I bought an above ground pool in May. It's not very big, 4 ft deep sixteen across. I've had it up just over one month.
I'm already on my 3rd filter. I knew the one it comes with would break easily. It lasted a few days. Bought a SandPro. It lasted a couple weeks before it broke. Bought a huge Hayward. Its been running about a week. At first it was great but it's already starting to fail. Currently it's got air in the return. I can't get it out no matter how many times i try. I know where it came from. Despite my best efforts the manual vaccuum hose will not prime completely. I've spent hours fighting it. So i bought a robotic vaccuum thinking it would help. Thr hose to that leaks water at the connectors & it emptied half my pool in about an hour. That's another source of the air in the filter. So i unhooked them both. I'm not sure how to get either of them to work properly.
Then there's the chemicals / debris in the pool. I live in the woods so I'm guessing the debris is going to be a constant thing. I hate it. I've never seen a pool that was this dirty even when it is clean.
The test strips i have show the water to have zero chlorine all the time. I've got a floater with a tab & I've put a lot more shock than reccomended into this pool but i still get zero chlorine. I can tell by the smell it doesn't have chlorine. Yesterday i put a full bag for a 5000 gallon pool. Still got a zero reading.
The water is cloudy almost all the time. Usually shocking it clears it up for a day or two then i have to do it again. The test strips show everything else to be normal but that pool is gross. I have not gotten it clean one day in the 6 weeks I've had it, except the day the vaccuum hose was pouring water on the ground & i had pure hose water in there.
Which is another thing. There is always a giant mud puddle next to my pool. Always. Everything is as tight as i can get it. The pool is full. But it still has water coming from somewhere.
What would you do at this point? I bought it for my kids & they can't play in it. Summer's almost over & after spending over a thousand dollars I'm ready to throw it away.
I'm so disappointed.
I'm already on my 3rd filter. I knew the one it comes with would break easily. It lasted a few days. Bought a SandPro. It lasted a couple weeks before it broke. Bought a huge Hayward. Its been running about a week. At first it was great but it's already starting to fail. Currently it's got air in the return. I can't get it out no matter how many times i try. I know where it came from. Despite my best efforts the manual vaccuum hose will not prime completely. I've spent hours fighting it. So i bought a robotic vaccuum thinking it would help. Thr hose to that leaks water at the connectors & it emptied half my pool in about an hour. That's another source of the air in the filter. So i unhooked them both. I'm not sure how to get either of them to work properly.
Then there's the chemicals / debris in the pool. I live in the woods so I'm guessing the debris is going to be a constant thing. I hate it. I've never seen a pool that was this dirty even when it is clean.
The test strips i have show the water to have zero chlorine all the time. I've got a floater with a tab & I've put a lot more shock than reccomended into this pool but i still get zero chlorine. I can tell by the smell it doesn't have chlorine. Yesterday i put a full bag for a 5000 gallon pool. Still got a zero reading.
The water is cloudy almost all the time. Usually shocking it clears it up for a day or two then i have to do it again. The test strips show everything else to be normal but that pool is gross. I have not gotten it clean one day in the 6 weeks I've had it, except the day the vaccuum hose was pouring water on the ground & i had pure hose water in there.
Which is another thing. There is always a giant mud puddle next to my pool. Always. Everything is as tight as i can get it. The pool is full. But it still has water coming from somewhere.
What would you do at this point? I bought it for my kids & they can't play in it. Summer's almost over & after spending over a thousand dollars I'm ready to throw it away.
I'm so disappointed.
