Leveling Ground Advice

ckruzer

ckruzer

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Just purchased an above ground pool for the kid this summer. Need to level this ground here. Do you recommend digging down to the level (notice tree proximity, roots) or should I build up with 4x4s as retaining walls and dirt?

9k gals of water to consider for building up

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I recommend not having a pool with that many leaf dropping trees around :D

Normally I would say dig out, and use the spoils to transition around the pool. But with the tree there, the roots will be a problem. Since its just a pool, if you fill dirt and then it settles, it doesn't really hurt anything. Get a dumptruck load of sand brought in and level it out by hand in a weekend.
 
Did something similar where ours is.. used a tiller and dug it down 6" and filled the other side 6" and then packed it in with Jeep and then spread sand.
 
If I were you, I would look for a different location. The trees and stuff will make keeping a clean/nice pool a pain.

That's the location you want and have available though, the quick and easy way with no trouble would be to build up. Get some 2x6 or something similar and bury them a little bit and make a box (use land scape timbers if you want just secure them to the ground, neither is truly necessary but helps). Make sure they're level and line up square. Make square box. Fill with sand, level out. Setup pool, make sure the bottom is stretched out and how you want before you fill with water. When satisfied, fill with water/enjoy.

Edit: 4x4s will work. Drill a hole, drive stake/rebar/whatever you want, through them into the ground.
 
Good timing on this for me. I'm going to have to go through the same thing. Wife bought one last year while we were living with relatives and building our house. I didn't level the ground thinking it was good enough. Boy was I wrong. Also it was such a pain in the ass to keep clean I told the wife I was going to give it away for free.

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I don’t know about you guys. But they invented this really neat thing called a “pool cover” and basically you leave it on when not in use.
 
ckruzer said:
I don’t know about you guys. But they invented this really neat thing called a “pool cover” and basically you leave it on when not in use.
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With that many trees, you better be putting that cover on the SECOND you get out of the pool, every time you get out of the pool. This is the very reason I have a pool membership. Our family loves swimming. I HATE cleaning a pool. For roughly what I would spend in pool chemicals per year, we can swim pretty much when we want to and when we are done, we roll on home. No dead frogs, snakes and rats to clean out of skimmers, no chemicals to mix and store, no fuss.
 
ManglerYJ said:
With that many trees, you better be putting that cover on the SECOND you get out of the pool, every time you get out of the pool. This is the very reason I have a pool membership. Our family loves swimming. I HATE cleaning a pool. For roughly what I would spend in pool chemicals per year, we can swim pretty much when we want to and when we are done, we roll on home. No dead frogs, snakes and rats to clean out of skimmers, no chemicals to mix and store, no fuss.
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Dude! Cleaning is the fun part! ITs what builds the pride in what youve built and maintained! Lmao. For real tho, I hear ya. On the chems tho, we have a lifetime supply so no need to worry about the added cost.
 
ckruzer said:
Dude! Cleaning is the fun part! ITs what builds the pride in what youve built and maintained! Lmao. For real tho, I hear ya. On the chems tho, we have a lifetime supply so no need to worry about the added cost.
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I'd rather a raging case of syphilis than ever have to clean a pool again in my life. Friend of mine growing up had an Olympic size pool in their highly wooded back yard. A 5 mph wind would push a fresh layer of sticks, twigs and leaves into it and we were all the time finding dead critters floating in it. they finally got wise to the cover and somehow a squirrel got in under the cover (I think around the ladder hole) and died. It was several days before we noticed the smell. Bloated, rotting squirrel meat is one of the most unappealing odors I've had the displeasure of smelling. Shortly after that smell was discovered, the nastiness that vomited up from a couple of teenage kids barely covered it. I think I had the smell in my nostrils for about a week.

You're welcome. Enjoy your pool.
 
ckruzer said:
digging down to the level
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Whatcha diggin with?

9k# mini-ex? hey it may take a little while to bust thru all those roots, but with the blade, you can cut/fill to a net zero. (may kill the trees, may not)

Access to a José or hose B? Still gonna have root problems.

I vote build up the backside with 4x4's and a load of sand

Still...post pics along the way :smokin:
 
ManglerYJ said:
I'd rather a raging case of syphilis than ever have to clean a pool again in my life. Friend of mine growing up had an Olympic size pool in their highly wooded back yard. A 5 mph wind would push a fresh layer of sticks, twigs and leaves into it and we were all the time finding dead critters floating in it. they finally got wise to the cover and somehow a squirrel got in under the cover (I think around the ladder hole) and died. It was several days before we noticed the smell. Bloated, rotting squirrel meat is one of the most unappealing odors I've had the displeasure of smelling. Shortly after that smell was discovered, the nastiness that vomited up from a couple of teenage kids barely covered it. I think I had the smell in my nostrils for about a week.

You're welcome. Enjoy your pool.
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Go google has much fecal and urinal shit is in your public pool. And the amount of hair and skin grease on the surface.

Don’t be a vagina

Lol
 
CasterTroy said:
Whatcha diggin with?

9k# mini-ex? hey it may take a little while to bust thru all those roots, but with the blade, you can cut/fill to a net zero. (may kill the trees, may not)

Access to a José or hose B? Still gonna have root problems.

I vote build up the backside with 4x4's and a load of sand

Still...post pics along the way :smokin:
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A shovel.
 
ckruzer said:
Well the more manual labor you do, the longer your dick grows. All that machine wizardry just makes yo belly grow and your dick shrivel.

True story
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I can attest to all of the above.
 
In all truth. It’s all blocked off. No access or I would have the skidsteer in there in a heart beat haha
 
obullfish said:
I refrain from all manual work and only use equipment just to keep my dick size under control.
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Proper maint keeps the black monster under control

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I had to buy 3 tractors just so she would let me.
 
ckruzer said:
Go google has much fecal and urinal shit is in your public pool. And the amount of hair and skin grease on the surface.

Don’t be a vagina

Lol
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Honestly, it's the same level (at least research seems to indicate it based on ppm or parts per million rates). It's just that a family pool brings familial urine and fecal matter as opposed to public urine and fecal matter. Remember, the solution to pollution is dilution. :)

My pool membership is a private pool, so odds are the urine is more Chardonnay based than Colt 45 based. :beer::poop:
 
Since it wasn't mentioned, You dig those roots & you Kill the tree. Maybe even the pool sitting On the roots will kill it.[root compression]. And it's So much easier to fill the low area, than to dig out!
 
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