Thanks!
The wind turbines are over by Van Wert and go west to the state line and north up to Paulding. I'm about 12 miles east of where they start.

The best part of selling our house and moving to the lake??? No more pool! Loved it for the first summer...until the leaves started falling. Pulling frogs out every day wasn’t so bad unless one (or more) got stuck in the skimmer and spun around until they puked their innards and died. Or pulling snakes out that got part way sucked into the floor grate. Or treating the green slime that was waiting each spring when the cover came off. Or backwashing the filter when the media would get gummed up. Or breathing in chlorine when refilling the dispenser. Or paying the bills to heat the thing even when no one had any interest in using it. Or dropping $200 at the pool store for buckets of powder to throw down the drain. And, and, and...

And that was a proper in-ground setup. My advice? Buy Mrs WD a nice sports car...it will be cheaper, more fun and you can sell it when she gets bored. A pool? Not so much.

Good riddance:

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that gets me too. Got pretty woozy the the other day.

My very inexpensive advice, free: Get an exercise pool: https://www.swimex.com/inside-swimex/swimex-vs-the-competition/

I am doing the research now for an install in a year or so...dual use is good.

"Good riddance" is the bête noire of every pool owner.

Above ground pool has it's advantages. You don't usually need a separate fence. And when you get tired of it...I did after 10 years.. you can easily remove it. If you have an in ground you still have to open and close it every year or it will deteriorate.

Don't buy a cheap ABG pool. Huge mistake. Unless you plan on having it for just a few years. By resin pool, generally they mean the uprights and the top shelf. That's it. The basic pool is still steel.

I purchased a cheap above ground pool about 10 years ago, noticed some strange rust spots in the middle of the side walls. These developed because of small leaks in the liner.

So, I ripped out the pool and replaced it with an all Aluminum AG pool. My situation is a little unique in that the slope of my yard requires the pool to be partially in ground. In my situation the install is / was more expensive than the pool. So it makes sense to buy a better pool. The Aluminum pool is very high end in the world of above ground at around 7K without any equipment.

We bought a cheap Intex 20'x4' an put it on a sand base. Has been up several years and stays up all winter. We do put a pillow in the water after it is drained below the pump ports and the pump/sand filter comes in for the winter. We also bought a proper pump and sand filter for it instead of the small 1/4 horse unit with paper cartridges.

When this one wears out we are getting a better one from a company that does the hard side/resin pools.

Make sure you have a good pump so you can clean it properly. You can use liquid chlorine instead of the tablets which makes care easy.

Sid turned me on to troublefreepools.com forums and pool school.

WOW!! i would be a much better archer if i had a yard like that!!

We've got one of the 18' blow up ones too. We take it down every year. Kind of a pain but as mentioned it sure is nice to have on a hot humid day. Would be a lot nicer if we had more than a week of summer.:D
It has been a hot year so far so have used it a lot this year.
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I feel like pools are like boats. best to just make friends with someone who owns one.

Ha...I’ll take boats over a pool any time.

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Qualifier...our pool was in a thickly wooded yard. Was nice for privacy but would have probably been easier to maintain in less of a jungle environment. Or better yet, in an enclosure.

An Above ground pool is a smart move. You can take down an above ground pool when everyone stops using it.
I let wifey talk me into a regular pool and I'll be paying for it for the rest of my life.
I'll never get that money back and i need it to make the pile a little higher ;)

How does the Jetski ramp work? What is it?

Pretty simple...it floats, has rollers on it and you ride the ski up onto it.

I've had both boats, and pools, and I will pick the pool every time. Boat ownership includes registration, trailer license, insurance, gas/oil/repairs, tow vehicle gas/oil/repairs, and lots of time spent traveling to get to a spot you can use the boat (1 hour away in any direction for me). I love national holidays in my pool with friends, but hated them on the water dealing with drunk douchbags, and all of their loud friends.

I will always have a pool for cooling off in the Summer, and a bit of excersise....the only boat I would consider is a 14' deep V with a 9.9, and electric trolling motor for quiet local fishing trips within 5 miles.

Sounds like a deal on the used pool parts.

I've had a 4' above ground pool for about 25 years. I built it so about 2' is in the ground and put a cedar deck all the way around it. The back two sides are level with the top of the pool for anyone wanting to lay in the sun.

The only thing bad I can say about it is every kid in the neibourhood was friends with my boys all summer long. :)

When I first got it I figured the sun will warm it. Wrong. So I put a coil of 400" 1" black pipe on the garage roof. It did a good job as long as I remembered to turn the loop off at night or it would cool the pool off overnight. The next year I put a gas heater in to the tune of $2500. It was well worth the warmth factor. :)

I have a couple 100' rolls of 1" black pipe, and have been meaning to get them coiled up. My pool is very close to our shipping container Conex that we use for storing horse hay. On a 90 Summer day like today, you can't walk across the roof of that Conex it's so hot, so I think I could cycle a pump on/off in 15 minute intervals from 10:00am to 6:00 pm to get the most heat on sunny, cooler days.

I tied my coils into the system by the use of a shutoff valve. In stead of the water returning to the pool it was directed up onto the roof then back in the system into the pool. Because of the location and trees the pool never got direct sunlight till late afternoon. :)

I don't have any problem with our pool getting warm. I like the water to be in the low to mid 80's and with the pool in full sunlight it is normally in that range. I'd like to do a loop heater on my shop roof for this time of year when the mornings are a bit cool and there's heat loss. It would be nice to extend the season by a month or so just using a solar cover and loop heater.

That's what I will be trying to do...make it to October 1st rather than Labor Day, and open the pool in mid May. I did get a free CL Jacuzzi 16" sand filtration system with a Hayward 1.5 HP pump to replace the junk I have, so I can run the coil heater at a slow rate with that using an elbow, and ball cock valve.