Hi guys,
I'm not a first-time pool owner, but I am a first-time metal frame pool owner and have some issues going on. For 1, I intend to keep this pool up year-round, so my issues need to be resolved. And 2, I'm OCD and want a great looking pool...
So anyway, here's my issue...
The pool is a Pro Series 26 x52. I tried to level the ground as best as I could for about a good week. We had about 5 legs that would of been about 4 inches off, all the legs had at least one block. I did not dig them in the ground. I'm a 1 person show pretty much of preparing this pool. I had very little help and am also disabled, so I got very ill putting this together from breaking ground to putting water in it. Anyway, I also have a VERY impatient husband. So he decided to help and told me I was crazy to have the low end up on 3, 1 inch blocks, so to avoid arguing I let him take them down. He also said I do not need to have the legs on blocks, again, to avoid arguments, he got his way. Then again, to avoid arguments I wasn't allowed to have the proper time to get the liner to my liking, he doesn't care if it has wrinkles and wrinkles to me are a pet peeve and the auto vac gets stuck on wrinkles, but not his job to clean the pool so he didn't understand the frustration, but there are no wrinkles. Anyway, I gave in way too many times to avoid conflict, I was grateful to get the help getting this done. Now I have to take it down and redo it and that's a waste of $400 of water and I am sick over it. I'm sick over the fact that 3/4 of the pool looks fantastic, then you turn around and are like "wth went wrong?" .
I tried to jack the pool up as others with this pool do but it's about 4 inches off and it was creaking, so I didn't chance it. So once the cooler whether stays more frequently I'm going to take it down and adjust it. This is what I need advise on....
Where the pool is the deepest the liner is way under the "wall area", so I am assuming I need to pull more to this leg, which means I will need to completely drain it.
IF I do drain this all the way down, will this liner go back into its perfect shape and again be wrinkle free as I know traditional liners normally don't?
On the backside of the area going from the ladder to the center leg, it looks like that leg is on a hill and leaning inward, I do not know if that is an illusion from the slope to the ladder, as on the inside of the pool it looks perfect. Should I worry about that area or just worry about raising the lower section and pulling some of the liner over to the lower area?
And as I told him, if we take the legs off the blocks they will sink, he assurd me they would not, I knew they would and several have, especially on the low side. Since most of this pool is great as far as being close to level, I don't want to mess it up by digging out these 1 inch pavers, are there any smaller pavers I can use for the legs?
Thanks,
Samantha
I'm not a first-time pool owner, but I am a first-time metal frame pool owner and have some issues going on. For 1, I intend to keep this pool up year-round, so my issues need to be resolved. And 2, I'm OCD and want a great looking pool...
So anyway, here's my issue...The pool is a Pro Series 26 x52. I tried to level the ground as best as I could for about a good week. We had about 5 legs that would of been about 4 inches off, all the legs had at least one block. I did not dig them in the ground. I'm a 1 person show pretty much of preparing this pool. I had very little help and am also disabled, so I got very ill putting this together from breaking ground to putting water in it. Anyway, I also have a VERY impatient husband. So he decided to help and told me I was crazy to have the low end up on 3, 1 inch blocks, so to avoid arguing I let him take them down. He also said I do not need to have the legs on blocks, again, to avoid arguments, he got his way. Then again, to avoid arguments I wasn't allowed to have the proper time to get the liner to my liking, he doesn't care if it has wrinkles and wrinkles to me are a pet peeve and the auto vac gets stuck on wrinkles, but not his job to clean the pool so he didn't understand the frustration, but there are no wrinkles
. Anyway, I gave in way too many times to avoid conflict, I was grateful to get the help getting this done. Now I have to take it down and redo it and that's a waste of $400 of water and I am sick over it. I'm sick over the fact that 3/4 of the pool looks fantastic, then you turn around and are like "wth went wrong?" .I tried to jack the pool up as others with this pool do but it's about 4 inches off and it was creaking, so I didn't chance it. So once the cooler whether stays more frequently I'm going to take it down and adjust it. This is what I need advise on....
Where the pool is the deepest the liner is way under the "wall area", so I am assuming I need to pull more to this leg, which means I will need to completely drain it.
IF I do drain this all the way down, will this liner go back into its perfect shape and again be wrinkle free as I know traditional liners normally don't?
On the backside of the area going from the ladder to the center leg, it looks like that leg is on a hill and leaning inward, I do not know if that is an illusion from the slope to the ladder, as on the inside of the pool it looks perfect. Should I worry about that area or just worry about raising the lower section and pulling some of the liner over to the lower area?
And as I told him, if we take the legs off the blocks they will sink, he assurd me they would not, I knew they would and several have, especially on the low side. Since most of this pool is great as far as being close to level, I don't want to mess it up by digging out these 1 inch pavers, are there any smaller pavers I can use for the legs?
Thanks,
Samantha
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