COVID chronicles day #78965. We live in Northern Alberta and given the outlook on our summer we have decided to purchase an Aqua Leader AG pool with natural gas heater. We had been pouring over pool websites for weeks when I came across a pool set up listed on Kijiji ( popular buy and sell site in Canada). Pool set was a great value and we decided to take the risk and make the 12 hour drive to pick it up!
Pool is in great shape with a new liner still in box. We will be setting it up ourselves as pool guys really aren’t a thing in the way up in Great White North. Our intent is to level the ground, we have a friend in landscaping. Tamp a 2 inch base of crushed lime stone, lay some type of base cloth ( Rhino) and then lay an insulator and foam cove. we are not using concrete sidewalk blocks because we live in a area of significant frost heaving ( 6’ deep piles below frost line are required for deck footings).
We have looked into XPS, wow I had no idea how pricey nearly $1000! And then came across this Insulfloor ( kind of a bubble wrap, thermofoil product. It has I high PSI compression rate than XPS. Anyways, has anyone else used that product? Is it ok to put crush base in a larger diameter than pool, and set pool wall bases on the crush? And do I still require sand to build up height?
I really appreciate all of your insight.
Pool is in great shape with a new liner still in box. We will be setting it up ourselves as pool guys really aren’t a thing in the way up in Great White North. Our intent is to level the ground, we have a friend in landscaping. Tamp a 2 inch base of crushed lime stone, lay some type of base cloth ( Rhino) and then lay an insulator and foam cove. we are not using concrete sidewalk blocks because we live in a area of significant frost heaving ( 6’ deep piles below frost line are required for deck footings).
We have looked into XPS, wow I had no idea how pricey nearly $1000! And then came across this Insulfloor ( kind of a bubble wrap, thermofoil product. It has I high PSI compression rate than XPS. Anyways, has anyone else used that product? Is it ok to put crush base in a larger diameter than pool, and set pool wall bases on the crush? And do I still require sand to build up height?
I really appreciate all of your insight.
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