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[matt4x4]

Instruction Manual???
I have a tshirt that has my philosophy on it.

Binford Tools - real men don't need instructions

As for timeframes, don't you find the little pools go up in a flash compared to the big ones? My wall was a BIG PITA - 400 lbs and 100 feet long!!! - why they can't just make it a 2 piece I just don't understand.......

Oh, and BTW - WRT the pics, the first bunch were taken may the year I built it, the rest with the solar roller were from the following year in june.

[denanbob]

Great pool, Matt!! Thanks for sharing your pics. My pool is almost to the point where we need to shut off the water and install the skimmer and return. Just a couple more inches and we're good to go. I've been using my well. Yesterday, I started with 2 hoses and let it run about 9 hours. Today, I only have it going about 2 hours because I'm going to work this afternoon and I don't want to leave it unattended. We COULD be swimming by Sunday (if we like 60 degrees I guess). LOL! Tomorrow is the electrical work and then we'll start on the temporary deck.

[posguy]

Now thats country living Matt. Beautiful piece of land! I get property envy when I see some of these pics. I was just able to clear the 7' setback limit on the back and sides for my 24'rd pool on my little .25 acre. Nice pool too.

Anthony

[hrsdennis]

Hey Matt, I did say glance at the instructions. Never more than that or it would not be very manly.

Yard envy, big time. That is really nice.

As for the walls, at least that is one thing Doughboy does right. They split the wall of all of there bigger pools into two sections.

Walls have gotten much heavier over the last few years. A while back all pools were 48" walls with few larger than 24' or 16' x 32'. Now it is not uncommon to see a 33' foot round pool with a 54" wall. Yes, they weigh a ton.

I have completely quit trying to lift these bad boys. I move them with a dolly and use a back and forth rock and roll motion to unwind the wall as I put it into the bottom rail. It is still a one man operation for me and does not really slow me down. A lot more grunting and groaning though.

Later, Dennis

[matt4x4]

Thanks for the comments - yes, we love our little piece of heaven, we've had the creek flood over in winter, then freeze and we have had as much as 2 acres perfectly skateable - a great neigbourhood skating party!
My dog's the real beneficiery of this place since he's home all day long chasing squirrels, digging up gophers and anything else he can find - he doesn't even like coming in at night anymore, a real country dog!

Dennis, yes, those walls do require a lot of back and forth, I did mine with all the sand in there, ended up just shoving planks under it and keeping a couple spares to move to once one set ran out - having a solid surface under it makes the unrolling job easier.

[NWMNMom]

Matt, we did ours exactly like you described with the planks. BTW, what is the wall pattern on your pool called? It looks almost exactly like ours....Mystic Palm it was called.

Beautiful yard - how do you mow all that? Must have a yard tractor with mower? We live out in the country too, but have a lot more woods surrounding everything - we popped our pool back into a nice protected spot only open to the west, but not too much (house is maybe 75' to the west) We get some STRONG N and S winds sometimes - but rarely feel more than a breeze at the pool.

Your solar reel was our inspiration for building ours. Nothing mounted to the rails of the pool, nothing to lift off and put somewhere else.

[matt4x4]

Thanks NWMNMom,
Not sure what it's called, I think Boreal according to the brochure http://www.piscinesvogue.com/_media/.../Impact_US.pdf

As for mowing, yes we have a lawntractor, we're working on woods, I have many baby maples in the field behind the pool, our place is pretty much surrounded with trees along the fences, and our driveway is lined with many maples, we have approximately 20 Willows of all sizes - they may be messy, but they're beautiful trees, and when you live in the country as you well know, a messy tree is not a bad thing as long as it's not near the house or pool!
We get good breezes at the pool due to it's open location, therefore teh need for the solar cover, it's actually more of an evaporation shield than anything else, our solar panels do the heating, the pool is usually 5-10 deg warmer than anyone else's in our little hamlet, even though almost everyone has a pool, the kids seem to swarm to our house for a swim.