OT Above gorund swimming pools

Not hard to install. Level chunk of ground. Put 3-4" of clean sand down. Set up frame and install liner. Connect up filter pump, Fill with water and check the PH and bacteria with a test kit.

Biggest problem with used is the liner. Holes are NOT good...

One problem is my lot is not perfectly level. How can I level it by hand?

How much are liner.

Hi Stryped, I bought a used pool many, many years back. Prior to buying I checked out the price of a new liner. Was quite expensive ($350±) at the retail level but was able to cajole a manufacturer to sell me one at a wholesale price. Claimed I wanted to try out their liner on a customer pool to see if I could recommend for other jobs. Considerable savings. More than 50%.

In my instance the pool price was $100. That's pretty cheap for all the metal, railings, ladders, pumping systems etc. etc.

Ivan Vegvary

Well you can dig the high spots down and toss the fill into the low spots. Not fun but can be done.

How high is the sky? Depends on the pools size, shape, liner material, color. Low end probably $150.00 high end $3000.00+

Could I use my single turing plow on the back of my 8n to level?????

Just thinking....

Have you contacted your home owners insurance company about this yet? Might not like th' increase in premiums if money's tight.

Snarl

Swimming pools far more deadly to the little ones than guns.

Wes

-- "Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller

I picked up two pumps for $0.50 each a couple weeks back just to get the 25 foot power cords. I haven't decided what to do with them yet, they both worked fine when I tested them. Gerry :-)} London, Canada

When swimming pools are outlawed, only outlaws will have swimming pools.

I can recomment an inflatable pool. They are easier to clean and remove for winter. Plus they are a lot cheaper. Make sure to get a good pump and a good filter and maintain proper chemistry.

The main safety consideration, as far as kids and pools are concerned, is to have little enough water in the pool so that the smallest kid can safely be in the pool, and high enough walls so that small kids cannot climb there by themselves. I would suppose that some kids are not able to follow rules, but in our house they know not to go there without supervision until they are fully able to safely play in the pool. It is better to err on the safe side.

When we moved her in1984, the house behind us had an above ground pool. The owner offered to install a gate so that Junior (10) could get together with his kids about the same age. I declined on the grounds that a 200 foot walk was good exercise, not to mention that said gate would access the pool area. The next owner had two "feral children" around four and five years, who were allowed to play completely unsupervised in the pool area once the inverted "V" ladder had been taken out of the pool. It took these two kids less than a week to figure out how to re-install the ladder. Fortunately the house was resold in short order and within a week the pool was gone and a garage/workshop started. Fortunately, the fencing requirements are somewhat more stringent now. A four foot high, horizontal board fence is no longer considered to be an adequate pool enclosure. Gerry :-)} London, Canada

stryped

You can to break up the dirt, rig up a blade to move it once you get it broke up.

As for the water depth and such, Fill the pool and teach the kids to swim in it. Keep in mind that you can easily drown in 1" of water! Also install a legal fence around it and a water monitor (sounds an alarm if someone gets in the pool without you knowing it)

I use a pool filter and pump for the first stage of the water filtration in this place. The water comes from a nearby creek. Into a 1000 gallon holding tank. Through the pool filter to remove sediment and larger crud. It then hits another holding tank with a dual UV unit in it. Then it goes through a two stage system of sediment filters and water softening. Then through two charcoal filters. Coming out the water makes bottled water look like crap!

They are totally easy, just about as simple as re-building the carb on a tiller, or replacing head gaskets. In other words, way too much for you.

Stop right there. Swimming pools are horrifically expensive luxuries. True cost per swim will be over $100. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't done it or can't count.

Fill with water, and then go Eeeeeew! because it'll be brown-black from the average city supply - lots of dissolved and suspended dirt. You need a good Diatomaceous Earth filter and a few days and several full "turns" of the water to scrub the grunge out of the water before people are going to want to get into it.

Cartridge filters aren't worth the powder it takes to blow them to... And sand filters aren't a lot better for filtering efficiency - their only advantage is they are cheap to build on a massive scale.

If the liner is more than three to five years old, be very wary. Vinyl deteriorates. You might be able to patch it now, but it'll get progressively worse.

Same thing with the thin sheetmetal style sidewalls - if there is a little rust now, it won't take long before there is lots.

You can use the plow to break up the sod and hard-pack soil on the high side, but once you get it all loose a Gannon box grader would be the hot ticket to get it all level.

Some Gannons have a set of retractable rip blades built in, and would do it all at once - with several passes.

And to set the level on the pad if you dont have a Surveyor's dumpy level, or a rotary laser level or other fancy means, use the old stand-by - a water level.

Garden hose with two adapters and two chunks of clear vinyl tubing, and two yardsticks to compare the ends against each other. KISS personified.

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Can I use a carpenters level on a 2x4? I have a water level tank I built for posts, but not sure how I would use it to level ground. It was a 10 gallon plastic tank with a nipple on the side or bottom. Cant remember it has been in my shed for awhile now. One of those things I built one weekend out of some scrap when I was bored.

By the way both the tiller and the truck are now running for those that care.