Swimming Pool - Part 2

After several weeks, we're back to the swimming pool project. The next step was to level the ground and make sure it was free of rocks.

After checking for level, raking, checking for level, raking, throwing out rocks, checking for level (you get the idea) the ground was as level as it was going to be.  Next we watered the area down to help speed along the settling process.

Now the fun part!  Setting up the pool.  First we laid down two tarps to keep grass and weeds from growing up through the liner.  Then we positioned the pool on the tarps.

 Then you just insert the cross bars, legs, support strapping, etc.  Dan did this part by himself in about an hour.  Then he put about 2 inches of water in the pool to...

1) Make sure it didn't leak.
2) Smooth out the lining.
3) Play in the water.




Now all we need is some water!  Our well is only about 30 feet from the pool, but we chose not to fill it from there.  Since it hasn't rained in weeks, there's no way to tell how much water is in the well and Dan was afraid the well pump might burn up filling a 7000 gallon pool.  So, we called the Fire Department and they're going to deliver the water in a day or two.  It's not necessarily cheap to have them do this, but less expensive than a new well pump.  Pretty soon I'll have pics of us swimming!