Updated October 2026
Jimboomba is the service town for the southern end of the Mount Lindesay Highway corridor, and the country around it is acreage: horse properties, shed slabs, long driveways and blocks measured in hectares. The pools were built for properties where summer is long and the nearest alternative is a drive, so they tend to be large, and many are old enough that the interior is on its second life or overdue for it. Judging by build era rather than any dataset, the acreage pools here are among the oldest still in regular use.
We connect you with experienced, insured local pool renovators who travel the highway corridor, and we would rather set out plainly what distance does to a job than quote as though Jimboomba were a suburb.
Distance is a cost, so treat it as one
A renovation involves many separate trips, and out here every one is a long round trip. Materials arrive by the truckload rather than being collected when something runs short. The approach that works is to plan the complete job before it starts, order in one delivery, and keep a crew on site through consecutive stages instead of returning week after week, provided the planning is done properly at the start. The corollary is that changing your mind mid-job is expensive, so settle the finish, the tile and the coping before anyone arrives. See resurfacing and tiling and coping.
Water, draining and the refill
Plenty of acreage blocks out this way are not connected to reticulated services, which changes the mechanics of a drain-down. Check your own address with Logan Water rather than assuming. Where there is no connection, draining is managed on the property in line with the local water authority's requirements rather than to any street stormwater. Refilling generally means carted water, because emptying household tanks leaves the property short in a dry spell, and a large acreage pool can take well over 60,000 litres. Book the carter when the renovation is booked, not once the shell is empty, and have them price on the measured volume.
What the big old pools usually need
The findings repeat. A porous interior that stains and keeps growing black spot from the same pits. Hard scale along the waterline. Coping lifted or shifted on one side. A pump replaced once with everything else original, often in a shed well away from the house. And a barrier never reassessed since it was built, which on a treed rural block almost always has vegetation or objects inside the non-climbable zone. The advantage of block size is that machinery can usually reach the pool, which removes the hand-barrow labour that drives up suburban quotes on the same work. See equipment upgrades.
Before a sale
Deal with the barrier first and early. A pool safety certificate is issued only by a pool safety inspector licensed by the QBCC, never by this site and never by the contractor repairing the fence, and it runs two years on a non-shared pool. On a sale the seller either provides a current certificate before settlement or gives the buyer a notice of no pool safety certificate. Rural inspections take scheduling, so start well before the agent lists. See fencing and compliance.
Frequently asked questions
Is it worth renovating a large old acreage pool, or filling it in?
Renovation is usually far cheaper than demolition and backfill, and on an acreage property a working pool is close to expected. Filling in makes sense mainly when the pool is unwanted.
What does a full job cost out here?
Guide pricing only. A full renovation with interior, tiles, coping and equipment commonly runs $20,000 to $50,000 and above on a large pool, with travel and carted water on top. The cost guide breaks down each scope.
The pool has been shut down for years. Where do we start?
With a look at it, drained if necessary. A long-dormant pool usually needs the interior rather than a chemical rescue, and you should get that said straight rather than paying for a recovery that holds one season. See green pool recovery.
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