I have an above ground pool. Keeping the wedding cake type steps from floating is always tough. The directions say to put sand bags on the inside of the steps but it isn’t that easy to do. It makes moving them to clean and scrub the walls difficult. I was thinking about taking a piece of flat river rock and placing it on the bottom step. It definitely has the weight and is nice and smooth, I am not worried about somebody getting hurt with it. Is there any downside to placing in the water chemistry wise?
Natural stone in the pool.
- Thread starter OscarB
- Start date
- May 3, 2014
- 58,634
- Pool Size
- 6000
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
We have and love those same steps! We have not put anything on/in them to keep the down. What we did do was screw the "deck leg" down good. We did have to put some 2x4s under it. We screwed them together and to the deck. We also made sure to put the screw through the leg in to the handrail post.
Really? Your’s stays put? The bottom of mine floats but the whole unit stays in place because it is screwed down to the deck. It’s really annoying because the mat I have under it floats away because of the lack of weight.
They move a tiny bit at times line when a good game of watermelon ball is going on. We did not put a mat down as these steps have the heavy duty rubber along the bottom edge.
Kim
Kim
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