Recent content by ksguy

I don't remember, it was years ago. I decided it was a load of garbage within a year, but that's no longer the point. I'm doing maintenance on it each year like you two. Again, not the point of the post. This is great advice for some people, but we show signs of algae by mid-April, and we...

The algae issue is typically only at pool opening. The rest of the year is it just garbage and sediment from wind and general pool activity. Skimmer basket socks don't seem to help too much other than cotton from cottonwood trees which was wreaking havoc on me for awhile. I test chlorine levels...

We have a 16x32 AGP sanitized with bleach. We currently run a Pentair 342001 1.5HP VS pump and a Hayward EC50AC DE filter. I went to DE years ago after we just could not get the crystal clear water I wanted using sand. Based on everything I'd read, the DE should be able to last several years...

Jumping jack on the bare soil, plate compactor on the gravel. The soil has to be rammed into place, whereas the gravel has to have the vibration factor as well to get the particles aligned and locked together.

The first couple pictures aren't great, I was taking them for another purpose but they do show part of the progress. First pic includes the outside ring which is soil cement underneath, and at the time of the picture had an inch or two of AB3 base compacted onto it. The grayish looking area...

I built my 16x32 oval on screenings (stone dust). I did not use gorilla pad, I used 3/4" foam board insulation (foamular 250), but I did set it right on top of the compacted gravel. I duct taped the seams and cut to fit inside the track. Came out very nicely. If your gravel base is compacted...

Funny you say that, I actually don't have a background in earthworks. I spent all last winter and spring reading everything I could so I wouldn't screw up my build. I knew I wanted to raise it and that I didn't want it to fail. Even after all the reading I was nervous going into it. Overall I'm...

Here's my experience building on a built-up site. My pool was originally built in 2000. They cut into a slope to build it, but ended up actually slightly below grade all the way around, resulting in the trough holding water and rusting the track. When I rebuilt the pool this year, I wanted it...

It almost looks like the site was leveled with sand. A sand base for the track and uprights is a major no-no since sand washes out VERY easily. When they're out to fix it, make sure it's built on soil and not sand.

I think you have a couple of options. Option one is to use a short length of flex PVC at the skimmer and return jet and join that to rigid PVC a foot or two from the connection - that would give an area of pipe that has flex. Alternatively you could use Fernco couplings. They are not pressure...

I thought about boring a hole, but the trouble is that per the pool instructions, the base is dished out to about 1" lower in the center than at the tracks, so the water is accumulating in the middle and would not run out the edge. I have considered trying to get a small diameter tube between...

Hi. I finished rebuilding my 16x32x48 oval a little over a month ago. I built the pool on a built-up, compacted gravel screening base. I covered the base with rigid foam insulation, and gorilla taped all of the seams. The foam coving is gorilla taped to the wall and also the foam base. Our liner...

The side that stretched is the east side so it got sun all afternoon. I've drained it almost empty again tonight. Tomorrow I'll dry it out with the shop vac and do my best to center it, then start refilling at around 6 a.m. on Thursday right as the morning sun starts hitting that west side. Do...

Hi, looking for the voice of experience on a liner installation. I rebuilt an above ground 16x32 oval. It's an older pool and I had to use instructions from a newer model, which the pool store said was the same structurally. Turns out it wasn't, and my pool ended up 16.5 feet wide instead of 16...

Hi, my wife and I are planning to (hopefully) replace our 18 year old Doughboy with another pool this year. The old pool is 16x32 and, long story short, it has to be retired. I've done a lot of looking online and found MGK pools, MGK Pools - Provider of Premium Above-Ground Pools Accessories...