AGP on concrete slab with 6"

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SlingingSteel

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Hi all,

new guy here about to install a 15'x48" intex round pool on a concrete patio with a 6" slope over an 18' span and looking for advice on leveling. ive done my searching of the forums prior to this post and found nothing aside from leveling the whole slab or building a sand box, but i have seen no sandboxes built on a concrete slab as of yet. also, i did find some scary suggestions of jacking up the low side of the pool once filled and placing pavers under the feet of the frame and im kinda on the fence about that.

just looking for some suggestions that wouldnt require me being a contractor, gotta get my kids outta the house!

Thanks in advance
 
Ok, too much of a slope to not utilize some form of leveling, for sure. I am also not a fan of jacking the legs up on the low side.

So, as you’ve deduced, your options are limited. Does the pool have to go on the slab, or is there room somewhere else? If it has to be the slab, then you need to level it.

Sandbox can be built on slab. I’m envisioning landscape timbers bolted into slab, and filled with crushed rock, compacted. A gorilla bad or something similar on top.
 
Thanks for the response Kelly. unfortunately the slab is the only space enough for this pool. i kinda assumed there were no other options aside from a sandbox. any suggestions on how to find the exact inches of slope? so far all i really did was used a 10' stud with my level on top, then raised the low end of the board til level, i then measured the gap from the slab to the bottom edge of the stud.

i may have used a stud that was crowned for previous measurement as this morning i measured using a different board and came up with 1.5"-2" gap
 
I've seen lots of people use pieces of wood under the legs instead of stone pavers. With wood perhaps you could sand or plane the pieces of wood to get the thickness you need to level out the pad? I'd do this with 3 or 4 inches of water in the pool. I had my pavers perfectly placed, plumb, and level, then had to adjust quite a few of them somehow once the pool had a bit of water in it.
 
I don’t like this method, because while your legs may be level, the pool bottom is not, and the weight and force of the water won’t be the same on all of the legs.

Not my decision though. If you do decide to re-level, a water level is a good tool. Here’s a good video on how to make and use!
 
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