Above ground pool advice (on components/pool/liners/etc)

[apenney]

In my endless updating of my own thread (naughty) I also discovered an Embassy Century pool for $1265. Given that this is basically a cut rate Doughboy pool I'm thinking it might be a better choice than the Paragon.

[CarlD]

Hi.
First off, the pool frog is a waste of money. Most of the other equip seems reasonable.

HOWEVER--anyone who tells you all you gotta do to clean a cartridge filter is just hose it off is....LYING! They are much trickier to clean but those of us who have them and have mastered them love them. The rest of us use either DE filters, or, more commonly, sand filters, many of whom switched from carts. I'm a sand filter guy and have been for 12 seasons. Before that, I had a small cart.

[apenney]

This is probably a dumb question but, given the century pool I listed above and the liner that they suggest... Do I need to buy bead receivers seperately? It linked to "people who bought X also bought http://www.poolstore.com/p/3709/bead-receivers-for-above-ground-pool-liners" and I was suddenly unsure if I need to buy those or not. I see why people just buy packages now.

[CarlD]

I'm sorry but I don't know the answer to that question.