How to Frame Around an In-Ground Pool
- 1). Measure the pool's dimensions and place stakes in the ground where it is going to be dug. Place the stakes 3 feet outside of the pool's dimensions to make room for the walls and the filter system's piping. Excavate the site by digging with a backhoe or shovel.
- 2). Align the holes of the metal track's welded extensions with the holes in the channel tracks. Assemble the bottom channels by placing one 9/16-inch washer on a 3/8-inch bolt and pushing it through the bottom of the track. Tighten with an open-end wrench.
- 3). Place assembled tracks on the pool's bottom. Measure diagonally from corner to corner of the pool's central area. Both measurements should be equal.
- 4). Sweep or wet-dry vac to remove any dirt or debris from the channel's track.
- 5). Insert the 45-degree corner connector channels into the bottom tracks at the pool's corners. There are two bottom tracks. Set a straight wall panel into the bottom channel track that faces the pool's interior and slide the panel into the corner's connector track. Repeat for the pool's other corners.
- 6). Slide the straight panel connector onto the straight panel already installed in a corner connector. Insert a straight wall panel. Continue adding straight wall panels and straight connectors until all of the wall panels have been installed.
- 7). Slide outside spline into the compression seam of the radius panels, then the inside spline. For reverse radius to radius panel compression seams, slide in a spline and then insert the extended spline.
- 8). Place the pool exterior's metal back brace at the start of the channel of the straight wall sections. Set A-frames into the seam of each joint at the beginning, middle and end of each channel length.
- 9). Slide the wall clips over the radius wall panels and space them evenly across its top. Secure them in place with tek screws.
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Locate the wall anchors near each compression seam and radius panel middle. Drill two 7/16-inch holes on each side of the compression seam through the wall anchor's holes. Place a bolt through the hole, positioned so the head faces the pool's interior, and screw a nut onto it. - 11
Drive rebar through the wall anchor's bottom hole with a mallet. Repeat this step for the remaining wall anchors.
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