The TRUTH about above ground pools. (2023)

Introduction

The Best & the worst about above ground pools, and what you should know.

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Content

The above ground pool Journey has been interesting three years, Two Poles.

This is what I can give you everything that went good and bad.

We tried a bunch of things we tried this, and it worked.

We tried this and that worked better than this.

Then we tried this and well, I, don't know it still works, but it might not have been the safest thing we even tried scuba diving in the pool.

And that was pretty rad too.

And then we also had a bunch of fails things that made us lose the pool multiple times, and then ultimately resulted in us having to replace the pull entirely.

And other things went wrong.

Things that I wish I would have known before I ever got this pull things I tried out of desperation that still worked miraculously and then things that are just refined over time that we know now to be better.

This is an entire video encompassing everything.

You should know about one of these pools if you choose to get one today, we review the three year journey of things that went really good versus things that maybe didn't age.

So well, we also show you some unique products that work really well and would be great for any first time first year pool owner.

So your pool could just stay looking like this without the three years of fail.

Heads up.

We are giving two pool pumps away for the kickoff of this video.

Compliments of viva viva is a giant Amazon Seller, who has pretty much anything tool wise that you could ever imagine if you need it for a project it's, probably there their store is monstrous.

You just type in Beaver pool.

And all these products come up just by themselves to include this pool pump other ones similar to it in either higher or lower horsepower ranges, all kinds of actual utilities and accessories, including that Fountain.

Everybody love the fountain.

You could just buy one with a remote and install in your pool.

But check this out I was initially gonna just install this on my pool.

But the fittings are a little too big, because this is a much higher horsepower filter than my actual Intex one.

So it didn't convert over.

But this pump is much more powerful than the pump.

You saw on my pool, and it will convert over to any in-ground or above ground pool with the sand filter.

If you want this pump, all you have to do is comment on this video, and we will choose two lucky winners via response to your comments, I love.

This bowl thing.

It's, pretty cool.

You can make little mods our mods that we made since the first one like this thing, it's, a little discolored should have painted it.

Instead of a instead of, uh, staining it.

This thing has seen better days, but I put a whole whopping what 15 minutes to make.

It could make something much nicer and more elegant, probably if I attached it correctly, it wouldn't be so badly.

Warped we could have really gone pretty far out with this thing, but we're, not really sure we we dab between wanting to get an actual pull.

And then just keeping this one in here for convenience, because it is very convenient, um.

So we don't know a lot of things going on all at once the only way the stock pump setting would ever work long term is if you put this inside a house like if you had a room who has that much room just free to put a 20-foot pole, there, no it's gonna go outside.

So just know that out of the gate, little stock pumps, they're garbage.

When I say, the sock filters, inadequate, I mean, it's, inadequate, they can't pump in these the nearer, the amount of water it's needed the filters have to be cleaned daily.

It was a daily struggle to clean these filters.

It was terrible I hated it.

The only thing that is worth anything in that pool setup is the actual pool liner itself.

Secondly, we did.

We did put an initial like revamp video of this where we used the initial stock hose fittings and plugged it right into this.

So you can just drop this in right then immediately and then install something else like this later, but really I would just try and combo it all together.

This is the Hayward skimmer.

We have a video on installing it.

It is a do it all much better flow.

And this is considering I had this amp.

A lot of people asked, why I didn't, go ahead and put the waterfall system in with the inlet nozzles that we've replaced down here.

And why I just kind of kept this thing.

This thing filtered better than my other setup like a lot better.

You could tell the circulation was so much better full stay cleaner for longer.

It was just a better overall system.

And so at that point in time, I didn't, I really chose to steer away from the waterfall system or the bottom Inlet systems.

Just the thing is great and on top of that we're going to show you here in a little bit.

This just had a vacuum attachment, it's all ahead.

So we have a video on this coming out, really shortly on how we vacuum and how it did.

But this just goes in here like so plugs in there you turn it on, you make sure it's suctioning and it cleans the pool like it's, the best vacuum ever.

It was way better than the inlets I mean, it's, really just a small simplistic very very, you know, economically, friendly cost effective system this.

It would save your whole pool.

The whole thing I, manage, just the ability to vacuum and maintenance the pool, which we're obviously gonna have to do today.

Because the storm came through.

And some more stuff came in there like that's, a pair of somebody's shorts back there I, don't know whose shorts that it's kind of weird, but um, the ability to use actual pull attachments like this one, which I broke.

But you know, for example, say, you know, it's got It's got the brushes to knock up the dirt it's got the cover area to kind of keep the dirt enclosed in it.

Well, it has time to suction it through the hole and other attachments like this one, which is a long bristle brush with the attachment section in there, which I personally like for the contoured edges, because the flat edges got everything else, but the contoured edges, I used a brush.

So I would get both attached or deviation of both obviously the long aluminum pole.

So you can actually start using some pool like things in here.

And we got this I think this is inch and a quarter one and one eighth inch or one and a half inch hose thing.

I, don't know what the actual Inlet is, but it's like the smaller hose, the smaller lighter hose I got that from Lowe's and I'm, getting a bigger one to actually pump out the water have a hose attachment or deviation that'll actually pump out the water like conveniently away from your property.

So you don't have any damage to the property line.

We did have some overflow issues, and we did have some other things to happen over the course of I think three years now.

And some of the property line is it's fine, but you know, it's in Jeopardy it's too saturated.

You know, you never know what happened.

We have really hard soil here that doesn't absorb water and change too much.

But it is a little scary when you have a house on here, you have a pool that if something happened, it would just deflate.

Another thing is the liner I would get three or three vinyl protectant or a reconditioning spray and I would spray all this and recondition.

It it'll save you it'll.

It really will save you long term.

Um, you don't really have to worry about a lot of vinyl degradation because the water cools at it.

But it's.

What you really got to worry is the top part, where there's no water touching it.

You do have to go in there with a vinyl protectant like 303 and I'm, actually looking at it need to do that.

Maybe today.

So something you need to think about see that thing down there that thing is what they give you to trying back.

Another thing does is push water through to redirect water into a little mesh bag.

And all that does is pick up large debris.

It does not pick up any of the fine sand or suet later, like what you see here.

And the bigger thing about that, there was no way to vacuum.

It like right now.

I have a vacuum thing in here, A real one for an actual pool with the Hayward skimmer attachment.

All the way back there that kind of fits right into the skimmer where we're talking about the skimmer, even without the skimmer, one I just had the waterfall setup, I still had inlets that actually sucked in water and were able to do this I would immediately just got this sand filter.

Another fantastic product I.

Think everybody should have for one of these pools is this Rocky rocker.

They send this to me it's, a standalone vacuum that needs no hose attachment sucks out, no water.

None of that mess doesn't have to run the filter.

It just stands alone runs and vacuums.

Everything else the cool thing about it though is it's battery, operated rechargeable, waterproof.

And you can completely just maintenance and clean the filter right at the top right there.

It has a waterproof button.

It just attaches to the net pole, just like how you would have to do it to the regular one anyway.

Ways you just stick that in there, you make sure it's working, you see the water actively pumping out the filter, and you just let it run down and you and you watch it do its thing it doesn't get the fine sand grits.

So a lot of that does actually go right through the filter.

But in terms of all the large debris, The Bugs, the sticks like that the nonsense the leaves all that stuff.

It gets all that very well, I'll leave a link in the description and pinned in the comment section for this product.

If you want to check it out attachment, let's, see what it got comes off of these clasps right here, hey, got all that debris legitimately in there.

That was a pretty pretty generous, suction, Port.

So that's, where it's coming in that's gonna suck up a fairly big piece.

I mean, I got all that.

This is the strainer here.

And that does capture a lot it's, not going to capture the ultra ultra fine stuff, but it still caught a lot of stuff.

So you can see that in there so it's got a two two filters.

So the pressure gauge is not working so there's, the filter this thing's broken.

He reads no pressure screws out like nothing kind of scary, how fast it screws up.

But this thing reads no pressure, which is not great got a brand new.

One wish I could get a de facto one, but what's better than nothing let's go and replace that it doesn't.

Screw in the back thing is too big.

So I got to go see if I can find another one all right, guys and gal.

So we got our filter running right now and it's running well, it's running grades, no problems, except for what what happened.

It started to work is that really happening.

So this gauge wasn't working for the longest time so I bought a new one at first I bought this one Digicel about a standard pressure, gauge clean filter, whatever would just be fine.

But this one is actually way too big.

If you look just in case, you have to replace it see the see the threads night and day started times and lengths.

So specifically I looked on eBay and found this Intex replacement pressure gauge so I'm gonna just keep this in my repertoire because this was not working for like a long time.

Just now starts to work.

Whatever okay, I was gonna do a whole video all right guys that wraps up the entire season for this year.

It Springs fastly, approaching I, don't know, when I'll have more time to do videos, but I do love this Channel and I do appreciate all of you.

My other channel soaks up most of my life, but we're trying to transition people in there to just kind of handle that so I could do more things on this channel and get other projects going.

So, thank you much for supporting me in this whole pool, Venture I hope that these videos help you out in return and stay tuned for a lot of the non-pool related content that we got coming out for this channel, stay tuned, big stuff foreign.