Hi everyone!
Just bought a new pool and spent the past few days setting it up. We have a rocky area so we carved out a base 14x 23 and filled it with gravel and then about 3 inches of sand and levelled. It is a little unlevel - one end is a couple of inches deeper than the other.
We set it up and started filling (we didn’t realize it was unlevel at the time). Half way through we saw it was bowing in and realized our supports under the legs were too high. Dug them out and put them flush to the ground - when using a level , the bubble is in the middle but as it goes further down the length of the pool it moves further to one side (but not far outside of Center. Maybe a few millimeters).
Once we had the supports flush to our the ground, we filled it the rest of the way (overnight) the bow is mostly gone, but I just noticed a small buckle!
My questions:
1) is this fixable?
1) a) if so, how do we fix this? More water? Ratchet straps? Haul it down?
2) can we keep this up the season and take it down in the fall ?
Photos attached.
Thank you so much (our hope was to have this ready for tomorrow for a birthday event. But now… I’m concerned)
Just bought a new pool and spent the past few days setting it up. We have a rocky area so we carved out a base 14x 23 and filled it with gravel and then about 3 inches of sand and levelled. It is a little unlevel - one end is a couple of inches deeper than the other.
We set it up and started filling (we didn’t realize it was unlevel at the time). Half way through we saw it was bowing in and realized our supports under the legs were too high. Dug them out and put them flush to the ground - when using a level , the bubble is in the middle but as it goes further down the length of the pool it moves further to one side (but not far outside of Center. Maybe a few millimeters).
Once we had the supports flush to our the ground, we filled it the rest of the way (overnight) the bow is mostly gone, but I just noticed a small buckle!
My questions:
1) is this fixable?
1) a) if so, how do we fix this? More water? Ratchet straps? Haul it down?
2) can we keep this up the season and take it down in the fall ?
Photos attached.
Thank you so much (our hope was to have this ready for tomorrow for a birthday event. But now… I’m concerned)
