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Thanks PAGirl and Casey !

A gorilla pad on top of the insulation: Gorilla pad and foam cove molding taped down: Installing the liner: We had to stand on pieces of insulation while waiting for the water to arrive because the liner was getting so hot in the sun ! We ended up using the hose to put a little water...

OK, I finally uploaded some more pictures. I left off with the walls up. Here are a couple shots of the 2" thick foam boards after being cut to fit: Then we pulled them out until we were ready to move on (so that any rain wouldn't collect and then erode between the gaps): Back in a...

Hi Mainedad, Haven't been on the board in a year ! So we had an electrician do the bonding for us (had him do a little other work at the same time). As a result, I can't remember what, exactly, he did. I did get a one page pdf from Radiant with bonding instructions ... if you want to contact...

I'll have to get the pictures online ... Friday, I got the foam cut and did a little more plumbing. Saturday, my friend came over early so we could finish up before the water was scheduled to arrive (between 4 & 6). We had to spread some more dead sand around to flatten the base a bit more...

Tomorrow I'm taking a vaca day & will spend the morning cutting the foam to fit and finishing up the plumbing. Saturday morning, my friend comes back - we'll tape down the foam, put the liner in and wait for the water to arrive :)

So the article says you'll either find a dead raccoon or raccoon poop in the pool (check your skimmer, I guess) and then there are steps you can take to clean it. It also says they do their thing in shallow areas, like steps. I can't really see a raccoon hanging off the edge of an AGP and...

Gotcha - I totally missed the part about it being an Intex pool ! So now I understand about the legs. I guess that means you can disregard just about everything I wrote :) Good luck with the pool !

I haven't seen how, exactly, a normal pool gets installed, having only looked up close at the two different panel pools I've owned. So I'm not following the part about cutting holes in the foam ... don't the pool walls extend down to the bottoms of the legs ? And if you're cutting holes, are...

Hi all, A few of you may remember my story of how our King George pool collapsed: http://www.troublefreepool.com/threads/72842-New-member-wondering-about-AGP-warranties So the new pool is moving along. I've come to the conclusion (after reading here and in some AGP installation instruction...

Bob, I'm replacing a 24' with a 24'. We're having the ground dug and going to have to tweak the edge of the deck (going from a "round" made from 16 straight panels to a truly round) so if we wanted to go bigger, we could. Would need to look at the heat pump and the water pump to check their...

I'm putting up a new AGP this spring and spoke with someone at the manufacturer - I asked him about using rigid foam instead of sand and he said it's a great idea. He recommended a gorilla pad on top of the foam, but his main reason was that with the weight of the water on the liner, you'll...

Sorry no pics yet ... basically, if you look at the pictures from my other thread - it looks like that, but with really long grass and dandelions ! But I have a landscaper/excavator lined up to prep the ground toward the end of the month when things dry up ... he's of the opinion that we'd be...

I used some Lowe's PVC ball valves and just as Beens said, within a couple years, the handles were breaking off, leaving me to open & close them with Channellocks. I've been switching over to Hayward stuff as needed. For the time or cost of installation, it's worth the money to buy good...

We bought aluminum fencing from greatfence.com. It's not cheap. We bought the "Style 9" fencing, 48" high in 6' panels for plus the posts, gate, lock, etc. Total with shipping was around $1600 to do 3 sides of the deck (the pool itself was high enough above ground level). That included 8...

I spoke with tech support at Radiant (my second call to them) and there's nothing in the warranty that precludes the use of a SWG. He said the only problems they've seen is when there has been small electrical current in the ground, which is something an electrician can test for. BTW, the...

We have a "Heat Siphon" heat pump from US Thermoamp. My impression is that gas heaters are great for getting the pool up to temp in a reasonably quick time (and are preferred by weekenders for that reason) while heat pumps are more economical when it comes to maintaining temperature (possibly...

OK ! Thanks again for the recommendations to use top rail :) With any luck, someone will be out today to look at the job of prepping the ground (digging up all the sand and making sure it was leveled down to the low point). Then I think I'll get my order for the pool in.

Thanks for the replies - I feel better about going that route ! Gerry, the foam in your pool looks great - any tricks to cutting them to fit the rounded edge so well ?

As I posted in another thread: http://www.troublefreepool.com/threads/72842-New-member-wondering-about-AGP-warranties our pool fell apart last week and as of right now, I'm planning on replacing it with a new Radiant 24' round Metric. A different manufacturer had online instructions that had...

A couple photos from better days !

So I had a bad feeling from the moment I spoke with the owner of The Pool Factory, as there was nothing remotely reassuring said about customer satisfaction; rather "we have to find out why it broke, whether it was a bad liner, in which case you have to contact ... " and so on. So I sent the...

Here are a couple of pictures: There are more here: http://kingofthebeasts.smugmug.com/Other/King-George-Pool/n-CbRm5/ - Dennis

You can say that again ! We just got some good "spring cleaning" done and were working on trying to get a couple contractors in for things unrelated to the pool and this was the last thing we needed. (Like it's not the last thing anyone needs !!!)

Hi all, Curious if anyone has anything positive to say about manufacturer warranties. We have a King George pool that was installed just over 5 years ago self destruct earlier this week. It was professionally installed (though the installer has gone out of business since). We paid extra for...