Intex Metal Frame Pool

[DCR]

If your asking if you can get by with uneven ground, I would say yes I bought one of these last year, and I did pretty much like the video shows I just walked around and picked up sticks and rocks, and I had no problems, and my ground was uneven by at least two inches.

One thing I would do is when your looking for rocks I would take off your shoes and walk around bare foot. It's better find them with your bare feet before you set the pool up, then after.

[tbelle]

For those of you who didn't remove the grass, what did your ground look like in the fall when you took down the pool. I'm asking this because about 4 summers ago when my son was 3, I got sick of emptying this little pool he had and left it in the same spot for 2 weeks. When I lifted it up, it had rotten, yellow grass and maggots underneath. It was disgusting and smelled horrible horrible horrible like a pig pen. We had a party that week for my son's bd and no one could go in the back yard because you could smell it from the door.

What tool did you use to remove the grass???

Thanks, Teena

[darenjones]

I for one, removed all of the grass, and as many roots as I could. I set one up before (a 16' pop up) on the grass with similar issues.
as far as the tool/
a shovel, heavy rake, and leaf rake, a few afternoons, and i was done.

I don't intend on taking mine down (I do live in fla, so our winter isn't that long) mainly because I don't want to have to pay for the water again, I would rather pay a few dollars in chemicals to keep it clean during the winter rather than go through all of the he!! in putting it back up!
just my 2 cents.

[tbelle]

Thank you, grass definately has to come up.

[DCR]

I did not remove my grass last year, and yes when I took the pool down what grass was left was dead and rotten smelling, actually smelled like cow poop, which explains why they smell the way they do, but the smell went away pretty quickly, and the grass never came back. This year I just tilled up the hard soil got rid of all rocks, and raked it smooth.

[DreamGaz]

I have a good 6 inch slope in my backyard. I borrowed a tiller and tilled the area. Lots of raking to clear and level the area, tapped down the pool area, and then put down the tarp and set up the pool. The tilling, raking, and tapping took about half a day, after that the pool set up was easy.

[tbelle]

Thanks!

I called Home Depot and Dixie Rents and they both rent a small sod cutter.
My brother-in-law also has a tiller. Tiller would be free, sod cutter would be 80.00 for a day.

Now I'm worried about the cats. Someone posted that a cat popped their pool. We have "stray" cats that come out at night; they like to sit on our fence and I'm sure everyone else's also. Argh!!!