Above Ground Pool Removal in Chicopee, MA

This is really two jobs joined together. Getting the water out, which takes days and is on you. Then taking the structure apart and hauling it, which takes an afternoon and is what you are hiring.

Nobody quotes a pool with water still in it. A round 24 foot above ground pool holds roughly 13,000 gallons, and water weighs about eight and a third pounds a gallon, so that is over fifty tons sitting in your yard. It has to be gone before anyone starts.

Once it is empty the work is straightforward. Liner out, top rails off, wall unrolled, uprights down, and the whole thing loaded. Most run $400 to $1,000. Steel walled pools are the common type here and the wall is scrap metal, which helps.

Where the water goes matters

Do not simply open a valve and walk away. Chlorinated water kills grass, runs into a neighbor's yard, and in this state discharging pool water into a storm drain is a problem. Stop chlorinating for a week or so, let the level drop, and drain slowly across your own lawn. If you are on a slope in Chicopee Falls or Sandy Hill, plan the direction before you start.

What is underneath is part of the job

Pools sit on sand, on a poured pad, on pavers, or on foam over leveled ground. Sand is the most common here and there is usually more of it than people expect, several inches across the whole footprint. It has weight and it prices separately.

Then there is the dead ground. Grass under a pool has had no light for years and the footprint will be bare when the wall comes off. That is a landscaping job rather than a hauling one, but knowing it is coming means you are not surprised on the day.

A deck built around the pool changes the price and should be mentioned when booking. Same for a filter, a pump, a heater and a ladder. The pump and the heater are metal and go for scrap. The liner does not, and it is one of the few things here that simply goes to disposal.

Check the permit and the fill

An above ground pool usually needs no demolition permit, but the electrical feed to the pump does need to be handled properly and that means an electrician, not a hauler. Also worth asking the building department whether the pool was permitted in the first place, since a permit on record sometimes wants closing out. Neither is a big deal, and both are much easier before the crew arrives than after.