Building a fiberglass pool in Sandy

Without published numbers, we design Sandy pools to the stricter rules common nearby until the city tells us otherwise: 5 feet off the property lines, nothing in a utility easement without written permission, and a fenced yard with self-closing gates. If Sandy allows less, you gain room. If it asks for more, we've already planned for it.

The fence is where we don't cut corners. The code minimum is 48 inches, measured on the outside, with a gate that closes and latches itself and opens away from the pool. We set the latch release 54 inches above the bottom of the gate, not the ground. That one change satisfies both the code and the federal safety guideline. Every MP pool also gets an automatic safety cover, whatever the fence rule turns out to be.

The southern part of Sandy is in the Jordan Basin sewer district. Elsewhere in Sandy we confirm the district before we route the backwash line.

Some rules don't change at the city line. Since 1 July 2026, Utah builds residential pools to the 2024 pool code, and Utah's version of that code sends pool waste water to the sanitary sewer and takes the storm drain off the table.

We have nothing Sandy-specific on soils from the state survey. No data isn't the same as good ground, so we watch for groundwater during the dig and leave a standpipe next to the pool, so you can look before you ever drain it.