I’ve got another lesson learned today. As I was preparing for the pool and preparing the placement of the leg supports I had two conflicting drawings.
I had this one from intex:
Which shows that the outer length and width, which would be how far the legs stick out is 34’x17’10” for the 32x16 pool.
However, I also had this drawing from another thread here:
This drawing shows that the legs extend 7” from... something. Unfortunately it wasn’t totally clear what the 7” measurement was taken from. It looks like it’s probably from the ground cloth, but I didn’t use the ground cloth that came with the pool, so I didn’t know what it’s dimensions were.
I assumed that intex knew what they were talking about and when I placed my leg supports I made sure the centers of the supports were 34’ apart on the long side and 17’10” apart on the short side. That way the legs should end up in the center of their 15” pads.
Unfortunately I realized this morning that intex did not know what they were talking about. The legs wound up about 2 or3” from the inside edge of each pad, rather than in the center.
It would seem like the drawing by the forum member is much more accurate and that 7” measurement is taken from the ground cloth or something with dimensions of 32’x16’. Despite what the intex drawing shows, the actual outside measurements of the pool are 33’2”x17’2”.
So, I just spent an hour this morning moving all of my pads in about 4 or 5 inches, pushing them right up against my foam, which is 32’x16’. This puts the legs pretty close to the center of the pads and I feel much better about where they are.
Luckily there was only 5 or 6 inches of water in the pool and I was still (barely) able to move the legs off of the pads so I could reposition them. Had there been much more water in the pool I would have been unable to move them.