Blacklisted said:
Looks great. Can you tell me in more detail what you did to the ground under the pool. Did you brick or cement under the pool or just make a barrier wall etc. I am in SD area also and am going to be digging and leveling our 15' metal frame pool this winter. I am thinking of building a deck/bar around the pool also. How sturdy are the pier blocks once you get the deck built. I might go the same route as well with the blocks.
Blacklisted well I made some mistakes (never trust one person's advice, especially online get numerous inputs) as I have to go back and jack up seven posts but the basics was I rented a Backho and dug down 5 inches then leveled that. Those boards are 2x10x14"s and they all have rebar hammered in every 6" to keep the boards from pushing out. In the middle is 3 yards of DG. DG was saturated and compacted (gas-powered compactor). Under each foot under that blue tarp, is a 10x10 treated 3'4" plywood square.
My mistakes: The feet sit at the end of the plywood sqaures and with the rain the DG has compressed and sunk down unleveling the pool, making the far end of the plywood push up thru the tarp. In that area, UNDER THE PLYWOOD SQUARES I should have sunk in bricks or pavers and then covered with 1-2" DG. Two I should have ensured the pool's foot was in the middle of the plywood square. Stupidly I was running out of room with the Intex tarp , tarp wasn't wide enough, screw the tarp, better yet don't even use a tarp except directly under the pool vinyl. This spring I plan to jack up those corners and lay brick underneath and redo my mistakes. Good thing is I won't have to drain and completely redo the pool. Bad thing is the earth underneath is clay and I will be bustung my hump digging a hole wide enough to get a race jack under the 7 sunk in feet.
Thank you to all who posted comments.