Opening up an above ground pool is not that difficult, even for someone like me who is not just lazy iffen you gots a riding mower, I can mow the hell out of your yard.but technically incompetent... and, the last thing you want me to do is repair something either inside or outside the house. However,
Last fall, the first task was to backwash and rinse the poop storage tank to clean out the sand for the winter. Once this was accomplished, we drained the water out of our above ground pool down to below the pipes, the put in plugs so that water would not enter the pipes and possibly freeze, cracking the pipes. We took cap off the bottom of the pump tank and let the water completely drain out as part of our closing the pool.
Once that was done, we covered the surface of the pool with a tarp and put bricks on top of the tarp every 18 inches to hold it securely to the deck. Not trusting the bricks to hold, we tied the tarp to the rails of the deck using nylon rope and eight strategic points around the circumference of the pool.
OPENING OUR ABOVE GROUND POOL:
- Remove all the water off the tarp covering the pool
- Remove the bricks and nylon ropes
- Roll back the tarp until completely free of the pool
- Remove the two plugs preventing water from getting into the pipes
- Return the cap to the pump tank
- Fill the pool back up with water
- Start the pump
- Clean the pool
