Moving Used AGP

[NWMNMom]

We moved out of the house where are our pool was installed in 2006 and over to another house about an eighth of a mile away on the same family property 5 years ago and my husband's been promising to bring the pool over every year since the move "once he got some other things off his plate." Well I finally said the trigger phrase, "if we don't start on this job I'm going to pay somebody to do it." Lol We started today. Holy guacamole!!! What a big job taking the pool down. The pool has been sitting for 5 years plus and it had some water sitting in the bottom of the liner with a leaf net over the top. The walls didn't buckle but the pool did fill up with leaves and some other debris including cattails that took root on top of the leaf net sitting in the water.Ugg! What a mess. The leaf net weighed about 300 lb and we had to lay a wall down and pull it out with a four wheeler. It's going to be a really huge job going forward and I hope we can get it up before winter gets here. Stay tuned!!

 

[Mdragger88]

If there are any small rust spots repair them now.
Sand them down a little, use a rust converter & then coat them well with some rustoleum paint.
If there are any large ones or creases it’s likely a no go & u are better off getting a whole new pool. (A new wall costs about the same as a new pool)
16 yrs of life is pretty good for an above ground pool.
You don’t want to risk people or property to a collapse.
If u are unsure of what is & isn’t salvageable/safe post some pics.

 

[NWMNMom]

If there are any small rust spots repair them now.
Sand them down a little, use a rust converter & then coat them well with some rustoleum paint.
If there are any large ones or creases it’s likely a no go & u are better off getting a whole new pool. (A new wall costs about the same as a new pool)
16 yrs of life is pretty good for an above ground pool.
You don’t want to risk people or property to a collapse.
If u are unsure of what is & isn’t salvageable/safe post some pics.

We are amazed at what great condition the pool walls and almost everything is in. We had replaced the liner in 2010 and put new cove, Gorilla Pad and wall foam liner in as well. The wall is what looks like new condition without a single rust spot or crease, not even at ground level. The bottom rails were originally ordered aluminum and are also pristine. Bottom plates and all uprights are great shape The top stabilizer rails are steel and some will be salvageable with a bit of surface rust while others are goners. The coping is brittle so new is ordered. Some top rails are done with rust or damage so we'll check on replacement The top plates have varying degrees of surface rust and will be sanded and Rust-Oleum treated. Heck even all of that rotten debris on too, after cleaning the leaf net came out in new condition. That was a total surprise. We haven't seen the pressure plate or straps yet. It's a big job with a 22'x16' Trex deck we had to dissemble as well. I'm hoping we can get it done before it starts to get cold again.

 

[Mdragger88]

That’s amazing
Take lots of pics of the process!
U ordered a new liner too right?

 

[NWMNMom]

That’s amazing
Take lots of pics of the process!
U ordered a new liner too right?

Yes. A new liner and Gorilla Pad were already delivered about a week ago. It was to clarify my "start it or I'll hire someone" point. No turning back after you've already dropped $1000.

 

[NWMNMom]

Before leaf net was removed

 

[NWMNMom]

OMG this pool deconstruction and move job is Soooooo much more work than installing a pool. If we weren't already eyeball deep into the process, I'd just say the heck with it and buy a brand new one. I'm ummm "particular" about not taking shortcuts but it's shortcuts they want. Blood pressure warning for all involved.

 

[NWMNMom]

Well everything including pavers is moved out of that yard, over to the new yard and we've done inventory. Some of the top stabilizer rim rails and top plates can't be saved, and we're missing one top 7" wide rail and 3 are rusted beyond salvage and several decorative caps are missing or too far gone. I dropped a pile of $ ordering replacement parts today so hopefully we can get the remaining parts restored and ready to go. DH needs to move on site prep and I'm doing my part on restoration with sanding (wire brush) and priming and Rust-Oleum treating. I don't know if we'll get water in before first frost.

 

[Mdragger88]

I have faith!
Hopefully your parts come in asap!

 

[Newdude]

OMG this pool deconstruction and move job is Soooooo much more work than installing a pool.

Mine flat out laughed at me the whole day and I was not trying to save it. I can't even imagine how long it would have taken to break all the rusted bolts apart, just to need 17 new pieces of XYZ anyway.

 

[NWMNMom]

Took the day off to spend 7 hours wire brush sanding stabilizer rim rails.

 

[Mdragger88]

Oh my,
Just keep repeating “it’ll be worth it, it’ll be worth it…”

 

[NWMNMom]

Well stabilizer rim rails done with sanding and painting, decorative caps pressure washed and painted. The other pictures show the prior Gorilla Pad that's in pretty much perfect shape after 12 years under the prior pool spot (going underneath the new gorilla pad) and 2 of the three trailer loads of pool parts and pieces. I also have a 12x8' pool shed brimming with parts, pieces, solar panels and chemicals to bring and set up. The ordered replacement parts will be delivered Tuesday and Wednesday. Site prep is getting to the final steps.

 

[NWMNMom]

The pool is up, liner is in and now we ran into water fill snags. We filled about 11 in when we found that we cannot use the well at our current home as it will run dry and cannot tolerate extended runs. We looked into trying to get water delivered but there is literally nobody that does that service. They don't even have trucks that fill cisterns around here anymore since rural water was installed in the county. A farmer that rents are bins offered to let us use his spray trucks tanks that are around 3,000 gallons but then he had an accident with his truck so that fell through. Someone else we know with a tanker offered to do it for $1,200 not including the fuel and water. No thank you. So we hooked up nearly 800ft of 1 1/4 inch irrigation tubing to our pumphouse well in the old house yard. We had a flowing well over there and often used it to fill or refill pools over 35 years that we lived there. The pressure tank there still works like a champ and it might take us a while to get it full but it's flowing at a pretty good rate right now so we're going to give it a shot. I loaded it up with algaecide and Metal Myte so as soon as it gets 2 ft deep I'll throw the robot in there with the super small micron flannel bag and some cotton balls to filter out as much of anything it can. We're going to fill it up too about 6 in under the skimmer and return spots and then close her down for the winter. Will cut in the skimmer and return in the spring.

 

[kimkats]

WOW! What a lot of work but it will be so worth it when you go to open it up in the Spring!

 

[Mdragger88]

What’s y’alls temp around there? We got to 94 degrees today.
I can’t believe your gonna close it immediately after all that hard work! Hopefully u will at least get an inaugural swim in!
Perhaps rigging up a bucket or two with polyfill & a submersible pump would do the trick for the possible metals before closing her up.

If you’ve got iron in your fill water, use Polyfill to remove it

EDIT: Found out this method only works if your iron is oxidized already, meaning it’s got a dull or bright green tint to the water, or a nasty brown tint. If you know you have iron in your fill water, but it isn’t oxidized yet, bring your pool to shock level and it’ll turn the telltale green...

www.troublefreepool.com

 

[Decoy205]

Yeah what a huge endeavor! Glad you figured out a way to fill without breaking the bank. Looks like you were able to get it all back together nicely.

 

[NWMNMom]

What’s y’alls temp around there? We got to 94 degrees today.
I can’t believe your gonna close it immediately after all that hard work! Hopefully u will at least get an inaugural swim in!
Perhaps rigging up a bucket or two with polyfill & a submersible pump would do the trick for the possible metals before closing her up.

If you’ve got iron in your fill water, use Polyfill to remove it

EDIT: Found out this method only works if your iron is oxidized already, meaning it’s got a dull or bright green tint to the water, or a nasty brown tint. If you know you have iron in your fill water, but it isn’t oxidized yet, bring your pool to shock level and it’ll turn the telltale green...

www.troublefreepool.com

I might just do the bucket trick to help out I haven't put any chlorine in yet the ground water from that flowing well is 54 degrees. We got a system in this afternoon that dropped temps so the high was 71. We are expecting a number of days towards the end of the week in lower 80s with upper 50s and lower 60s at night. We normally close between Labor Day and September 15 so not hopeful for super warm weather, but hey if we break out some homemade wine or mead, maybe we'll get looped enough to jump in. I came home from work today to find that my husband had installed the solar cover reel at the end of the pool and had brought my pool shed over from the oold farm yard. No sun today so no additional water today but tomorrow's supposed to be very sunny so we'll be filling what we can.

 

[kimkats]

He has really gone all in once he got started!

 

[NWMNMom]

He has really gone all in once he got started!

He's a keeper