Intex Ultra Frame 16' x 48" build

[jab240]

Not much of an update as I'm still leveling. Only got to work on it on Saturday for a few hours as it was raining here yesterday. I managed to get through the highest part so it shouldn't be much longer (I hope ). I have about a quarter of the circle left to go.

Instead of another dig pic I thought I'd post some of the items I've accumulated for the pool so far:



Don't mind the guess strips, I only picked them up to compliment the 3 way HTH test kit to tide me over until I get my Taylor kit. I think I'm going to return the strips since with my little timeline delay there should only be a week gap between the time the pool is filled and I have my Taylor kit. I've ordered the kit and will be crossing the border on July 4th for some shopping and parcel pickups.

The few bottles of fancy packaged bleach I picked up were on sale at one of box stores and have 10.8% Sodium Hypochlorite so I may have to adjust my dosing a little.



Of course that would be after I get to the proper CYA level after starting up with some Dichlor. Working late tonight so no progress will be made at the dig site. What a slow process.... can't wait to have to this thing up and running.

JB

[PoolDoc]

Nice pics; nice thread: it will help other!

Thanks!

[jab240]

Thanks Pooldoc. The forum has helped me learn a lot so far so I'm only happy to try and give back.

This arrived yesterday:


11mm 18ft SunBubble solar cover. I'll have to trim it a little but it was a definitely a good price. I seem to be getting lucky finding the good cartridge filters around here. I was in a one of our big box stores yesterday and found they started carrrying the Filbur cartridges. They are definitely a step up from Intex ones but I find the Unicel's quality is like night and day compared to the Filbur. The Unicel's have more weight to them and pleats seem more uniform.

Hopefully we have nice weather this evening so I can continue with my leveling. Between work, coaching my son's basketball team and the weather this seems to be dragging way longer than it should.

[Watermom]

... this seems to be dragging way longer than it should.

I know exactly what you are saying -- that's the way projects at my house go, too! If I think it will take a week, it'll take a month!

[jab240]

I know exactly what you are saying -- that's the way projects at my house go, too! If I think it will take a week, it'll take a month!

Well usually I drag projects out just to mess with my wife. The more she nags the longer it takes . But this time I'm actually trying to get it done sooner rather than later but it just doesn't want to work out that way. Gonna start working on it now and we'll see what I get done today.

[jab240]

I finally finished the bulk of my leveling on Thursday evening. Then it rained for the next 3 days! . I could not do any work on it all weekend. There was a silver lining on the rain clouds though. I was able to really get a good idea on how level the area is with all the water we got.



Those were taken Saturday morning and it shows divots and areas that can use a little fill. Yesterday evening the hole was completely water logged. I took a tape measure and measured the height of the water all around and I'm happy to say that the circle is pretty much leveled. Not your conventional water level but it worked . I'll spend the next couple of days now just fine tuning it with minor filling and tamping down. Hopefully the weather will cooperate this week.

[PoolDoc]

Thx.