June 7, 2009
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swimming pool nasties
So my mom and dad had a HUGE sofpool. One of those that’s heavy duty plastic that’s supposed to last a bazillion years. My mom left it when they moved due to hating maintaining it for my dad to use. She’s NEVER been in it.
My dad used it for awhile after the seperation, but he didn’t maintain it and it got nastier and nastier. HE offered to sale it to us for an unbeatable price three months ago.
He delivered it to us yesterday–which had its own set of dramas not from my dad, from other corners–while we were at my sisters grad. He couldn’t deliver it while we were here due to the restraining order, so that’s why it worked that way.
Anyhow this afternoon was dedicated to cleaning it, and attempting to set it up.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
No instruction manual (dad lost it) didn’t help much.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Nasty, stinky, nasty, dirty.
So Rob cleaned and cleaned it. And it still has some work that we’ll do with bleach after the water is in it. We couldn’t clean any more due to not being able to get in the walls.
And then the fun part began.
Getting the wretched, nasty, stupid, terrible, awful, dumb, dumb, dumb rotten son of a skunk flat on the bottom.
So much for my back–not that I had a good one to begin with.
We tried many, many, many approaches to get it to move flat.
And finally we mastered one. Rob and Zeria lifted, and I pushed from the inside. And eventually we got it relatively smooth.
Where was our heavy lifter Sam? Finally having his birthday friend over. We asked him to help a couple times, but his focus was less then stellar, and yeah we sent him away. LOL
So no pictures yet as right now all it looks like is a slightly dirty piece of pool blue plastic.
Unless you wanted to see our mud-infested bodies from lifting, pullilng, dragging, and falling on the slime infested thing.
My kids will have a blast in it summer. But I have to say the set up was not enjoyable.
On a rather insane note. We umm immigrated several toads from my dads house that were in the pool.
Comments (4)
Try going online for a PDF file for setting up maintence.. etc. I bet you can get one??
@KarlaandSuperMedic - its the first plac I looked and theres very little info available
our pool is soft sided and we learned the hard way that the most important thing is to have the ground LEVEL. Otherwise your pool will go “walking”. It also helps to flatten (get the wrinkles out of) the base with a couple of inches of water in the bottom. When you get it pulled out the water helps it stay a bit more.
@Bluetoban - yeah we’ve discovered the level thing. Due to it not being level it all went to one side and ran over the walls rather then filling up the walls.
So we drained the wretched thing this morning, and hauled a bunch of sand for the low end, and then started digging on the high end. We have it about 75% level now….and I’m TIRED. So the other 25 will have to wait for tomorrow. The good news is we’ve finally learned out how to get the wrinkles out without killing us, and I discovered messing with it with gloves really really saves my fingers. Due to the sand it was on before its gritty on the bottom, and it was like yanking sandpaper around which turned my fingers into hamburger meat. We’ve learned lots. And some day we *might* have a pool to swim in. *snort*