It has already started to bend and is touching the top of my Summer Waves Polygroup pool. Im on a huge budget crunch now that the insurance has deemed that we had to have a fence. The fence was completed last weekend and the kids have no problem with the cheap ladder. Im thinking of reusing pallets to make a set of pool steps for outside of it. and then using a regular 6' step ladder cut down and adapted to the top step of wood steps and then saving up for some type of normal ladder next year. My budget is under 200, like closer to 100. I have a 6' step ladder that i can cannibalize to use inside pool with something to protect the pool bottom. Am I way out in left field or could I do that? maybe make a set of wood steps for inside the pool? I plan on taking down pool in October. Any comments appreciated....