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Lowes and Home Depot sell their playground stuff in kits and components, so I'm sure you can get them there.

I use nylon rope tied to tarp tie-downs (alligator clips). You can buy kits especially made for that purpose though.

2" pvc without anything in it won't work. Take a 10' section and put a bunch of weight (even like 20lb in a back pack) and see how much it bows. Take that to 18' and it'll be like a noodle. That's why I went emt originally. My latest design is 20' of iron (black pipe) connected together at the...

Exactly what I was looking for, thanks! I'll save the $8 and spend it on cheap pool toys. ;->

I have a worn out 8mil cover now, and it's pretty effective at keeping the heat in over night (we can see 40's even in the summer.) I need to replace it, and have read that because of longevity, buy the cheapest one you can, which would be 5mil. The 8mil is about $8 more for my 15x30, and the...

It's been a while since I've posted an update. My 3 summer saga continues. Doing all of the work on my own, so it's taking a long time. My solar panels have been an adventure in themselves, thanks to some wind issues, I've reinstalled them like 5 times, but also thanks to epoxy, they are all...

Thanks Jason, that's what I was hoping to learn about. Easy enough to make that happen. You know, one more follow up question. Given the pool has a liner, and there is NO metal attachment to the actual pool water (no ladders, plastic skimmer, etc.) How do you actually bond the water itself...

I was doing some research into bonding pools. I have an above ground pool that is currently installed below grade, with a 4-5' overdig, so not backfilled. The pool is effectively sitting on the ground as if it were at grade. I didn't want the pool equipment close to the pool, so I put it about...

I am building an outdoor kitchen to finish up my huge outdoor renovation. The kitchen will have a 4' retaining wall as the back in an L shape. I'll have one side that's 7' and one that's 8' (plus the corner.) I'm trying to save money and I'm going to use my pedestal mounted bbq grill (big...

Interestingly enough, as I was walking out of my office (home) I noticed I had this little basket in here. It's just a small basket with tons of holes in it, but i thought it might be worth a try, and so far...it's working very well. I don't have a TON of leaves on the cover, but I suspect it...

I'm not sure if this is the place for this, but I don't have one of those pool cover pump covers, so I thought I'd see if anyone had any good ideas. I have a sump pump that's a bottom intake (I use this for my hot tub, and it moves a lot of water. I don't want to suck up the pool cover or all...

You're probably right, not enough air to worry about it. I was able to keep the temp near 90, even with overnight lows 30 degrees below that, so it's definitely working well, just being anal about efficiency. Now, I need to figure out how to divert some of the water to my hot tub. ;-> Thanks for...

Yep, those are the release valves. I ended up with clear portions of the system next to the left release valve, before the valve. What can happen is if I let it run for a while, then open that valve, I can get some additional air that comes through at that point, which would indicate to me that...

I was thinking it should, but maybe I have something else wrong. There is about an 8" grade from the input to the output, so I would think that the air would purge itself. However, it seems if I let it run for an hour or so on it's own, and then open the valves, there is still air in the system...

I do have IP cameras that I can check on the overall status, but being in an area where everyone is like "why do you have a pool in Montana," it's a little hard to find people that know what they're looking at, or how to address it. It's unlikely I'd have a complete failure, so if the SWG...

I used a configuration almost identical to one I found here on this site to set up my 8 2x20' solar water heater system. Since setting it up correctly, it's been awesome, and the water temperature is now actually higher than the average ambient air temp, right around 90 degrees, which is great...

My in-ground AGP (sunken, not buried) has been doing fantastic all summer. I'm running an intex SWG and a pretty large array of solar water heaters. We just had the 4th here and had a ton of people in it, and it did great. It's a 15x30 oval. We're going away for about 2 weeks, and I'm...

88-90 degrees here in balmy Montana. ;-> My 8 solar water heater panels are working overtime, and quite well, which makes me happy. The over night lows have been in the low 60's, day time highs in the high 80's to 90, so I feel like that's pretty good. My pool is 15x30 sunken (not buried) AGP...

That's kind of what I was thinking. My only concern is that my pool is an AGP with a deck built on top of it. I have an access hole to get to the skimmer, etc, but to pull the 3 way up for easy access, I'll have to add some bends. Do you think just using 45's so that I can go up, put in the...

I put in a Wild Ride slide late last year, and finally plumbed it for this season. It has a valve that sticks up from the pool deck to turn on/off and adjust the flow. I basically T-'d off the main 1 1/2" output line from the pump with a 1" line up to the slide valve (the slide itself has a 1"...

I got started on the process last night. The wrinkle issue is more complicated since I have an expandable liner for my deep end. I ended up (so far) cutting around the bottom seam, thinking I that the bottom would make a good base. but, as it dried out, the deep end shrank and pulled away, so...

FWIW, we had another warranty issue with our head rests, and they took care of it without issue, easy peasy...

I put in a new AGP pool last year, and thanks to a little adventure of dropping a skid steer into my pool, the liner got damaged. I patched it and it's all good from a hold water standpoint, but I don't like the little patches that happened. I also didn't really like the pattern. So, I have a...

I went down this road last summer, and there are a bunch of options, but none of them are good. I ended up just sucking it up and buying a commercial one for our pool, and love it.

Just thought I'd pass this along, since a lot of times, folks don't take the time to say the good things about companies. We bought a Costco spa last summer, and love it. It's made by Strong Industries, was a great value, well made, and it's been working well. We had a couple of issues with it...

I've been buying the wally world level floats, usually the ones that are under $10, but they don't last long, and seem like even water makes them leak. I've been looking at the closed cell foam ones instead, but man, they're like $80 each. Do they sell any floats that aren't so expensive, but...

FWIW for diy work, I have been using the ebay ones, and have had really good luck with them, it's a decent way to save some serious money. For roof mounting, make sure you do all the math for pump power and the drain systems, etc.

I do have a backup generator, but if you had the water at 80 degrees even, it would take quite some time for it to reach a temp to freeze the pipes. We've had power out for maybe 6 hours at the most. If it went beyond that, I'd be looking to put the glycol in and fire up the genset on it to get...

Thanks BC, that helps. We've seen a week at -42 at the lowest, and we usually have one good cold week, but Winter is the best time to use the tub, surrounded by snow and all that...plus it gives me an excuse to keep the snow off my new deck. I'll play it by ear I guess, and I can always turn the...