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Thursday, July 03, 2003
Have you seen the swimming pools that are basically a big bag with an inflatable ring at the top? The directions say to spread the thing out on level ground, inflate the ring and fill with water while spreading the base out to remove wrinkles in the bottom. Well who has level ground? Jenny and I set ours up and I threw caution to the wind (against my lovely wife's wise advice) to quickly get it set up. Well, the area in which we placed the pool sloped a bit and unfortunately the slope was directly away from the pump inlet. So, by the time the edge of the pool at the low end of the slope was nearly overflowing with water, the inlet for the pump was only about halfway under. Not good. We left it up for a few days with the 3000 some gallons of water in it for the kids to play in. Then I drained it Tuesday night with the plan to simply get a load of sand and level off the low area. I took the chain link fence section down on the side of the house so I could pull a pickup truck with sand all the way into the back yard to lessen the shoveling of sand. Have I mentioned that I don't like doing this kind of stuff even one time? Jason Frederick kindly offered to use a flatbed trailer he owns to pickup the sand for me at Mulzer's - that was a blessing. Glynn Beck came over to assist us in off-loading the sand. We drove stakes into the ground and tied twine to the stakes across the area for the pool. We used a level to roughly level the string from one stake to the other. We attempted to build the sand up to the string in the low area. Everything looked good as we raked the sand out flat. We laid the pool back down and started to fill while replacing the fence section and gate. Unfortunately the pool did not fill evenly as expected. Now the water was running along a slope in a different direction. We tried to move the pool, move sand around for what seemed like 12 hours. Currently the pool is sitting wadded up in one section of my yard and I have a huge circular cat crapping area. 7/03/2003 10:13:00 AM by Todd Bacon 0 comments | ||
