you might want to ask this at troublefreepools.com. I believe that there are more people there with above ground pools.

No additional post you must be finished! Just in case your not, the liner tips I promised. Someone else may be putting up an AG pool and use them. First you will need a NEW liner. I have seen ppl move pools and try and use the old one. It didn't work. They get brittle in no time, and lining up the skimmer and return holes would be really hard. If you can afford to get some S-clip and hang a beaded liner. They are much easier and changing them later on is easier too. Put the liner in the pool, don't drag it accross the wall. At this point your wall is in and bolted up, and your uprights are secured to the bottom plates only. A small piece of duct tape can be used to hold them to the wall, so they don't flop around. They shouldn't but if it's windy or you have to stop for the night it's a good idea. Ok, unfold the liner and start pulling it over the wall. About two feet at first, this part you kinda have to eyeball. This where a beaded liner is nice, you just start putting the liner in the bead. Back to overlap liner. Again as many family friends and neighbors is good here. You will hold the part of the liner drapped over the wall, with coping strips. They are about 2 ft long and available at your local AG pool dealer. Get new ones, the old ones are prob cracked a brittle. Once the liner is over the wall all the way around, try and get it as even as possible. If you chose a liner with a print bottom, the print should be at the base of the pool wall. A note here about the bottom. It has been a while since I installed a AG. Order brick sand, or mortar sand from a local dealer. If they can get it inside the pool area that is GREAT! If not, it has to be hand moved via wheel barrow, unless you still have that bobcat around. Bottom should be about 2" deep,and we always built up a cove around the bottom track. Cove is sand at a 45 deg angle. Damp sand with garden hose, it trowels easier. If you have a shop vac, you can put a hose through the skimmer, where the lid goes, behind the liner. Duct tape around the hose to seal it off and turn on the shop vac. This pulls air from behind the liner. It takes a while, but if you get good suction you can get your wrinkles out of the liner before you start water. Once you start water you must stay with the pool until water is about 4" up the wall. Let slack out by pulling up on the coping strip where the stress is. The liner will slip down until the stress is relieved, put the coping strip back on. Go around the pool relieving stress on each coping strip untill the liner stays in place and no longer pulls on the wall. The water will be up on the wall by now. If there are any wrinkles you can work them out with a mop or broom. If you have to get inside the pool, make sure your barefoot. You can start topping off the pool when the water is up the wall. Don't cut in your skimmer and return until water is halfway up or better. Some people don't cut them in until water is up to the skimmer. We had other pools to get to so we did. You may wish to wait. Hope this helps, I have read the instructions that come with these pools and had a good laugh. If you can get past the broken english, many are made overseas, they give the impression one man, can put these up in one day, by himself. I'd like to see that. There are probably web pages now that show pictures, that would help. But I had fun writing this and seeing how much I remembered. Good luck again, and post some pics when your done. Colt

I found a Sharkline Matrix pool, 54" x 33 x 18' for $3K shipped. This is Sharklines top of the line pool, so looking at this one. Any input at all?? Here is the link. http://www.poolsupplyworld.com/Sharkline-Matrix-18-x-33-x-54-Oval-Above-Ground-Swimming-Pool/PMATYM183354RRRRRS.htm Or this one http://www.familyleisure.com/Above-Ground-Swimming-Pools/Diamond-Star-18x33x54

Chlorine only smells if you have a problem in your pool (algae bloom or whatever). My pool has only smelled like chlorine when I had it flood and had to kill a bunch of organic in it. We never smell like chlorine when we get out of it, etc. UV is a supplemental system, not a primary system from everything I can read on it, and for outdoor pools I can't find anyone (who doesn't sell them) that seems all that hip on them. Saltwater pools DO have chlorine in them, they generate their own. Common wisdom is that they can be harder on stone, but I don't know anything about wood and salt. I would strongly suggest that you get a good test kit and read up on how to test your own chemicals. I only go to the pool store to buy parts. It will seem like it is expensive, but it will save you money in the long run.