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Thank you. Yes, we bonded the rebar that was driven into the base of the frames before concrete collar was poured all the way around the pool. We'll go ahead and bond the rebar in the bond beam under the coping.

Galvanized steel walls with aluminum frame

@JamesW , Thank you! The outlet is 7 feet away from the pool wall so that's perfect. We are going to install a paver deck and I was just looking into bonding requirements for it. We'll be pouring a bond beam to go under bullnose paver coping and, as far as I understand, it may be best to...

@JamesW , thank you. Our inspector, strangely, said he could care less about inspecting bonding. He wanted only the final inspection with everything finished and they are more concerned about safety gates & latches. I guess they don’t care about us getting electrocuted. :LOL: So pretty much all...

@cowboycasey & @JamesW , thank you so much for fast replies. We have a lot of torrential downpours causing flash flooding and very high ground water table. Mostly in spring and fall but we get some heavy rains in summer too. We also have clay so when it rains, water will happily find its...

Based on advice from this forum, we installed a French drain around our vinyl IG pool and a sump pump pit. The pit is about 3 feet away from edge of the pool and has a Zoeller sump pump (made of cast iron). I understand that it needs to be bonded but our electrician said that there is not a...

We are installing a semi-inground pool dug all the way in ground on clay soil. Based on may threads on TFP, we were considering using geotextile with a 1-2" layer of crushed run on top of clay underneath the whole pool to level and stabilize it. Today, I read a thread mentioning that they put...

@ajw22 , thank you for the reply. I was considering adding valves on each waterfall line to control flow. Do 2 way diverter valves do a good job of throttling flow in small increments like ball valves do? I thought they have more "shut on, shut off" type function. I've been reading about ball...

After much research on TFP, we designed our pool plumbing diagram. We would really appreciate if any TFP experts review it and give us any feedback. Dig starts on Monday. Here are some details: Pool - 21’x38’ (21K gallons) semi-inground vinyl pool buried all the way in-ground (stadium steps...

@cowboycasey , thank you for the reply. That makes sense.

Yea, we did it under our last above ground pool and it was great. My main question is whether there is anything that would/should prevent us from putting it under an inground pool floor. I just don't see many people discuss it for inground pools and I don't know if I'm missing something.

We will be DIY installing a semi-inground 21'x38' vinyl liner pool. Pool has 52" walls and we are burying it all the way in the ground with water depth around 44" high across the pool. We installed a new AGP 2 years ago and based on a lot of reading on TFP, we went with 1" pink foam sheets for...

Our new pool came with wide mouth and the old one had a regular skimmer. We have a wrap around wood deck and the extra 3" for the wide mouth extension would require cutting into a load bearing floor joist. :( Is there any way to convert that hole to use the regular skimmer? Or are there any...

Update: I just talked to 3 different large online pool part sellers and got 3 different answers regarding the true height of a 52" Swimline liner: One said that a 52" liner has actual dimension of 52" Second said that it allows for 2" of sand so it's actually 50" (this corresponds to the...

I am replacing a 15-20 year old 24' above ground pool. There is a wrap around wood deck so I have to use the same space to install the new pool. I have gone through countless installation videos and posts and they say different things. Old pool: had 48" walls, set up on a 5" thick sand base...