Recent content by derekvli

Got the electrical wire through the existing 20' run last night and also connected another 30' of conduit and ran wire. Still have about 10' to go to reach house foundation. We will work to backfill the area the conduit was running and let the pump area dry out a bit more. It still very...

Great, hope this helps you. Here is link to the pool we bought at Watsons. It made in Canada. Elegance Above Ground Pool - 27' x 54"

Here is picture of pump and filter next to pool. Pump is on the other side of filter. Water is out now but would say water came up to about half way up pump at worst level. My other end of conduit is somewhere under the water and mud to the right of system. I'm thinking of filling this space...

lol, thanks for keeping this thread alive. =) Funny thing is I was just about to log in and ask questions about the pump location. For those following my build, you will learn a lot on what NOT to do. As for progress and more challenges... I am only able to work this on weekends now but it...

We are working on tilling the yard and using that to backfill the pool. We are probably 75% done. I just now read about bonding and no idea what this was until last night. Our pool wall is metal and rest is plastic, so guessing we just need to bond the pump, water and then 4 locations around...

Thanks for the advice Chasarms. We will think about the deck before we back fill... which means tonight because we renting the tiller again to break up the ground for back fill dirt for our friday afternoon\Sat morning project. We will also till it so it grades more correctly away from house...

XPS and Liner was installed and we started filling yesterday evening. We used vacuum to work overnight to help remove wrinkles while filling. This morning it looks to be good, no wrinkles and about 18" of water in there as estimate. We getting some rain right now from the tropical storm to...

of course if anyone sees something in pictures that we should fix, let me know. I know the stones are off a bit and we will fix those tomorrow. I also see a slight bow in on bottom right part of pool that happened while tightening wall to be able to close it. Pool guy said this will fix and...

We negotiated the price of the install this morning with the work we did. We basically hired him to guide and extra hands since we so new at this. We got the pool walls up, he showed us how our stones were slightly off which still need fixing which he will help us tomorrow with. I have to...

We basically dug down and leveled the space more and tried to get the tracks on current ground so there was no gap. Little gaps we filled with dirt. I feel for your pain with the rain! Best of luck that you can get some dry weather! We slightly worried we will get the pool up just in time...

picture of round 2(ish, not going to admit how many times we did this) of footings and track installed. No sand or tamping been done yet. We would like to think this is better as footings are in ground all way around opposed to some being 4-5" high on one side....Feeling good we decided to pull...