Unable to get our Above Ground Pool Installed

by Bridgette
(Sherman, TX)

Hello, we have been trying to get our above ground pool installed all summer. Everything is up and ground is level but the wall overlapped, so we got the wall together, but now the bottom and top rails have gaps.

Please any suggestions are welcomed. Thanks in advance.



Hi Bridgette. Proper gaping of the bottom rails can be one of the trickiest parts of pool building. For one, they are never the same. And secondly, it must be done correctly.

By correctly I mean your goal is to have every bottom connector set with the same rail gap. And to have your pool completely round.

This page shows a foot plate and explains rail gap.

Diamond Star Pool Installation

On many occasions this means installing the wall just to see how much overlap you have, or how shy you are of making a connection. You then take the entire wall out and re-gap your bottom rails and make the entire pool round again. The wall then gets re-installed and hopefully will be very close to lining up. If it's within an inch you can back it out for about five rails or so and re-gap that section.

Having bottom rail gaps that are not even makes installing the top rails twice as hard as it needs to be. Top rails have pre-punched holes in them and they need to be equally spaced. That means for the uprights to be straight up and down, the bottom rail gaps need to all be the same.