Pic of our dig

[adillenal]

This is what happens when you are naive and don't know that the land you live on is mostly rock.

[joelq]

Wow! Whereabouts in Texas are you? The Hill Country?

[adillenal]

The edge. We are an hour due East of Austin. We built our pool last summer and the rock sure made for slow going.

[tagprod]

The edge. We are an hour due East of Austin. We built our pool last summer and the rock sure made for slow going.

Giddings, I suppose? I've heard of pools that cost 35K here in Houston running Austin folks 60K due to the excavation problems.

[adillenal]

Exactly. Good guess. The local pool builder would not even come to our house to look at the backyard and give us a bid. That should have been a clue but there is an inground gunite pool about 4 miles down the road from us so we never thought about ROCK. Closer to town and in town isn't as much of a problem. We just happen to be in an area that has a shallow soil layer. NOW I found out about that. The aerobic septic system swe have should have been another clue. No field lines and the treated water is attached to a sprinkler system.

[ChuckD]

In a previous lifetime I was a steel worker for a small rebar fabricator shop and delivered steel to several sites where the homeowners were actually blasting to excavate a foundation (well, they weren't, a hired professional was).

Seems like it's be a more efficient way to do this, but I've no idea the cost comparison....


C.