Above Ground Pools
An above ground pool is just as much fun as an in-ground pool but at a fraction of the cost. Assembling a DIY above ground swimming pool is not hard and they are ready to fill with water in as little as 30 minutes. All our above ground pool kits come with all the equipment you need to keep your water clean. A filter and an electric pump to circulate the water and they all have ladders to get in and out of the water.. There are two types of above ground swimming pool – pools with hard sides and pools with soft sides.
Types of Above Ground Pool
Hard sided above ground pools fall in to two types – those with metal walls and those with wooden walls. The DIY wooden above ground pools are the top of the range. They are octagonal in shape and made from slats of wood that interlock with a wooden coping at the top. Fixed inside the wooden frame is a vinyl liner to keep the water in. The filter for these pools will be a sand filter and the pump will be of a high quality. Next in the range come the DIY metal sided pool kits. These will be circular or oval shaped pools. They have a metal frame which has fixed to it a one piece metal wall. On top of the wall sits a metal coping which makes the pool stable. Although cheaper than a wooden above ground pool kit a metal sided swimming pool kit is actually a bit more difficult to assemble. It will have a vinyl liner, sand filter and high quality pump just like the wooden pool.
Inflatable Above Ground Pools
Although they have been around for some time the inflatable above ground swimming pool has become hugely popular. The beauty of this type of swimming pool is that you just inflate the top ring and fill the pool liner with water. They have a paper cartridge filter and electric pump combined in to one unit that connects to the pool.
Materials
All the companies that make inflatable above ground pool kits also make Frame pool kits. With the frame pool the liner is held up by a tubular metal frame that fits together in a circle. The main advantage of a frame swimming pool over an inflatable swimming pool is that it is more sturdy and you get a the full diameter of the pool to swim in. For example a 15ft frame pool will be the full 15ft across, these may seem obvious but on some of the lower quality 15ft inflatable pools the actual water area is about 11ft