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kassidy62 ([personal profile] kassidy62) wrote2007-07-07 10:57 am
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Intex Easy Set pools - just sos you know, I hates them. First we bought one that looks like the bladder of a whale (which right there, we should have known would be nothing but trouble):

IT'S A PARTY! SEE?

Well, we bought soil and we leveled the area so the Great Whale Bladder could be balanced. But, we're incompetent, so the Great Whale Bladder sagged ridiculously. But the kids didn't care. So then we drained the Great Whale Bladder and tried leveling again, with more success. Again we fill the Cursed Bladder. But hey, there's a hole in it! And the Bladder From Hell drains all over our yard overnight (piss on us). And then we can't find the hole in the Great Fucking Bladder (we tried, oh how we tried). And we are Spectacular Moronovitches and so had thrown away the box and receipt, etc.

So.

We go buy another, NOT a Bladder:


only, it's smaller than that. But anyway. So it's looking good and it's no bladder, right? Came with a pool cover and filter, etc.

And then this morning it's down about 5 inches.

A reasoned response doesn't include taking a knife to it, right?

RIGHT???

[identity profile] marag.livejournal.com 2007-07-07 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Which is why my daughter will have to suffer with one of those little plastic things that you throw out every year. Because I refuse to deal. Absolutely refuse.

Uh...and yeah, you probably shouldn't take a knife to it. Um. Probably not. Although I can understand the temptation.

[identity profile] kassidy62.livejournal.com 2007-07-07 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank God you have the sense to not buy these things.

Are you sure about the knife bit? (looks longingly at knife and Bladder Jr.).

Oh, your icon! OH! I love love it! Your daughter is adorable:)

[identity profile] marag.livejournal.com 2007-07-07 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm absolutely sure about the knife. Good luck. Heh.

And thank you, I think she's pretty cute myself :D

[identity profile] librathree.livejournal.com 2007-07-08 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
We had one like this when I was a kid, and I'm assuming in the ensuing decades years since they've gotten better ... if it's hot and if you left the cover off, evaporation might account for the loss? Or if you guys used it, simple splashage, which in a smallis pool can account for a lot more than one would think?

(I'm just trying to be hopeful that it's not an actual leak)

[identity profile] kassidy62.livejournal.com 2007-07-09 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, your positive thoughts are appreciated:) I think it may have been the filtration lines, as the hubby tightened them and there's no alarming loss of water. I'm afraid I was getting, er, a *little* worked up!

[identity profile] librathree.livejournal.com 2007-07-09 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay! It's lovely to have one's own pool, isn't it? I don't blame you for getting worked up. Those things are hellish to set up. And they ain't cheap, either.

[identity profile] kassidy62.livejournal.com 2007-07-10 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
It is lovely. It's only 10' x 30", but it's perfect for my girls - they're so adorable and happy in it. You know when they're really expensive? When you have to buy two of them because you're a dork!:)

[identity profile] librathree.livejournal.com 2007-07-11 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
Expansive! You're expansive. "I'll take two - they're small!" ;-)

[identity profile] kassidy62.livejournal.com 2007-07-14 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah, yeah, expansive. THAT'S IT!!! ;)