Making an Outdoor Oasis Around Your Intex Pool
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- River Rock (Local Garden Center)
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- Landscaping Fabric (Home Depot)
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- Shelly Clemmonson Jul 7, 2018
Thank you for sharing this... i am beginning my pool installation today (a little late due to moving) and can't wait to implement some of your ideas. Great job!
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Louannon May 28, 2019
If your pool has metal sides, don't use limestone rocks. We bought our house many years ago, and the same idea was done with white, limestone rocks. The pool had about 2 feet of hideous water in it. We drained the pool, scrubbed the liner and refilled the pool. Overnight all of the water was gone. Little did we know that the limestone had corroded little holes in the metal sides, which had poked tiny pinholes in the liner. Cleaning the liner unclogged the holes, and the water drained out. Our yard was flooded! So, we either had to deal with a very large sand box, or get another pool. As our daughter was 13, and had already fallen in love with the idea of having a pool, we bought a new one. After just buying the house, it was an expense we didn't plan for....☹. Bottom line... be careful of the type of rock you use.
- Cindy Quinnon Jun 2, 2020
Same thing happened with our pool... we used small pebbles as shown but they made several tiny holes on bottom. We had to remove all those tiny rocks and purchase a new pool.
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Please tell me what kind of cover you have on your pool. How is it attached to the pool? It doesn't seem to go over the sides of the pool. How is it attached?
solar cover to put on at night to keep the water at a comfortable temperature
I would like to know how your husband did the PVC float hangers? We have an unground pool (Florida) and need to hang the floats. We have used bungee cords and hooks into our porch, but it takes its toll on the floats. We have many animal floats, without holes to hang them on. If we leave them on the ground, raccoons and neighborhood roaming cats puncture them with claws. They don't seem to bother them if they are hanging.I have a white PVC fence all around the yard.
pretty easy because its like those kid toys that you put things together with "elbows.. pcp pipes have those too.. u can watch a youtube video on how to do that
I would love to know how your husband built a pvc pipe holder. I’ve been looking to find a way to hold floaters in my pool area.