? We would laugh, thinking we were invincible. Boy I feel every bit of it and then some! Should have listened to those old folks!

You are so right i hope they make it to the end they were quite a team. I tried hard but didn’t make it to the end

Griffin, You are so right. Youth allows us to think that we can do just about anything, but we surely pay for it when we get older, don't we? So, did you and your wife retire on that same property?

@@Nostalgic_1 No after 25 years, when we finally had it done, we sold it and retired to a new project in FL. LOL That was 5 years ago, and now this one is done. Things move a lot faster when money is not an issue. LOL

Get A Life Billy

​@@danbreen6946 👈 Buy A Clue Danny Boy

Agreed. Hard work and dedication pays off.

there are businesses that will come and maintain the pool for a monthly fee... if nothing is wrong with it, filling it in would cost more than the property value loss...

@@pawpatina don't forget the cost of insurance also. Pool is very high cost of home insurance.

@@Lonewolf0161 not required.

@@pawpatina it is if you want to get a loan for your house just like a vehicle you're required to have insurance the property if you have a loan. And if you want to get a home equity loan again it is required . Or at least in the surrounding states it is. Because if the house burns down with no insurance how will they get the money back ?

@@Lonewolf0161 my insurance didn't change with a gunite pool. I even installed a slide. It did have minimum requirements such as a locking fence.

the covering is the ok part, the disgusting one is to leave it filled with water and no cover...do you have an idea just the quantity of mosquitoes that thing produced ignoring bacterias and all the rest of the nasty stuff?!

They did it the cheap way…..

Homeowner probably wanted to save some money so use the liner but I would have preferred plaster or tiling if it was my pool.

Our pool here in FL...is done the same way as yours in the SW with pebble tech finish. 👍😊

Some pools are concrete without a liner. Depends on the part of the country.

They aren't always lined. Might have something to do with the water table in that particular area

I'm in Michigan and the smell and Mosquitos would have carried the deck off.

I grew up in Washington and the same. My first thought was omg, the mosquitos.

Yes ,your own private “West Nile” factory!😵‍💫

lmao

The couple are from Canada.

What bug eats PVC??

@@alan30189 Underground termites are the worst offender but ants, beetles, and wasps also have. They don't eat it as a food source but if it's in the way of them trying to get to food or build a nest they'll go right through it.

Thought the same thing. All that hard work including digging up the old plumbing, digging a deep trench…only to run flex. 🤦🏻‍♂️

And miss the free workout? 😉 They looked young enough to actually like some hard labour, but I´m with you on this one, mainly because I´m handicaped but also agewise... 😜

@@klasandersson7522 bro what

@@forsaken696 can you not understand that? They were just agreeing with there comment.

Honestly, this concrete seems to crack reasonably easily. If that's true, an electric breaker might actually have been harder on the back than hand tools.

@@Ragnar8504 My trade were in metall before I got early retirement and I only have limited experience with concrete, but as far as tools and machinery goes I have used quite a lot of them. If you are a novice/beginner with the tool in hand, allmost all things are hard! ;o) So I´ll take your word for the concrete work done, the state of the concrete and your conclusion! :o)

I've always been curious about these liners. Looks like they used a type of vacuum to get all the air bubbles out.

Put the guy in the green shirt to roll and slide all over it. He was having a lot of fun.