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Hayseed

Hayseed

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I was thinking about steps into the pool. My wife is older and on top of that has fibromyalgia and sarcoidosis. Steps are hard for her ladders are out of the question. Has anyone here ever tried to preform steps from concrete. Making one step in a form, then making another, little smaller to place on top of that, and so on. Paint steps with thick rubberized paint. If this is stupid, are their any other considerations of this type?
I once remember fixing a pool in ground with a mixture of Portland sand and perlite. Thought this mixture would be good for pouring in to forms. Thanks
 
You will need to be able to get them out or at least move them so you can clean under/around them. Here are the steps I have for my husband with many ortho problems. He LOVES these steps! They are easy to put together and I can get them out of the pool on my own if needed. With them having the holes in the steps there is good water flow! I do pour my chlorine right over them every 3rd day or so to make sure they are staying clean!

Finest Wedding Cake Step - NE100BL - INYOPools.com

I worry about the concrete ones rubbing the liner :(

Kim:kim:
 
Thanks for the link, steps are nice, but I am wanting not so steep risers. That's why I figure I would have to make some thing up. I guess the bottom will be easy to protect, on the sides I could coat with rubber. But I guess motion back and forth would still be bad for rubbing even rubber coating would eventually put a hole in liner. I will keep searching the web for something
 
Your problem is weight. Solid concrete steps like that will weight tons, literally. Unless you have a crane handy they will be impossible to move.

I would fabricate stairs from aluminum or lumber. If you use lumber weight the stairs down with removable concrete weights. Like milk jugs full of concrete or PVC pipe capped and full of concrete.

Don't use pressure treated lumber it will reach a TON of copper into your water. Regular pine will last a few years in the pool.
 
Here are my thoughts now......PVC frame and composite "wood" for the step tops. You can have the steps hug the wall and put the rail on the the pool side of the steps. Can you "see" what am talking about. I can try to use photo shop to show you but my skills are not very good so.....BUT I am willing to try.

If this is an idea you like I have more info that would go along with this but I don't want to type it all out if you don't think this is something you are interested in it.

Just let me know.

Kim:kim:
 
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Like this maybe? Looks like PVC supports and some sort of boards - from this site Pool | Pets Behave
 
Hi, Hayseed. I have fibromyalgia, a herniated disk and an ankle that messes my balance up because it was broken in several places. These are the steps I use:

Confer Pool Steps
 
Thanks for all the ideas, the two step for a hot tub were, well two steps! The aluminum frame idea would be good if I could weld or braze it together. Along with plastic resin deck boards. Maybe there would not be as many bolts as I imagine if I had to go that route. The PVC would be real good but I don't see that product holding up so well, unless you could use 1 1/2 to 2 inch PVC poured sold with concrete for rigidity. That along with resin deck boards would als be heavy. I don't know this but I guess over the winter months you have to pull the steps out. Why? I am trying to understand how the railing would work. Placing steps to the side? In an oval pool is there a side clue enough for this? I cannot picture that. Thanks for the link to the stairs you posted Kel, but with a deck these are for no deck
 

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They also sell the same thing with just the one side, for those who have a deck. ;)
 
kellyfair said:
Hi, Hayseed. I have fibromyalgia, a herniated disk and an ankle that messes my balance up because it was broken in several places. These are the steps I use:

Confer Pool Steps
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I showed my wife, not these steps, but a small collection of maybe ten sets, that included these exact steps. Out of them all she chose the one you suggested ( just the pool entry ones ) because the hand rail reached further down to the bottom of the steps than the rest. I wonder if having them attached to the deck, would the bottom still float around and need to be waited down.
 
You could try without weighting, and if that’s not stable enough, weight them. You don’t have to put sand in them. Some people have made weights for them with empty bleach bottles filled with sand and bungeed underneath the stairs, or lengths of PVC, filled with sand or even concrete and capped at both ends.
 
Hayseed said:
Did you guys place anything underneath steps to assure liner protection? Some mention suctioned cupped shower mats
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Here is a poll I did a while back. I used a pad for a little while on this new pool but I hated the way it wouldn't quite stay put and especially the way dirt always seemed to be under it. Ladder/Stair Pads - do you use one?
 
JoeSelf said:
13 years here, no mat. Only spot on whole thing that still has the original color.

This is what I have. lumi-o.com Step #2 cracked at the back edge. trying out some JB Weld on soon.

If not I think i'm going to look for these. lumi-o.com
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oooo I like those new ones with the ballast container built in. cool!
 

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