Installing Intex Metal Ultra Frame 18 X 52 pool in a yard that tends to stay wet.

[bartleby1]

Thank you for the response. Many people in our neighborhood do have above ground pools and although most of the yards appear to be the same level, we have had a definite problem with our back yard staying very soggy, especially the back maybe 8-10 feet of the yard to the back fence. When my husband replaced the fence last year, his holes for the posts were filling in with water as he dug. We're not sure why this is but our yard definitely seems wetter than most others around here.

So, in your opinion, if we created a circle of mulch to put the pool on, that should prevent the pool from sinking unevenly? Would mulch be better than dirt of some sort? I'm so afraid that once we start filling the pool with water that it will sink unevenly into the soft ground and therefore not be level. The mulch should prevent that?

[PoolDoc]

I don't think the mulch will guarantee that it won't sink - I wasn't considering that. I rather doubt that it will, but if you have a very high subsurface water level, things get unpredictable. Having a raised mulch bed under the pool should make it easier to level the pool, and to keep the water from puddling in a single spot. But there's no way to prevent some of the consequences of adding water to ground that's already soggy.

The good news is that, compared to other pools, sinking is far less of an issue: if there's a problem, you can fairly easily take the pool down, correct it, and then put it back up. Setting up an 18' Intex, once you've done it, is probably not more than a 2 hour job for 2 people.