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Hello all. Last year I bought bulk chlorine (12%) in 20 litre refillable containers from the local pool shop for around $1/litre, but this year the price has almost doubled. I've switched to buying 10.8% Aquarius liquid Pool Chlorine, in 3.6-Litre jugs from my local Canadian tire for $5.19...

I had some anxiety about the liner for my project since I purchased it via Craigslist for $350. It had been purchased 5 years ago and never installed, I don't know the whole story. Liner was 20 mil, made by Loop-Loc, with a full pattern. I built the pool to fit the liner based on the...

I’ve read about a few people who have built composite stairs in their pool as an alternative to vinyl over concrete stairs. Has anyone tried building stairs from stone ontop of the vinyl liner? I’m thinking of using stacking garden wall block and then using the same coping stone for the steps...

Reading through the forums it doesn't look like the raised bond beam is as common with vinyl liner pools, so I'm looking for some insight from someone who has seen this done. I need an 18" raised bond beam at the deep end of my pool. My plan had been to pour a continuous concrete bond beam...

We are building a 16' x 36' DIY inground pool. The excavation was completed 3 weeks ago. We noticed right away that below 36" we had loose sand and the hopper walls (sloped to 8' deep end) didn't have much strength. It was even difficult to get the steel walls in place around the 2' overdig...

All, We've started digging today for a budget pool build. We purchased two sets of used steel walls and are going to reuse them for a 16' x 36' inground pool (purchased a liner that was ordered the wrong dimensions). My question is this: I have enough walls to do the complete 16' x 36' pool...