FAQs & Guides: Above-ground pools

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FAQs & Guides: Above-ground pools

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I'm updating the original FAQ, which dates back to 2006!

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Accessories- Lights, ladders, steps and cleaners

Dark Buster Light
Automatic cleaner advice
A good discussion about automatic cleaners
Robo Kleen cleaners
AquaBot Pool Rover
Holding down wedding cake steps
more about weighing down steps
another weight discussion
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Base and cove - Sand, concrete, foam and preformed pool

Happy bottom and preformed pool cove
Styrofoam or sand
Do we need Happy Bottom?
Coving and wall foam
Preformed pool cove
Plastic before the sand cove
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Consumer report - check here before you buy

Buying an above ground pool
Doughboy or Esther Williams
Steel - Aluminum - Resin ?
Walls - Aluminum, galvanized or copper?
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Filtration - Size, type and trouble shooting

How long to backwash?
Advice for buying a new pump
Hard plumbing
Air in a sand filter
What size pump and filter?
When to change the filter sand?
Cartridge or sand, a good discussion
Backwashing a sand filter
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General pool advice

Draining a pool
Just an example of the wisdom that can be found here
Water loss from evaporation
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Heating - Everything related to keeping your pool a little warmer

Solar Panels
Good advice about solar panels
More solar panel info
Solar covers
Solar panel troubleshooting
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Installation - Tips and advice

Photos - Oval pool installation
Blocks, leveling and oval pools
The ongoing question, blocks or no blocks?
All of us installing an oval pool
Installing a center drain
Question about leveling
Leveling the ground
Building a pool with our help, good things to be learned here
Is deeper better?
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Liners - Where to buy them and how to install them

Temperature and liner installation
Where to buy a liner
Installation pics and advice
Matt4x4 tips and advice for installing a liner
More places to buy liners
Another installation method that works well for deep ends
Some pics of what you don't want and how to fix
A few thoughts before you order your liner
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Metal Frames and easy set pools

Easy set pros and cons
Intex frame pool
More good reading about portable pools
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Repairs - Liners, walls and other stuff

Repair small hole in wall
Sometimes it's just this simple
Finding holes in a liner
Finding a hole and patching
Termites and liners
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