r/AboveGroundPools

Pool ownership for me started with a lot of green water, wasted chemicals, and generic advice that never quite worked for my actual pool.

"Add a capful" doesn't mean much if you don't know what a capful does in a 45,000L pool versus a 10,000L one. And nobody ever told me the order mattered until I'd already ruined a few treatments by getting it backwards.

Once I'd actually figured it out, I built AquaCheck — you put in your pool's real volume and your test readings, it works out exactly what's out of range and exactly how much to add, in the right order. Free, no account, runs in the browser, also just went live on the Play Store.

Would love for people here to try it and pick holes in it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aquacheckapp.app. Genuinely happy to talk through anyone's chemistry questions in the comments too.

14 ft Intex, tried to make look as nice as possible. Many many thanks to this Reddit board. A lot of really useful info on here.

Is there any way at all to fix this without draining, at least long enough to finish the summer?? We have the new pole but at this point I’d rather drain it till next year so looking for a bandaid option lol

We recently bought a house that has an above ground pool. We are at our wits end with this pool, it has been one issue after another. Right when we thought we had it all figured out, the pressure gauge broke and we replaced it. It is now making a weird sound and this pressure gauge is already filled with water.

I think the noise is just the ill fitting pressure gauge rattling around, as we’ve had a pool service technician come out twice and he can’t find any other issue.

Does it seem like that’s the case from the noise? If so, I would like to remove it but we struggled to find something that would fit there. Any advice/guidance would be GREATLY appreciated!!! Please and thank you!!

I purchased off marketplace and had it professionally disassembled and then re-assembled at my house. 800 for the pool, pump, chlorinator and robot. 2500 for install and move, 1k for electrical. She is perfect.

Hey everyone! I just moved to Mexico and I'm looking for an above-ground pool for my rooftop terrace.

I'd love something deep enough (around 4.5 ft / 140 cm) where I can actually stand, chill, and enjoy the sunset and the view. 🌅

The problem is that most of the above-ground pools I can find are only around 3 ft deep.

I'm also working with limited space, so I don't want a huge pool taking up the entire roof. Ideally something around 10 × 6.5 ft (3 × 2 m), or somewhere around that size.

Does anyone know of a pool like this, or a brand/model I should look into? I'd also be open to other ideas that could work for a rooftop.

Thanks!

Went away for two weeks so put an extra (but, so I thought, not excessive) number of chlorine tablets in a floater and left pool as is. Not pumping during that time.

On return, a small area of the floor (BESTWAY) has bleached, apparebtly below where the floater settled for the period (alternative theory is somehow it got concentrated sunlight during the two weeks of constant heatwave conditions).

Was the chlorine the cause?, and what is the potential short and medium term impact? Is the floor, now more likely to give out this season and/or crack during winter dry storage?

Did a previous post about what would be a good option to vacuum up this algae at the bottom of my pool. I have a Coleman 22x52, and I’ve been struggling to get this algae out. Would it be best to purchase these 2 items to siphon out the algae (last photo)? I’ve already tried to siphon through my garden hose, tried a cordless vacuum that worked ok, and also used algaecide.

Hello, first time pool owner, had a big storm that blew a bunch of stuff into the pool while I was out of town and forgot to cover it. Seems like algae on the bottom of the pool, turned my sand filter on to run non stop and scrubbed the bottom of the pool to get all of it floating, and turned my salt water generator into boost mode. All my levels are fine, what else should I be doing to try to clear this up? Should I keep the boost mode going? Thank you!

Hoovering out daily and checking chemical levels are balanced but I keep coming out to this brown settlement on the bottom?

It so fine, can’t be hoovered (my hand pool vac just spits it out the other end) and I can’t pick it up either. As soon as it’s touched it disperses. Even tried pushing it all to the filter pump but no joy.

Only 3/8” difference on opposing sides of a 14’.
I added the pump after the picture shown, so it had the SX1500 and the salt chlorinator, with glass media in the filter.

We lightly tugged on opposing sides from the outside to straighten the liner so we didn’t have to get in.

We will be adding washed round stone, edge guards, and walkway lights too.

I think this Vevor pump comes with media, I’m looking to make sure I can backwash and stop flow without uninstalling a bunch of crap. Not sure what else might be a good idea to pick up at the same time!

This is my first pool. It’s an Intex ultra XTR with a Krystal sand filter. I add liquid chlorine almost every morning…some sources I’ve found say you should add in the evening due to the UV and chlorine degradation? I had clear water from the beginning of July to the end…I’m not sure what had happened but my water has been cloudy for the past few days. I can still see the bottom, but there are yellow spots. I’ve tried multiple things…brushed the walls and floor with a brush and then ran the filter nonstop for about 16 hours; shocked with liquid chlorine (about a gallon), added Clorox water clarifier…no luck…and when I checked the strips earlier today it showed total alkalinity higher than usual and of course pH higher than normal. I added muriatic acid (about 16 oz) and it’s still cloudy. I’m a newbie, does anyone have any advice? Please see the pics attached. I used two test strips: pool time and Aquachek7. From my perspective of these
most recent results, the total alkalinity is still high and pH as well of course free chlorine and total chlorine seem to be at adequate levels. I’m hoping someone’s dealt with this issue before or can at least give me some advice.

Finally got our liner replaced, only took us all summer. We went with the Doheny expandable liner for our 16x32 pool with a deep end. It’s not perfect but we’re happy and the kids are happier 🙌🏻