Recent content by tmurphy

Yup! We did ours 2 years ago. 21’ round, 2ft in the ground.... and we have a walkout basement.... that was a LOT of wheelbarrows up the hill! :( .... and then back down the hill with all the sand for the bottom! Had a heater installed last spring and dug half the yard up again! Lol You will...

Your coping looks kinda high in the area where you pictured.. why cant you just to pavers/interlock behind your coping edge and let them jump from the edge of the pool? Alternatively, I don't see why digging for the rear of the platform and then placing the posts in deck blocks right behind the...

Can I just say, the information in this thread and the way it has been explained, has been amazing! I think I am beginning to understand it all ❤️ Thank you!

Economical is a matter of perspective. Do you want to have a pool sitting there unused because the heat pump can't keep up, or it takes to long to get it up to optimal temps and you didn't think about having people over for a swim tonight until lunch time today? If The cost difference between...

My test kit looks like that and only callas for 4 drops.... maybe you are using too much?

I'm thinking that since I witnessed them dropping their poop sacks in the pool WHILE my daughter and her friend were swimming in it..... the cat isn't going to be much of a deterrent either. :(

We did the same as jason176, ours has been through one winter (in Canada). Rented an excavator, dug ourselves, had a landscaper friend help remove extra dirt, and family and a couple friends helped with the install. I backfilled with clear stone, wrapped with landscape fabric ( basically a...

Browsing landscaping photos for above ground pools, I noticed there are a lot that have a wood overlay or surround around the outside of the pool walls. I'm wondering if there are any sort of issues to worry about whe doing this? Our pool is partially buried and I'm thinking this might be a...

LOVE these! Thank you! And they would be easy enough to build to our needs too!

This is why I have two poles! One for the leaf net and one for the wall brush! Can always get one with the other if need be ��.

@ashtonfitzgerald, We have two 64 watt panels hooked up to a 1000w inverter and charge controller. They charge 4 deep cycle batteries that we keep in the shed. When we had a smaller pool with a smaller pump, the pool pump ran off them as well. When we upgraded to the steel wall above ground...

We have the same square footage of panels (2 - 2 x 10) and we pump through ours separately from the filter system with a 1/4hp submersible pump. It pumps up the 8-10ft on our shed no problem. We only use a separate pump because we also have solar panels for power on the shed as well and we can...

Looking at the underside of the deck, just as a precaution. I would take some of the sidewall from the failed pool and wrap those support posts with it. I'd be worried that with any movement in the pool, the sides rubbing up against that wood could cause small leaks at some point. Wrapping the...

We use a 1/4hp submersible pump to circulate through our solar panels. This is our third year.... up u till this year we ran the pump on solar panels on the top of our shed, so it was completely hydro free. The solar system has to come down now as hubby doesn't want to be bothered with it...

Looks amazing! We did the same thing last year for our 21' round pool! Lots of rocks and dirt like concrete.... we just rented a mini excavator though.... �� It's so much more work than you ever imagine!