Day 1096 Two pools Pete

10th August 2020

Kelli was off early to pick up her new pool, I had a couple of things to work on in the garage, which included a lot of scraping.

When she returned, we did a lot more preparation of the ground to make sure it was level for the different shaped pool.

We used a lot of the sand from the sandbags to fill the uneven surface before moving it into shape.

The pool was still in its original packaging as the previous owner had never used it.

We lifted it into place and proceeded to inflate the top ring which is the only part that need air, the rest of the pool is shaped by the water within it.

Now was the long process of filling it.

As the water gushed in I noticed a pool of water near the emptying plug, thinking it was not fully tightened, I checked the plug. There was nothing wrong with that. I then noticed beads of water coming from a small hole near a seam. The bloody thing had a leak!!!

I stopped the filling and showed Kelli the problem. She was gutted, this was supposed to be a step up in pool leagues tables, and now we were no better off than we were with the old one.

There were repair patches in the box, but I wanted to see if there was a better method.

We were now in a position of having a half full pool that was leaking and no convincing way of fixing it.

Kelli contacted the seller, but what would they do? The product was still sealed in the box, so there was no tampering. She contacted the manufacturer, but of course with no receipt they weren’t interested, so we were on our own.

I spent time watching YouTube videos of people who have repaired pools with out draining them, but our leak was on the underside seam, so draining it was inevitable.

Fortunately we had the old pool to drain the water into, saving us wasting it.

Then the thunderstorm started, adding more water to what we had to pump, it looked like the heavens were laughing at us.