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Is your cooler ice box just free standing, or did you cement the legs to keep it in place. I want to build one like yours. I have seen several on youtube, but I like how you extended it to give it a shelf. Also for the legs are they 2 x 4 's or just boards? Thanks
Its free-standing. I live in an area prone to tornadoes and high winds and Its never blown over. I actually made it 100% out of cedar fence pickets. Just cut off the dogears and you have cheap pieces of wood that will withstand the elements for years.
I don’t think it’s required, but I think it either helps aerates the water, which helps keep the water clean or similar to house plumbing venting, it helps keep the water flowing at its highest capacity.
Yes. It’s a Hayward skimmer and available on Amazon. You do have to cut your liner, but if done correctly, the pool and skimmer will last many years. I’ve had this skimmer for about 5 years with zero problem. The skimmer mod is probably one of my most favorite mods I’ve done to the pool because It allows me to use a traditional hose and pool vacuum and it’s easy to clean the basket. I believe almost any above ground pool skimmer would work.
Any updates? I've just bought my first pool. It's a 12ft 39" Bestway and your setup is the best I've seen. The detail and care you've put into it is fantastic.
I'd be careful hard piping too much, remember, pool moves but PVC Coming up from the ground doesn't, use flex pvc for flex points. just my 2 cents. GJ and thanks for your video.
The pool comes with 2 black top hat looking rubber stoppers for the outlets. I just used those and pushed them through the outlet holes from the inside of the pool to the outside so that the top hat portion of the stopper stuck outside the pool. I then added a small hose clamp on the outside of the pool for each outlet.
It does bubble a little. I believe the air ingress coming from the furnco right before the pump because if I shut off the pump it slowly leaks water from that fitting . It’s never ran dry and I’ve never had a problem with air locking the pump so I’ve never tried to hunt down where it’s coming from. I run my pump 24/7 and the bubbles eventually work their way out after running for a day or so.
Thanks! We've decided to replace the pool this season. The rust got bad, but it lasted over 5 seasons and we knew it would eventually rust so we planned for this at some point. Yes, we keep it up year round and I do empty it at offseason just below all of the plastic connections and skimmer. At opening, I drain it completely and scrub the pool before putting in new water.
@@ChuckTate77 good to know Chuck, thank you. Do you treat the water (chlorine, etc) or do any maintenance during the offseason or just let it get "ripe and green" then drain, scrub and fill/treat when you open it up?
@@BradleyLivestreams I just let it ripe and green during the off-season. I do use a closing pill and I also net out any leaves and/or debris throughout the offseason just to make cleaning a little easier at opening.
Great ideas! I have the same table next my pool but I put my ice chest on top of it, like an idiot! I'll be cutting it to fit later lol! Innovative man!!
Not sure where you're talking about, but the PVC to the pump and back to the pool is plumbed using 1 1/2" PVC. The 1 1/2" PVC is larger, or as large, in diameter than any of the fittings that came with the pool or pump. The PVC is not a bottleneck in the plumbing. If your taking about the misters, that are not shown in this video - those were my intentions was to match the PVC with the water hose diameter to keep the pressure the same. The mister tips are rated for certain pressures and I purchased mister tips rated for city water pressure. In order for me to keep the pressure the same as city water, I had to install the same size PVC diameter as my water hose.
The leaf basket will clog if you vacuum a bunch of leaf debris but I don't own any trees so i really don't get much leaf debris during the summer. So, its usually just simply emptying the basket after a vacuum and i'm done.
I no longer have the Coleman hot tub. I now have an Intex hot tub. The Coleman's heater/pump went out and those heater/pumps are difficult to find replacement parts. I do love the hot tub though and it is well worth the money. My wife does the bills so I wouldn't know for sure BUT I would think if it was a significant increase she would have mentioned it. I would assume running the heater/pump during the winter wouldn't increase the electric bill more than $10-$20 a month. Small price to pay for the enjoyment in my opinion.
Have you noticed any issues with having the PVC attached, buried, with no hoses to sort of take up the motion of the pool? I saw a warning about that somewhere on RU-vid. I have pvc attached to hoses before going to my pump (and I’d love to bury it like you did) because my kids (and I) can really get the waves going and I feel like it needs to have some give.
I’ve had my pool piped like this for 4-5 seasons now and haven’t had any issues. But, I do have long pieces of PVC going from the pool fitting to the first 90 in the ground along with a rubber furnco at the top. I have a 16 yo, and him and his friends (about 8 of them) get those waves going and have also done the whirlpool in the pool and I’ve never had any issue. I mention my son only because you know how teenage boys try and make the biggest and fastest waves and whirlpools.. lol. And if it has lasted through their torment then I’m not too worried about it. If you wanted, you could add a fernco in the middle of your PVC that goes into the ground. Like adding a 1-1/2” to 1-1/2” fernco in the middle for no reason but to provide additional flexibility between the moving pool sides and your static PVC.
Not necessarily. I use the sand filter because the pump/filter that comes with the pool, in my opinion, is undersized. I believe the use of the stock pump/filter leads to a lot of water quality issues and additional time spent maintaining the pool. The salt system will also work with the stock pump/filter. As matter-of-fact, I ran my salt system with the stock pump/filter for a year or two. I use salt because its requires less chemicals (just add salt at season opening), less maintenance, is easier on my eyes, hair, swimsuits than chlorine and the whole pool doesn't smell like chlorine. Neither a salt system or a sand filter is required to enjoy your pool for the summer. For me, it was more of a luxury because I no longer had to spend money on chemicals or time everyday testing the water.
Yes, I had to level the ground. I rented a tiller to loosen the dirt then dug out about 2"-3" of dirt. Filled with concrete sand and leveled the sand by hammering a stake in the middle with a long 2"x4" screwed to the top of the stake. Then I taped a long level to the 2"x4" and slowly made my way around leveling the sand as I pushed the 2x4 in circles.
Yeah that's a lot of work. Good job. I am not that handy. I had already bought the pool but then realized how hard and costly it is to upgrade it and get it to work. Something to consider before purchasing.
@@MrBaselito If you start with a level surface, setting up your pool really isn't that bad at all. And obviously the pool will operate without the upgrades. The upgrades just make the pool easier to maintain.
So I actually have 3 different sizes. The one going from my skimmer to the PVC is 1 1/4"-1 1/2". The one going from the PVC to the pump is 1 1/2"-2" and the last going from the chlorine generator to the PVC is a 2"-2". NOTE: I have an old PVC connector that I didn't cut off of the PVC at the chlorine generator. This connector was left over from making piping adjustments when I was setting this all up. If I didn't have that old PVC connector on there that fernco would have been another 1 1/2"-2" fernco.
Let me say this, I've had Intex pools with and without saltwater. The pool WITHOUT saltwater had to be replaced at the end of its 5th season due to rust. My pool WITH saltwater, which is what you see in the video, is being replaced this spring due to rust and I would have been going into it's 5th season with it. So did the saltwater shorten the pools life? I don't know, its hard to say because all Intex metal frame pools are known to rust. That being said, it may have shortened my pool's life by maybe 1 season but the time & money not spent maintaining the pool during the swim seasons is well worth the shortened pool life. I know my response doesn't give you a definitive answer but that's my experience with Intex metal frame pools with/without saltwater.
@Creative Newborns I leave my pool up. I just drain the pool below the inlet/outlet, disconnect all of the fittings and bring them inside, cover with a pool tarp and add a pool closing pill. I believe the average lows in my state are about 25F to 30F degrees or so during the winter. Obviously, most of the country had that deep freeze this winter and we had temps -10 degrees or so and the pool survived just fine.
Note. You can also use a CARLON 1-1/2-in Pull Connector Conduit Fitting instead of the piece you're using on 3:11. It's already cut for you. They're sold at Lowe's or Home depot.
