Wall On Pool Not Fitting

by Steve
(Westfield , NC)

My 24 ft. round metal wall pool will connect the top bolt on the wall seam, but the bottom is about an inch and a half off.

What are your suggestions? We've gone around and tried to adjust the foot plates, to no avail.




Hi Steve. My suggestion will not be the easiest way to go, but the best in the long run. I would take the wall completely out of the track and close up each rail gap by an eight to a quarter of an inch.

It is difficult to adjust footplates with the wall in the track. Kicking, pulling and bumping on the wall and rails will usually result in a pool that is not round or level.

Taking the wall out of the tack allows you to set each gap the same. This is critical later on when you go to install your top rails. It is also critical that your pool stays round. After re-gaping the rails it's a good idea to check it for round and level. These are the keys to a good installation.



Only a couple of times have I ever seen a pool where the rail gaps could not be closed in enough to make the wall fit. Asahi had a fifteen foot model one year that was like that. Where most of their pools required about a quarter inch gap between rails this model needed them to be tight against one another. And the wall still would not fit, so every one of them had customized. It amounted to snipping about a half inch off one of the bottom rails and one of the retaining rods. That's the only time I ever remember that happening, in 40 years of installing pools.