I'm thinking of closing my in-ground pool permanently.

Here is an article that might be helpful - http://www.wikihow.com/Close-in-an-Unwanted-In-Ground-Pool - good luck

This site tells you how to permanently close your in ground pool safely and inexpensively. Good luck! http://www.wikihow.com/Close-in-an-Unwanted-In-Ground-Pool

We hired a company to do this...expensive tho...they have to drill the bottom and sides pull plumbing lots of stuff then fill...make a basement with a redwood deck over it costs way less and you can have a root cellar for cheap!

When I decided years ago to close my pool, I made it into something I wanted! I bought 2X4 boards the width of my pool, next, I bought heavy denier visquen plastic (test material), I attached the visquen to the 2'4's with my industrial staple gun,. I placed those 2X4 about 4 ft apart the length of my pool, in the shallow end I had steps, if you do not have syeps you can build them or purchase them from a mobil home supply or some home builder stores have them. In my pool I set up shelves the height of my deep end, I built work stations with saw horses and doors I got from Habitat for Humanity Store, some I painted bright reflective colors like yellow, orange, white, then covered with clear plastic. On some of the 2X4's which now makes a ceiling to my "Underground Greenhouse",I bought long grow lights and attached to the 2X4's for extra light. The inground protects from wind, you do have to figure out your drainage for the FLATNESS,if you lay the boards straight across. What I did was I bought some 6X6's and raised one side of the 2X4's so they slanted and bought a length of house rain guttering for my 8'pool. I drained it to my lawn. This might seem like a lot of work but my hubby and I got it done in about 4 hours on a Sat..I set up the greenhouse shelving etc on Sunday working sporadically, it might have taken us MAYBE 6 hours each doing different aspects of the setup.

Hope this helps.

Dig out the concrete to bare earth cover it over & use it for a root cellar.

Build a garage, workshop or storage shed over the top, disguise or hide the entrance & use it as a hideaway, storm shelter or just to hide from the bill collectorrs.

We filled our in ground pool in by braking up the cement put old rubble in the bottom ie bricks any thing Then put up on gumtree free fill needed two days later man rang up it took six truck loads of dirt only which he said save him over $300 then hire a small digger from kerrnards cost us about $120 to fill in now grass growing over it

ni*Sgavinlock, you did a great barter! We once had a neighbor who spent all summer putting in a nice pool to make the house more marketable. The house eventually sold. Once the ink was dry, the new owners immediately filled in the pool, and planted grass. To each his own, I guess.