Bestway Hydrium 18' x 52" Above Ground Steel Wall Pool Set with 1,500 Gal. Sand Filter Pump, ChemConnect Dispenser, and Accessories, Woodgrain

Set up directions easy to follow. Solid foundation. Very happy not to have to take it down and put back up every season. Love the sand filter as well.

I almost never leave a review, but this is the biggest piece of junk I’ve ever encountered. For starters, the wall of the pool is 4 inches longer than the bottom ring it’s supposed to slide into. So once you get the ground level and the ring in place and the wall in place, you get the joy of removing the entire wall to space each and every one of the bottom rail feet a quarter of an inch further just so the wall will line up. But that’s far from the end of your woes. Once you get the wall together you will notice it’s oblong. I mean, no surprise since the base is smaller than the wall. But you figure it’ll all even out. News flash, it won’t. You start to put the liner in when you realize the liner isn’t tighter than the pool like it’s supposed to be, it’s actually larger than the pool wall. So you get to walk around the pool many times trying to even out the liner so there’s only an acceptable amount of wrinkles and curls in it. Then you put the top rails on. Spoiler alert, they don’t line up either. Then you pay the water company handsomely as you fill 7,000 gallons of water in your pool only to discover that as it was filling it shifted since the wall was oblong since the morons who designed it can’t read a take measure. So now you have an uneven, unlevel pool that is nowhere near where it should have been since it tried to self level while it was filling. But at least you have a pool full of water that doesn’t leak. Oh…. Hang on a sec. It does leak. Since 1,800$ wasn’t enough money for the cheap bastards that built it, they decided to only include 1 gasket for the skimmer, and the return port. So as you try to connect the hoses to the massively undersized pump, you notice water dripping down the side of your brand new pool. Can you fix it? Nope. You need a second gasket. You have to order that second gasket. So to keep from washing away all of the dirt that you spent over a thousand dollars to have graded and leveled for you, you get to drain your new pool and throw away all of that expensive water that you e paid for so you can get another fifty cent gasket to make this useless piece of sh!t actually hold water. I would t put another one of these up if it was free. The instructions are completely void of words, they are pictures only. So now I have a 1,200$ grading bill to get the land level, an 1,800$ pool that is worthless scrap metal, and a very sad family who have been saving for this for 4 years. Hopefully the SOB that designed this gets his just punishment.

Was Sides a little hard getting the metal sides put in the rails on the bottom but once we got that done, it went together. Great I love it. It’ll last for quite some time.

I love this pool and I’m happy with the way everything turned out. After having two Summer Waves pools over the course of 7 years, it was finally time to setup a hard sided pool that I can keep up year round.The sand filter/pump that came with the pool is too small in my opinion. I ended up purchasing a 3000 gph Intex pump/filter that does a great job.I also purchased a 25 guage, J-hook liner because I didn’t want to deal with the overlapping liner that came with the pool. In my opinion, the overlap liners are harder to install and the overlapping liner looks lawful on the outside of the pool.I was able to set the entire pool up by myself other than needing help bolting the 2 sides of the metal frame together. The entire build would have been easier with 2 people, but I managed to do it alone.There are a lot of good YouTube videos out there that show how to setup a pool. Also make sure your ground is level and that you put blocks down underneath the supports.I also purchased a good, sturdy ladder because the one that comes with it is flimsy.

Over many years and several different homes this is the sixth pool I have installed and this one is the best so far. I like the fact is was gray and not white as most are. The pool was well engineered and all the pieces fit as they were supposed to. The liner that can with the pool was a very good, thick, durable liner and it fit the pool like a glove. I usually have to upgrade liners before installing the pool - not this one.

This pool is the biggest piece of junk I have ever seen! The bottom ring is smaller than the pool wall, then nothing on the top ring lines up. Finally got it up and filled and guess what, it’s leaking. Spreetail that we bought it from was great and refunded enough money to buy a new liner. But when we went to drain the pool, the backside of the pool had started bulging out and one of the legs was bent. We contacted Spreetail again and they arranged to pick up the pool and replace it. We had to take the pool down, repackage it and strap it to a pallet and get it to the side of the road for pickup. Got the supposedly new pool, had same issue with bottom ring and top not matching up. Put in the liner, which is supposed to have a seam right down the middle, nope, there was the seam that gies all the way around the pool and then had 2 seams, one on each side. The pool immediately had water running from underneath and again one of the walls began to collapse! This was definitely not a new pool with a new liner. Spreetail said for us to contact Bestway, I did and have never heard from them. I told them I had had this pool less than 30 days and wanted a refund. Spreetail obliged, again we sent the pool back and received a rapid refund. Instructions are crap, video is worse. Stay away from Bestway! Our grandchildren are disappointed but luckily understand