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    Preventing rust / monitoring for rust

    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...
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    AG Collapsing examples

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

    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...
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    total newbie

    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...