Any ideas?? OT

We have an above ground pool that has not been the best investment. After only four and a half years it"s rusted out and starting to fall apart. The "warranty" is not worth the paper it"s written on so have decided to just suck it up and replace it. The problem is what the heck do I do with 10,000gal of salty pool water while I rip out the old one and build the new? Have been trying to find a used rainwater tank so far no luck. So it"s brainstorming time guys. Any ideas?

This is like toyota... You asked for it, you got it...

Build the new one next to the old one, transfer the water, tear out the old one, then take advantake of the bare/compacted spot to make a beer drinking patio so you won't have to stumble too far to go swimming....

That makes sense.
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You are starting to think like a German!

I guess it would somewhat depend on location but around here it would cost about $50 plus fuel to replace the water if you can hual your own. About $375 to have it hualed in ($75 for 2000 gallons). Not going to get much of a transfer tank for that. I'd pump it out to the ditch....

Oh my, now I have to wipe the keyboard off. That was funny. And I'm from New Ulm, so you can guess my ancestory.

--->Paul

pile sand around it... almost to the top last for another 10 years.

4 years? You got some good mileage out of that one... I've never seen one go past two years... And, growing up, our family went through about 10 of them... 15' x 4'

Why is the water salty? Or do you just mean the chemicals that keep the PH and chlorine levels correct?

When our kids were school age we had an above ground pool. The kids really enjoyed it until they got driver"s licenses, and then it was rarely used. So when the filter assembly broke and I found that no parts were available for it, I tore down the pool, dumping the water on my lawn. I gave the dismantled pool to my cousin, who had younger kids.

Our pool was at least 10 years old, and it was given to me by a neighbor who was getting divorced and had to get it away from her rented house. It was a Doughboy, with a metal framework and metal wall, and a vinyl liner. The metal parts of the pool reminded me of a huge tuna fish can with both top and bottom lids removed. When I took it apart, I found very little rust and no rust on the framework or wall metal. That impressed me since the pool sat outside in the sun and weather all those years without any particular care for the finish.

Maybe you should get a higher quality pool as your replacement, and it might last longer. And I wonder about the salt...could that have something to do with the corrosion problem?

If your water has much salt or other chemicals in it, it might be useful to kill some weeds, or to keep weeds from growing in gravel. But if it is just normal pool water, with a little chlorine in it, I would just use it to do normal watering, possibly after letting the chlorine level get pretty low. My pool water didn"t seem to hurt my lawn at all.

Or like one poster suggested, set up your new pool near the old one and transfer the old water to the new pool. I guess it would depend on how expensive water in your area is, and how hard you want to work. Good luck with your new pool!

Salt water is a lot cheaper than chlorine.

i siphoned mine out with a garden hose right across the yard didnt even faze the grass