We picked a spot in our yard that allowed egress on all sides was close enough to our.
Above ground pool settling.
Avoid these common mistakes when building your above ground pool.
4 inches you can live with.
No matter which type you want it s important to plan the installation carefully.
Expansive soil may be typical of the area or neighborhood.
The ground on that side is softer.
But if your pool is flat on the ground i would try to stay within the manufactures recommendations which is usually 1.
All above ground pools require flat space covered in either grass or sand to operate safely.
A redo involves adding more sand to your 6 inch sand base.
This is probably the top mistake we see people make.
If you don t have a bottom drain there s a little hack you can use that also works with above ground pools.
Damaged coping pieces can often be repaired or replaced with limited cost and time.
Slurry is the best backfill.
You can simply connect your manual vacuum cleaner as usual but instead put the vacuum upside down in the middle of your pool forcing it to pull water from the bottom.
The pool must be filled prior to backfilling to prevent pool wall collapse and the water level in the pool must always be higher than ground level by at least 1 foot.
Building up the low areas with dirt taken from the higher areas.
Above ground pool pumps have to stay below the waterline there are a few differences between in ground pool pumps and above ground pumps.
A pool 2 in the ground could go several inches off and be fine.
If the pool or soil has shifted then additional work may be necessary.
If you are pushing the dirt around to level out the site for the pool eventually the dirt will settle and your pool will no longer be level.
The biggest one is that an above ground pool pump cannot draw water up.
Settling of the soil or pool.
There are lots of options for figuring out level water levels plumb bobs line levels etc.
Your pool is settling for the same reason the leaning tower of pisa leans.
Level an above ground pool step 1.