Turnkey and hassle-free solution for your pool

For many inground pool owners, you reach a point in life where demolishing and replacing your pool becomes the right choice for you. It’s a complex job, but there can be a variety of reasons to do it, such as the cost and amount of upkeep, children leaving home, property renovation or buying a house with a non-regulation pool.

What to know before removing your pool

One of your top considerations is to minimize the impact around your pool, from the moment workers and machinery arrive until they leave. This is why Patio Design offers you experts in inground pool excavation and demolition, who ensure a flawless job that leaves the least trace on your yard.

Demolishing an inground pool: How does it work?

We start everything with a free rapid assessment, on how to remove your pool and guarantee a high-quality backfill (the crucial step of levelling the hole left behind). Patio Design’s team, which operates widely across Quebec, from Montreal to the North and South Shores, Montérégie, the Laurentians and Lanaudière, delivers a job that respects your property, your neighborhood, and the environment.

Rigorous professionals

With Patio Design, you benefit from professional support when it comes to analyzing the work, costs and ground response, plus any municipal regulations you need to follow.

Remember: This is an operation that requires sophisticated skills and tools, and it should not be taken lightly. When your pool was first built, it is likely that access was less obstructed by your driveway, trees, landscaping, power lines and other constraints that are in place today. We solve your problem with a constant focus on quality service and performance.

Patio Design is known for our expertise in inground pool installation. This gives our team the specialized experience to understand and measure the impacts, requirements and best strategies that come into play for state-of-the-art breaking, dismantling and backfilling of all models of inground pools.

Want to remove your inground pool? Here are the benefits of Patio Design:

• Free quote
• Preliminary analysis: slope, impact, practical needs
• Fee proposal and work schedule
• Safe, careful, dependable service
• Qualified for pools, hot tubs, and challenges of any size
• Neat, careful work in line with standards and regulations
• Régie du bâtiment du Québec licence and insurance
• High-performance equipment: hydraulic excavators, jackhammers and more
• Team operating on North and South Shores, in Greater Montreal and widely across Quebec
• Possibility of adding Patio Design decks and paving after removal
• Patio Design’s turnkey client experience and signature customer service

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Quote for inground pool removal

As soon as the removal is complete, the choice is yours: You can quickly add new landscaping, or you can expand your patio, put up an outbuilding, build a garage, or simply enjoy your freer view and safer yard. Maybe a new vegetable garden, too!

Removing your inground pool: 11 steps for a no-hassle job

1. Site visit and analysis
2. Budget proposal
3. Work start
4. Pool emptying
5. Wiring, piping, and accessories removal
6. Excavation (walls and slabs)
7. Debris and rubble removal and transportation
8. Professional backfill
9. Compaction to prevent subsidence
10. Site repair
11. Landscaping, patio installation or start of your new projects

If you plan to remove your inground pool, eliminate the stress with our high-quality service and competitive rates, and start getting the most out of your brand-new yard!

Turnkey and hassle-free solution for your pool

Thinking of buying an inground pool to enjoy the summers and have a good time with family and friends? The resurgence in popularity in Quebec can be explained, among other things, by the ever-hotter summer temperatures, and longer periods to fully enjoy the pool.

However, when investing in a swimming pool, saving in the short term is rarely an informed choice. An inground swimming pool requires a high degree of care. Its installation is complex, especially since it involves a significant investment.

Patio Design offers a complete and complementary professional experience, resting on very solid foundations. You will benefit from this type of constant, secure and flawless service. If you're going elsewhere because of the price, be prepared to ask a series of questions and make sure you cover all of the realities and risks of this delicate purchase.

Inground pool: dig the questions!

What is your access to electricity? With running water? How will your swimming pool be heated? What will be the condition of the site upon arrival and departure of the teams? Have you planned everything?

Think of:

• Specialized excavation in case of surprise
• Quality or severity of the soil (rock, weak or friable, blasting or backfilling)
• Strains (removal or tearing)
• Modification of underground conduits
• Electricity and connection

Installation steps for an inground pool

Quote for your inground pool

Call one of our experts and request a home visit for a free quote.

Do you notice a price difference between two comparable estimates? The thickness of the concrete, the amount of rock or the quality of the materials are not always visible. Quality is your best investment. Beyond the comparable price, this crucial aspect guarantees you genuine quality, free from unpleasant surprises, through the years and decades.

Patio Design works with its own teams. Its inventory and constant concern to be a leader in Quebec is equal to that of providing you with peace of mind. This is visible from the start of the project, until the moment you leave the site, leaving everything clean, in order and ready for your first swim.

Visit of the expert appraiser to your home

The expert's visit to your residence will cover several issues: access to the land, topographical assessment, size, arrangements, delivery methods, construction, installation, and deadlines.

Your pool must comply with provincial and municipal rules, be completely safe and obtain the necessary permits.

With Patio Design, you will enjoy a one-stop-shop access to the pool of your dreams and to amenities that reflect your lifestyle, your aspirations, and the experience you are looking for.

Construction plans: in-ground pool

The production of detailed professional plans including a site plan, a construction plan and a landscaping plan will be carried out upstream of the work.

This step will help you accurately determine the actual cost of your inground pool project. It is also necessary for obtaining compulsory permits.

Permit for inground pool

You will need to apply for an in-ground swimming pool permit from your municipal planning department. If necessary, we can perform this step for you, at an additional cost.

Démolition

In some cases, we must demolish certain infrastructures: above-ground pool, shed, etc. This step requires tact and specific expertise to operate properly, while respecting standards, the soil, the neighborhood, and the steps to come.

Marking

Carried out on site, the marking serves as a beacon when welcoming the Patio Design excavation team. This precision work defines the location and shape of the pool in your yard. Underground services (wiring, piping, conduits) are indicated and marked on the ground, to facilitate and secure the excavation work.

Excavation of the inground pool

Digging a swimming pool is as important as it is delicate. The ground can present certain constraints requiring deploying the right means, at the right time, with the right tools. Patio Design has the equipment, machinery (shovels and trucks) and expertise to minimize the impact of its footprint on your entire lot.

Digging is a perilous exercise, and sometimes costly in the event of bad encounters, for example with electricity or water networks. At the location request stage, preceding the excavation, the Patio Design team works in collaboration with the Info-Excavation team. This non-profit organization is essential to process requests for the location of underground infrastructures.

Plumbing

Since the pool's filtration and heating pipes are buried in the ground, we ensure the proper installation of the fittings to deliver optimum performance.

This includes the installation of the discharge nozzle, the surface skimmer and some connections with the pump and filter. Also, the bottom drain, from where the pool water is sucked, to the filter or to empty it. A swimming pool's circulation system requires filtration and sanitation to keep the water both clean and crystal clear. Hence the importance of this delicate step.

Electricity and gas

An electric line will connect your house to your swimming pool. If you want to connect a fireplace or a BBQ and have a natural gas connection, the Patio Design team will also facilitate this step. During this phase, an inspection of the electricity and gas works will validate the quality of the work.

Compaction

Rock dust laying and soil compaction serve to stabilize and solidify the soil before the construction of the inground pool. The right materials and the right equipment will make all the difference.

Installation of screw piles

This complex operation requires high level expertise. Specialist in the installation of screw piles, the Patio Design team incorporates robustness and resistance to any test, including against the effects of winter. Your foundations will be stable, waterproof, and free from cracks.

Anchored deep in the ground, the screw piles for inground pools by Patio Design support the most ambitious projects.

Construction of an insulated formwork pool

The ideal solution to combine quality and ability to weather Quebec winters, the pool in insulated formwork from Patio Design comes with certain steps:

• Mount the walls of the formwork
• Pouring a concrete foundation, which is like building the foundation of a house.
• Make the formwork for the steps and the bottom of the pool. The depth and curve of the bottom, as well as the quantity and size of the steps will be your choice.
• Take steps before applying the liner to the steps, bottom, and walls of the pool. Here again, this work requires great precision.

Pool liner

Before the start of the work, you will have had the opportunity to speak with your Patio Design representative to determine and then order the desired canvas model. Its installation is delicate, to avoid gaps, air bubbles and pierced areas.

Layouts, landscaping, and finishing

By the time your pool is being dug and built, crews are already at work to begin construction, coating, paving, landscaping, fencing and preparation.

Everything is also planned to ensure a careful and efficient withdrawal of equipment and teams. Our goal? That you enjoy your swimming pool as quickly as possible, without any other worry than to deliver you a refreshing summer.

• Sustainable solutions, adapted to the climate here
• Range of materials for all styles and budgets
• Large collection of products available in warehouse

With Patio Design, enjoy peace of mind

You want to quickly enjoy your pool, we understand that.

With our turnkey solution, you get peace of mind. So rather than juggling an array of contacts and suppliers, flexible hours, last-minute cancellations, or unforeseen postponements, you'll be talking to one person. Your project manager at Patio Design, responsible for monitoring your file.

This synergy also saves time, because for several days, a real logistical ballet will be activated around your swimming pool under construction.

Residential swimming pools and security: did you know?

Since July 2021, the Quebec government has implemented new rules and standards for the development of residential swimming pools. To find out more about them and to find out more about the safety measures to put in place when installing a residential swimming pool in Quebec, click here

Obviously, the Patio Design team makes sure to deliver in-ground pools that comply with all these rules and measures. Because always, we are committed to reconciling safety, quality and refreshing summer.

How to plan your future patio or deck?

At Patio Design inc., planning your project is our priority!

Here are some points to consider before you start building your patio or your deck.

Determine the kind of patio or deck you want.

There are different styles of patios and terraces that can suit your home and your needs. Generally, the patio is attached to your house, slightly lower than the family room, living room or kitchen. For more privacy, you can also choose a terrace at ground level through which you access by stairs or a path if you decide to build it away from home.

Determine usage

From the start, you have to wonder what kind of activities you want to practice on your patio or terrace. For example, does your patio will be used to prepare meals and grilling? Is this a place where you get your family and friends? You use your patio for relaxing and reading? Do you add a spa or pool to your patio? Will you add screens or plants to get more privacy? It is important for us that you take the time to think about your future needs. To give you ideas and inspiration, check out our online portfolio.

Determine the dimensions

If your home and land are restricted, your patio or terrace should be constructed accordingly. We recommend you to use simple shapes. You can also divide the patio in different areas, according to the use you make of it. For example, an area for relaxation and another for the dining area, considering the dimensions of your garden furnitures.

Choose the foundation and the right materials

Depending on the selected patio or terrace style and the soil type of your property, our expert will be able to provide you with the best combinations. Several choices are available to you : the screw piles, concrete bases or sonotubes. The structure is generally made of treated wood before being placed on concrete bases or directly to the soil for stability. In some cases, the steel structure can be prioritized.

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Patio Design inc. designs, manufactures and installs high quality and sustainable patios and terraces for nearly 25 years. Whatever your project is, be assured it will be done according to your tastes and expectations.

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Screw piles installation, concrete base implant and laying Deck Block!

Depending on the patio or terrace style chosen, the soil type of your property, your budget and your priorities, our experts will be able to offer you the best option foundations as required. Several choices are available: screw pile, concrete bases (Sonotubes) and Block Deck. Here is a text that summarizes our views regarding the different types of terrace foundations.

Screw piles :

According to Patio Design Inc., the best way to ensure perfect leveling of your terrace for a long-term project is the use of screw piles as foundation of your patio. The screw piles act like large screws that will be based in the ground below the frost level (5 '). Thus, climate changes have no effect on leveling of your patio. Screwed with specialized machines, the ground ankers allow adjustment of height, depth and depending on their design (size of fins and pipe diameter) and the bearing capacity of the soil, they can withstand all types of works. These piles are made of galvanized steel, which protects against corrosion and ensures a very high strength to your project.

There are many advantages in using screw piles, here are some :

• The piling requires no excavation (clean ground)
• The equipment does not damage the ground
• Inexpensive, minimal equipment and fewer men requirement
• Very precise implantation
• If surprise found in soil (rock), very easy adjustment can be made
• The temperature is not a factor (Except frost)
• Reusable and ecological
• Very fast installation

This is why we think the use of screw piles is the best option for the project that will last over many years.

Concrete Base (Sonotube) :

The concrete bases (Sonotube) are very effective in ensuring a stable and solid foundation. According to the different diameters of Sonotubes, the reinforcements used, the concrete strength (MPA) and the implantation depth, the foundation construction method can suit all types of work. It is obvious that this method works very well and is very reliable. However, this method is less and less used for deck builder.

Here are steps to consider when using Sonotubes:

• Excavation necessary and more imposing equipment
• Scrap earth, concrete mixer needed
• In case of rain, the work will be delayed (concrete cure and ease of implementation)
• No possible reuse (can not be replaced)
• More expensive and longer implementation
• In case of surprise (rock), prices may vary

Once these factors into account, we recommend using Sonotubes for projects whose backyard or the front of the property has not yet been appointed. Thus, damage caused by this method are minimal, or in the case where only two Sonotubes are necessary. Thus, it is possible to dig the shovel without causing damage to the land, if there are more than two, we will use the necessary machinery.

Deck Block :

The Deck Block concrete bases are directly deposited on the ground. These bases are prone to move as a function of freezing and thawing. It is also possible that slightly sinks into the ground and the level of the deck has changed over the years. This method is frequently used when carrying deck, since it is very inexpensive. You can help the stability of the terrace if we add a lot of Deck Block and by the method used in the construction of the terrace. Thus, it will move uniformly, but the level will change inevitably. Following the terrace installation on Deck Block, it is possible to redo an upgrade of the terrace. He only just put the time needed for leveling the terrace to correct the changes brought by time.

For a project to your image!

Landscape Architect Service

Patio Design inc. takes a mandate to ensure that each project is unique, well designed and fits harmoniously with its environment. These features allow owners to enjoy an exceptional project, contributing to an exciting quality of life.

At a first meeting at home, our qualified professionals are able to target your needs as part of your project. This first meeting allows to develop a single design that respects your budget and municipal regulations.

Our team of experienced designers and landscape architects ensure that your landscaping project will be up to your expectations. We will create a project to your image, which will maximize the development of surfaces and facilitate your approach with the professionalism of our experts, architects and engineers. We will obtain the necessary permits for the realization and our certified installers will meet your highest expectations. You will have much to be proud of your home!

Security and peace of mind!

Patio Design inc. offers its customers the opportunity to get plans signed by engineers. Our engineers are involved in the design plans and structural quote, offer you diagnostic and inspection of your home, and ensure the viability of a project. Experts from Patio Design Inc. are able to ensure public safety while respecting the environment while providing safe and innovative construction solutions for residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional.

Our multidisciplinary team works closely with you and others involved in the project, which offers a quality service, turnkey, where all specialists working under the same roof for effective coordination. Our experts in structure involved the following:

The team of Patio Design Inc. offers engineering service key in hand. Rely on our experts! Our past achievements and our varied expertise will make a difference at the completion of your project.

Legal and regulatory

All municipalities require obtaining a building permit or certificate for any deck project to enforce the regulations and to check everything that relates to land development. Thus, a person who intends to build a deck in his municipality must ask the responsible for issuing licenses and certificates of obligations to meet. This person will therefore know what the regulations require. The distribution of permits is done via arrondissements. To this end, each has a service counter, where it is possible to get the desired license.

Since laws and regulations vary greatly from one municipality to another, before undertaking any type of work, it is best to check with a specialist from Patio Design inc. who will advise you on what you are entitled to according to your region. Moreover, when a permit is required to carry out works, Patio Design inc. offers to take steps with your municipality. This ensures to always respect the laws in force, the laws and the National Building Code. All our workers have their card of competencies, and our multidisciplinary team meets all the requirements. For an insured peace of mind, trust us in the realization of your project.

Durable and spectacular!

For the maintenance of patio built with treated white pine, it is preferable to use a water based stain because oil based stain seals and prevents white pine wood from breathing, which may cause the flaking of the surface. Further, a water based stain is more environmentally friendly. White pine wood needs to absorb moisture and let it evaporate in warmer weather. For optimal performance, because water stain evaporates, it is not necessary to sand or scrape wood. A good cleaning of the wood will be enough, then apply a water based stain every 3-4 years. A well maintained patio will last for longer life and a keep a new look.

Unlike the white pine wood, cedar wood requires oil-based stain. It is essential to clean and sand the cedar, and then apply a oil-based stain every 3 or 4 years.

You can count on us to do the work of staining and maintenance of your project.

It is obvious that professional work can make all the difference in the appearance of your project.

Here are our steps of realization of projects in staining:

• Clean-up, packaging and moving furniture
• Surface preparation (cleaning, scraping and sanding)
• Repair surfaces
• Application of paint or stain
• Clean-up and repositioning furniture

Erase an Restart!

Patio Design creates turnkey projects. This means that we take care of everything from design to completion. Thus, when we arrived on site, we take care of the demolition of your old patio and disposal of materials off-site. When we leave, the ground is free from debris and you are able to enjoy your new deck.

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Custom made and spectacular!

Patio Design specializes in the design and installation of custom patios. With over 25 years' experience and 6,000 projects under our belt, you can count on us to realize your future patio. Custom made and inside your budget, the projects done by Patio Design will meet your highest expectations.

Your plans in 3D

This unique optional service is for Patio Design's customers intending to use the company in the course of making a custom deck. Architect fees will be charged for each plan request.

Patio Design inc. has always distinguished itself by its expertise and professionalism in the competitive field of specialized construction. Therefore, trying to keep on the cutting edge of technology, Patio Design now offers the opportunity for all customers to have a 3D preview of their future outdoor terraces plans.

With this innovation, it is now easier than ever to be able to visualize the final rendering of the future outdoor terrace, and even before the beginning of work on site.

All types of projects are able to be represented; whether it is a wooden patio, a rooftop terrace, a patio with spa or pool, front of residence, a balcony or a business, we can give an overview of the finished results. Starting today, you will be able to view your project and make sure of a custom design that fits for you with the use of realistic plans in three dimensions.

Thanks to its innovative vision, Patio Design inc. maintains its status as a leader in the field of construction of terraces and continues to offer its customers high-quality projects with precision and peerless quality finish.

Warm and welcoming!

Patio Design inc. offers the ability to add lights on the surface of floors and risers. These lights have the effect of improving the appearance and safety of your deck while allowing to have an illuminated terrace during evenings. You can call us for the latest market trends in lighting: eco-efficient products such as lighting using LED as well as a custom control of brightness.

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