Hi! I, too, am a FantaSea pool owner, now in my 12th season. I have what was called an "Add-A-Deck" pool, custom-sized at 16'x40' with a 5 1/2' hopper deep end. It is built into my deck and we love it! The "Add-A-Deck" is simply the structure of the pool, with the 2' foot solar panels, no other deck, railing, stairs, etc.
It is, however, a high-maintenance pool, as I have to replace a solar panel or two nearly every year. I made the solar system far more efficient several years ago by building a manifold with two valves, splitting the solar deck into 2 halves (North-West and South-East), and cutting new returns at the far end of the pool. The old warm-water return, near the main return, was converted to an automatic over-flow drain. This way, I can turn on the panels in the sun, and turn off the panels out of it, and when both sets are on, with each having the same flow rate as the whole together, it heats the pool faster.
This year will be the last of the liner. I have the "Space-Age" walls and they haven't held up as well as I had hoped, developing corrosion that threatens to penetrate the liner. So when I close the pool this fall, I'm going to drain it, pull out the liner and remove the "Space-Age" walls. I plan on then scraping lots of rust of and treating the metal with anti-rust spray, putting in a new set of plywood waterwalls (the standard, to reduce cost and they don't bow as much), and then, in the spring, leveling the sand and installing the new liner, complete with new returns, and new gaskets for the lights and skimmer. I also need to replace at least 3 of the liner copings, damaged by the weird, crazy winter we had. Hopefully, the pool will be good for at least another dozen or so years!
Unfortunately, while Leisure Living, aka Island Pools, isn't selling the Fanta Sea pools any more, they are still selling new Kayak pools, which are similar but do not have the solar deck. I gather they had a fire about 5 years ago that destroyed many of their one-off templates they used for the Fanta Seas and haven't recreated them (not sure why). But they still are able to supply most of the parts for the pools.
So I am pretty up on Fanta Sea pools and their issues.
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