I dropped my new steps in today. So the water was a little hazy, but I just opened the pool & hooked up the pump on Wednesday. I wanted to try these steps out.

First I brought my old set of drop in steps to the end of my driveway on Sunday and within 1 hour they were sold. There was nothing wrong with them, I just hated the process of anchoring them down. I made a couple very happy with the $50 price. I even gave them my custom made weights to go with it.

I chose the Festiva because it looked liked I would not have to anchor the steps to the deck. My former steps were that way. I confirmed this when filling the two weighted steps (the bottom and the third up from the bottom) this staircase is stable and will not float. I would estimate I have about 45lbs of stone in each step.

I even went into the pool and caused some waves and the steps rocked a little but did not wander away. The old steps did the same.

I also like the fact that these are all plastic including the rails.

Some pix: