My yard was not perfectly level when we set up out Intex frame pool last year. We needed to dig down a few inches in the north side to get it level. My DH started by using a 9' string tied to a center nail to get the circle and then we dug and leveled shovel by shovel full of dirt. It was a pain, but it did the trick. We picked up all the stones and roots and things before we layed down the tarp to put the pool on. So our pool was put up on Michigan dirt and not on the grass, for the most part. It worked out ok. At one end the pool was flush with the grass and the other end a couple of inches below. (I wouldn NOT have done this if our yard would have been the least bit sandy.)
I hope the set up will be more easy this year as the area is ready and waiting for the pool as soon as it gets warm enough. One thing with this way though the ladder needed to be on the side where the pool was on the grass as the ladder wasn't steady if it was on the dug side. The other thing I found out was to use a fake grass rug to wipe your feet on before getting into the pool. I tried the foot bucket but the bees keept buzzing the kids. The fake astro turf took the grass from the yard off our feet, and didn't attrack the bees. Kimrst
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