Recent content by parkca01

Ooo would love to hear notes on this too. There’s also a facebook group for AG pools and this comes up a lot there also.

After seeing rust as a common way of pool collapse, how do you monitor for it or prevent it? General answers are good, but if anyone has specific experience: I have a steel side pool. The installer told me to put topsoil up against the bottom rail to prevent washout, so I’ve done that, but I’m...

My anxiety got to me and we've called for help. Ugh. So expensive. Thanks for the help.

So if we were to take it down, how do we even manage the sand that we have? Like do we have to start from scratch to get it all entirely re-leveled etc to remove the sand. I don’t really know where to start on this one.

Does anyone have any firsthand AG collapse incidents? What were the circumstances? What did you learn? thanks, just curious.

We had our ground professionally leveled within 1" then did a self-install of the above ground 21' round pool, steel side, 11,000 gallons. We used masonry sand with a tamper during install. Pavers with a 2" height. All was level, but upon fill weighted down to about 1.75" difference at lowest vs...

As a new pool owner, I've been lurking TFP for a few weeks. I've never been a pool owner before but finally installed one after housing prices skyrocketed and it looks like we're staying put. For now, I'm trolling the prior threads to learn, and will hopefully be able to be a meaningful...