Above Ground Pool Removal

An above ground pool goes from used to abandoned in about two seasons. The pump gives out, the water turns, the liner takes a tear that will not hold a patch, and the wall starts to bow where the ground settled under one side. What is left is a large round object nobody swims in, sitting on the flattest part of the yard.

AMI Junk Hauling takes it apart and hauls it off — liner, wall, uprights, top rails, the pump and filter, and the sand base underneath if you want the ground back to grade. The steel goes to scrap rather than to a pile behind your garage.

Send photos of the pool, the ground around it, and the route to the street. Or call and describe it: (888) 371-8120. The estimate is free and comes back in writing.

Why people take a pool out

• A torn liner, where a replacement costs more than the pool is worth.
• A wall that has rusted through at the base or bowed where the ground shifted.
• Kids who outgrew it, and a summer of chemicals and pump time for nobody.
• A house sale where the buyer wants the yard clear.
• Insurance or an HOA raising the fence and safety question every year.
• A yard plan that needs the flattest part of the property back.

What is under it is the real work

Taking the pool apart is the quick half. The wall unrolls, the uprights unbolt, the liner comes out, and a fifteen-foot round is off the lawn faster than most people expect. What takes the time is everything that was built up under and around it over the years.

Most above ground pools sit on several inches of leveling sand, sometimes on patio blocks, sometimes inside a retaining ring of timbers on a sloped yard. Many have a deck built up to the rail on one side. All of that has to come out or be spread and graded, and the sand alone can be several tons on a larger pool — dense material that fills a truck by weight long before it fills it by volume. Decide upfront whether you want the sand hauled away or spread across the yard, because those are different jobs.

How it works

1. Send photos. The whole pool with the ground around it, any deck or surround, the equipment pad, and the way to the street.
2. Get a number in writing. The figure covers diameter, wall type, any deck, and what happens to the sand base. Same-day quote in most cases.
3. Drain it. Thousands of gallons have to go somewhere that can take them. Where the discharge ends up is worth settling a few days ahead.
4. Pick a window. Clear the surround, and point out sprinkler heads, buried low-voltage lighting, and the electrical run to the pump.
5. It comes down and leaves. Liner, wall, frame, ladder, pump, and filter go on the truck. Steel goes to scrap, and the base is graded or hauled off depending on what you chose.

What we take down

Above ground pools and everything installed around them:

• Steel-wall round and oval pools, twelve foot through thirty-three
• Resin and aluminum-frame pools that have gone brittle in the sun
• Soft-sided and inflatable pools with collapsed rings
• Semi-inground pools set into a slope with a retaining wall
• Torn liners, and liners that have been in the ground so long they tore on removal
• Decks, stairs, and platforms built up to the pool rail
• Ladders, safety fencing, and gates
• Pumps, sand filters, heaters, and the pad they sit on
• The sand base and any patio blocks underneath

Two things we do not do. In-ground pools are a different trade entirely — that is excavation with a permit and an engineered backfill, not a haul-away, and AMI Junk Hauling will point you to that trade rather than take the job. And leftover pool chemicals stay behind: shock, tablets, and acid go to a household hazardous waste site, not onto our truck.

What moves the number

Four things settle an above ground pool teardown.

Diameter and wall type. A twelve-foot resin pool and a thirty-foot steel-wall oval are different volumes of material and different crew sizes. Steel is heavier to move but has scrap value working the other way; resin has none.

What is built around it. A pool standing free on grass is the simple case. One with a deck built to the rail, a retaining wall on the uphill side, or a paver surround, means demolition before the pool itself is touched, and that debris often outweighs the pool.

The sand base. Spreading a few inches of sand across the yard and grading it is one job. Hauling several tons of it away is another, and sand is dense enough to hit truck weight limits well before the box looks full.

Access. A pool in a backyard with a wide gate and a driveway on the other side is straightforward. One behind a house reached only by a narrow side yard, where a rolled steel wall and tons of sand have to be carried past the air conditioner, takes hand work and time.

What you get on paper, and what to sort first

The written estimate comes before the crew is scheduled. If the sand base turns out to be twice as deep as expected, or a buried timber ring appears under the surround, you hear the revised number before the crew keeps digging.

Two things belong on your side. The water is the big one: a full pool holds thousands of gallons, and dumping chlorinated water into a storm drain or across a property line is prohibited in a lot of places. Dechlorinated water released slowly across ground that can absorb it, or run to a sanitary cleanout, both work — check what your municipality asks for, because it varies. The other is power: the pump runs on a circuit that has to be shut off and disconnected, and pool lighting is often on a buried low-voltage run nobody remembers installing.

How to pick who takes it down

Pools are where the corner-cutting is easiest to hide, because most of what gets left behind is under something. The pool goes, the yard looks open, and what stays is a ring of sand three inches proud of grade, a buried timber border, and the pump still wired to a live circuit on the wall.

Ask three questions and get them in writing. Is the sand base hauled away, spread, or left as it is. Does the price include the deck or surround. And is the electrical disconnect part of the job. Each of those is a separate call-out if it was not in the original number.

Pool removal near me: where crews run

Coverage is statewide rather than metro-only, which matters where sand and demolition debris travel to different facilities and neither is close. Pick a state for how the work runs there — access, ground conditions, what local facilities take — and the towns covered in it.

Northeast

Connecticut · Maine · Massachusetts · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New York · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · Vermont

Midwest

Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Michigan · Minnesota · Missouri · Nebraska · North Dakota · Ohio · South Dakota · Wisconsin

South Atlantic

Delaware · District of Columbia · Florida · Georgia · Maryland · North Carolina · South Carolina · Virginia · West Virginia

South Central

Alabama · Arkansas · Kentucky · Louisiana · Mississippi · Oklahoma · Tennessee · Texas

West

Arizona · California · Colorado · Idaho · Montana · Nevada · New Mexico · Oregon · Utah · Washington · Wyoming

Other things we haul

• Junk Removal
• Boat Disposal
• RV Removal
• Shed Demolition
• Hot Tub Removal
• Deck Demolition

Get a number on your pool

Send photos of the pool, the surround, and the way out to the street, or call and describe it: (888) 371-8120. You get an upfront figure in writing, with the sand and any deck spelled out rather than left open. The form on this page works too.