I have a large sand filter and pump on the backside with a chlorinator. I just installed a pool RX capsule in the pump. Any ideas welcome!
Hi!
I recently installed an above ground pool and everything is set up, but I’m left with some extra liner folded over the top edge.
For those of you who have similar pools, what did you do with the excess liner?
Did you trim it, tuck it in, or just leave it as it is?
I’m a bit worried about cutting it in case I mess it up or need that extra later.
Thank you
We just had our first pool installed this week. We are in NE PA, so it's a bit early to use it...but ..any advice for complete noobs?
It's a 21' round.
This is our second year with our pool.
Last year, i built up our low end instead of digging down. Well once the ground settled, we had a “deep” & “shallow” end”. Worried it was going to bust at any point.
I took it down over the winter so I could level it correctly this year.
I’ve watched plenty of YouTube videos, but i just wanted to ask if anyone had any tips/ suggestions/ anything, to make it easier with the supplies I do have.
•I have a tiller/ cultivator
• square tamper
• hard rake
• put a metal rod through a wood board (wood board is not long enough to reach across the entire pool diameter - 16 feet)
•approx. 1 foot levels & tiny levels
I attached pictures of my materials, current progress, and “before” pictures / pictures from last year to show the slope.
TIA!! 😊
I'm looking for an automatic pool cleaner preferably cordless. I have a budget of about $500. Any recommendations?
I got a Varminpool heater and am trying to sort out the connections. It comes with the 2” fittings. 1.5” pipe will slide inside this bushing, but I want to create a connection that I can use my standard 1.5” pool hoses. I know the NPT threaded fittings I can easily buy at Home Depot are the correct thread. What are my options?
First year it was maybe 1/4 inch in 2019 but this year as I'm going to open it it's closer to 1-1/4 inch. Anything I can do or am I screwed? The rest are completely perfect.
I got lucky with the first two years of owning a pool both years I was able to maintain Clearwater with just slow release chlorine tablets, one floating in a float. two in the float if it was really hot out. The pool water did not burn my eyes and it did not smell like chlorine. My question is do you think I am damaging any pool equipment or any potential health problems by just using chlorine? I am not balancing any other chemicals. I have no idea how to do it. The water feels great. No one has ever complained.
Hi all. Northeasterner here who had some bad weather luck and old pool went bye-bye. We are replacing with the same size pool (24’ above) and I believe we are switching over to a salt water pool. I have 0 experience with salt water/systems, what should I know in advance? Thanks
I am digging into the above ground pool world. I’m just seeking advice on what to get. I bought a cheap one from Rural king a bc phone years back and it didn’t make it 2 years before it had a hole in it and the cartridge filter was terrible. I’d like to stay around 1k-1500ish with a good filter if this is at all possible. I keep reading on intex and bestway but not sure the durability or if they tear easily.
Thanks for any and all help.
Hi all so purchased a 5kw sunspring and had it on all day yesterday.
Yesterday morning put it on, flow coming in was 13.2c, ran in all day and checked before I went to sleep was 16.4c.
Now the outdoor temp yesterday was pretty cold I’d say around 12c.
Overnight it dropped and when I woke up the outdoor temp was 3c with the heater dropping slightly to 15.8c.
So from 10pm to 7am the temp hadn’t increased? Is this normal when it’s so cold outside? , I assume it was just battling the dropping temps.
This is a little long, but please read because I’d love some advise on how to proceed.
I have a 24ft by 52” Intex pool. We put it up last year by leveling the ground, packing the dirt, topped it with a gorilla mat and set it up. We used it all summer and closed it properly for the winter. Things got warm really early so I opened the pool late march (not intending to use it any time soon, but figured at least it would be ready when the weather stayed consistently warm). Wellllll….. something happened and the liner sprung a pretty bad leak right on a seam (I’m thinking a rock got flipped up when my husband was mowing or something like that, but we aren’t really sure)
Intex sent us a new liner, so we’ve completely emptied and taken down the pool. I’ve chosen to look at this in the most positive way possible and use it as an opportunity to fix the few leveling issues that we had (it was a little high in one spot and too low in another spot), so I’ve gotten sand to use to soften the base and fix the small issues.
My question is this:
We cut the old liner so we can use it as a second layer under the pool and we still have the gorilla liner.
The thought is that we leave the gorilla liner, put the sand on top then put the cut liner floor on top of the sand then the pool on top of that.
The other option is pulling up the gorilla liner, put the sand down, compact it then put the pool bottom with the gorilla liner on top and the pool over that.
Thoughts?
Still got work to do but last year I was so concerned with how it looked after winter that I climbed in with a bucket and emptied the whole pool and scrubbed it clean, such a waste of time and effort
The ladder was only used last summer. It was stored in the garage over winter. When we got in from the garage and brought it outback to put in the pool, we noticed a far amount of rust that looks like it came out from inside the legs.
Is it safe to put in the pool? What would you do?
How many of you still get in your pools after the new wears off?
We set up our 32 x 16 beast of a pool yesterday. Now starting to fill. We are about a quarter of the way in on the fill and noticed the sides are starting to buckle. CANNOT get the side rails to push in. We have them sitting on pavers. Will the sides push out as the water fills up?
Are these wrinkles fine or should i empty it and start over? Theres 2in of water in there
I recently had a doughboy installed and there were cutouts for 2 jets/skimmers, one on each end. I’d prefer to only have 1 as the other would be under my deck, so there was a dummy plate that was taped to the inside of the wall behind the liner. There’s water leaking from those two spots, but I don’t understand how. The installer is coming back to try to fix it this week, but how is the water getting behind the liner to leak from those cutouts?
Has anyone tried adding a 1hp pump to increase flow in their Bestway pool. I found one local for $50. My first thought is it will blow the sand filter or fittings apart but maybe I’m wrong.