upndown
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Glad you nixed the deck idea! Don't kid yourself, there is still maint. and upkeep with an above ground pool! The nice part is when the kids outgrow it you take it down..No More Pool.. We enjoyed ours for years. 
Above ground pool on deck?
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Some how if it was me, that cat would accidentally get bumped into the pool . . . . . atleast once.
mrodgers
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Salt water system is your friend there. I have a 22', about 10,000 gallons and the most upkeep I do is fill up a few inches in the spring and add bleach, and baking soda, 5 minutes every few days to test the water through the summer, add a few gallons of bleach and drain down a few inches and cover for the winter. Very little maintenance at all if you learn to do it yourself and don't listen to a pool store....plus pools require upkeep and we all know who will be doing that(me). I'd rather tend to my shop...
OP
Air_Cooled_Nut
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Glad you nixed the deck idea! Don't kid yourself, there is still maint. and upkeep with an above ground pool! The nice part is when the kids outgrow it you take it down..No More Pool.. We enjoyed ours for years.
Yes, I know. I'll be the one doing it.
OP
Air_Cooled_Nut
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LOL! Yes, even though I love animals that though had crossed my mind. He's not too dumb so it'd likely be just once and he'd forever stay away from it
OP
Air_Cooled_Nut
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The pool came with that advertisement (INTEX pool). Sounds very good to me
Thanks for the positive suggestion!We're very happy with our Splash super Pool.
RickP
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Have you thought about building a platform at ground level for the pool? I just built one for a hot tub and it was a lot easier than digging a sand foundation. Mine is about four inches off the ground and supports about 500 gal of water. I designed it to support 5,000 lbs, but you could easily design it for 13,000 lbs, and the cost/effort wouldn't increase that much. It helps keep grass/dirt out of the pool and makes a nice level foundation -- one that wouldn't have to be re-done every spring when the pool goes outside. And if you ever get rid of the pool, the platform can just be removed and the treated lumber re-used for another project.
I used concrete paving stones as footers -- a whole bunch of them -- 24" OC along each joist, but you could easily double that. The "joists" are landscape timbers, which were $4 apiece at Home Depot. Mine are spaced 16" OC, but you could easily double that too. The platform is treated wood 2x4s, spaced about 4" OC -- the gaps between them are just wide enough to let water drain through.
The hardest part of the job was using a shovel to get all of the footers level. Mine has been in use for three months now, with no uneven settling at all. But even if yours started to settle on one side, you could remove the platform and re-level the footers pretty easily. I'm planning to move the hot tub someday, so mine is definitely temporary. I'm sure I have less than $200 in materials total -- and the labor was about one weekend.
I used concrete paving stones as footers -- a whole bunch of them -- 24" OC along each joist, but you could easily double that. The "joists" are landscape timbers, which were $4 apiece at Home Depot. Mine are spaced 16" OC, but you could easily double that too. The platform is treated wood 2x4s, spaced about 4" OC -- the gaps between them are just wide enough to let water drain through.
The hardest part of the job was using a shovel to get all of the footers level. Mine has been in use for three months now, with no uneven settling at all. But even if yours started to settle on one side, you could remove the platform and re-level the footers pretty easily. I'm planning to move the hot tub someday, so mine is definitely temporary. I'm sure I have less than $200 in materials total -- and the labor was about one weekend.
RickP
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Here's a picture of the finished platform:
Mine is only 8 feet square, and I used a couple of 2x10s instead of 2x4s at the edges.
Mine is only 8 feet square, and I used a couple of 2x10s instead of 2x4s at the edges.
bczygan
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Please take video for us when you fill it...
RickP
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My hot tub platform has been supporting 5,000 lbs for almost four months -- with no settling whatsoever. It would easily support 13,000 lbs if the number of concrete supports was tripled and the number of joists doubled. The cost would still be under $200 for a beefier 10x10 platform.
I used 35 concrete supports, so each one is supporting 143 lbs. That's about 6 psi, or 860 lbs per sq ft (psf). My soil has at least 2,000 psf bearing capacity, so I've got a decent factor of safety built in before it starts to settle. I'd be worried more about frost heaving, but it would be perfect for a pool that gets moved to the basement every winter. Since mine's only a temporary solution, I'm planning to remove it before winter anyway.
IONH
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I think he was referring to OP, not you. Yours looks sturdy enough to me.
mrodgers
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If you're still reading the thread....The pool came with that advertisement (INTEX pool). Sounds very good to me
www.troublefreepool.com
The Garage Journal of swimming pools. You will learn everything you need to learn about pools and pool water chemistry here(it is so simple to take care of your own pool if you know how.) For the record since you mention it, my pool is Intex with the Intex SWG. Works fantastic. Like I said, I literally only test every few days all summer and don't do another thing. I could drop a credit card down to the bottom of the pool and read the numbers on it, that is how clear the water is. Where people have problems with pools is listening to a pool store. They just want to sell product, not make your pool nice.
ChevyEFI
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I benefit from reading and posting on TFP's forum and from having a great local pool store. Taking the approach of shoving $60 chemicals at you every time you walk in is not what AM Corsons in the Phx area does. They've sold me chlorine, algaecide, and hardware. They don't sell me overpriced sand or heavily marked up pvc fittings unless I tell them I don't wanna make a second.stop that day. They have parts in stock too. Don't sour every store based on chains' behavior.
davidlee
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"Don't listen to the pool store", yea, don't listen to your doctor or your lawyer either. As an owner of a pool store for over 40 years we didn't stay in business by pushing products. We stayed in business by giving honest answers to pool problems and sold the NECESSARY chemicals to treat those problems.
I can take some pictures of this thing tomorrow and post them and see if any of you share my passion or concern for this thing being on on this deck that I built hoping until they will be some code violation so that I can have enough justification to move it there my wife really wants it where it is but I think it is a bit dangerous
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