Pools engineered
for Cranbourne ground.

Entertaining Elegance is the Cranbourne project behind this page, and the ground under it is sand. The shell could not be carried by that ground, so twenty-one screw piles were driven before any concrete went in, and the pool now sits on the piles rather than on ground that moves. The excavation made the same point a second time. At two metres deep the walls kept caving, and about twenty square metres of below-ground boxing was needed to hold the dig open and form the pool.

That is one block, not a rule for the suburb. What sits under any other Cranbourne address is a question for a soil test rather than a postcode, and we do not assume the answer from the street. Every concrete project starts with heights measured on site, a pre-engineering investigation, a soil test commissioned and a fencing consultant engaged at the same time. Those reports go to the engineer with the drawings and the pool size, and the structural and hydraulic design comes back for that exact pool. Access for machinery, ground water, levels and any easement or service crossing the block are settled in the same pass. It is also worth checking whether an address falls inside Casey's adopted Cranbourne Development Plan, which covers land bounded by Glasscocks Road, Ballarto Road, Narre Warren-Cranbourne Road and Evans Road, because a planning permit there can only be granted where the proposal is generally in accordance with that plan.

Both build paths are open in Cranbourne. Custom concrete is the one that bends to a difficult block, because the shape, the depths, the benches and the structure underneath are all drawn for that site, which is exactly what a sand base or a collapsing excavation asks for. A fibreglass pool arrives as one finished shell, so the early questions move to how it reaches the backyard and what the ground and the levels allow. Which path suits your address comes out of the site assessment, not a preference we bring with us.