Thursday, 8 April 2021

What to backfill with?

We are having a new pool Installed in a hole I had dug last year.....it will be 20ish inches deep. The pool bottom is down to the clay layer. There is roughly 18” of sandy loam on top of the clay in my yard.
I was going to backfill with gravel and a custom drain to prevent any ponding around the pool below ground. I then began reading in earnest and it seems that gravel is not a proper backfill for an AGP installed below grade. I’m not even sure now if I even need to make a French drain...

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