INTEX Ultra XTR 24 ft x 52 in Above Ground Pool Set, Round Swimming Pool with Steel Frame, 2100 GPH Sand Filter Pump, Ladder, Cover, & Ground Cloth

Update 05/27/2022: This pool has now been in operation for a couple seasons, and it's still doing GREAT. I had to replace the plates in the chlorinator, and refill the sand in the filter once, and that's it for the heavy maintenance. The water is still crystal clear, the FAFCO heating pad is still kickin, and my kids are still loving the pool. Still absolutely no regrets with this purchase. I was leary at first. Above ground pools are something the Uncle Eddie has in Xmas vacation, that you could imagine him jumping off his RV into. But I live in the South West, where the sun doesn't care if your pool is below above or levitating - the heat spares no one. Instead of investing $80k or more in a fancy pants pool, I spent a fraction of that on a 24' diameter Intex pool and it has been the best money I've spent that I can remember. Super easy to setup - I did it with one person. I already had a flat large area to place it, so all the real hard work was done. Filled it up (took about $350 in water), and then realized that it was going to need two more things to be perfect. I picked up a Chlorinator - also made by Intex - so I wouldn't have to deal with chemicals. I mixed in the salt as directed, and it's been producing chlorine ever since (one and a half seasons later). You can't tell there's salt in the water, and you can't tell there's chlorine either - but my test kits always put it in the proper range (2-3ppm). The second item was a heating mat. I setup the pool at the end of the season, so the sun was already losing some of it's potency here. But at the start of this season, I REALLY noticed it. I have the 4' x 20' heating mat you can get here on Amazon, and it works great. Since the sun started cooking the southwest, my pool has been a steady 80-85 degrees all day long. Maintenance is extremely low. I added a skimmer (the one where you have to actually cut the liner to put in - a littte nerve wracking BUT VERY worth it!!!) and it keeps the surface spotless. I've gone through a couple of pool vacuums (stay away from the Intex one!) and I've settled on a rechargeable one that you just drop in the pool. It takes care of all the big and medium debris that lands at the bottom, but the fine debris has been more of a challenge. A brush with a suction port that ties into my skimmer has solved that problem - I put the pump into bypass and just let it go into the planter. Really the only thing that takes a bit of attention is maintaining the pH level. I find I'm constantly adding the pH lowering chemicals to keep it around 7.6 - 7.8. Not difficult, I just need to not forget to do it. Overall, I probably spent about 3k on everything (pool, pump, chlorinator, heating pad, light, vacuum - x2, did I mention not to get the Intext one? - skimmer, misc hoses and stuff)... and it's been worth every cent. My kids and I absolutely love it, and it's made living in a hot climate so much more tolerable.

This is our 3rd Intex pool. Started with the “bubble”, then had 15’ metal frame, now this 26’ ultra frame. This is a HUGE pool! The box that it came in was delivered by freight truck (400+lbs). Trucking company dropped it at the end of our driveway, thank goodness we have a tractor so we were able to move it, but something to keep in mind. We were already familiar with setup from our other pool so it was fairly straightforward. The most difficult part of assembly was getting the final piece of top rail locked in. Please do not believe the listing when it says “ready in hour”. It will take you days unless you have a crew, and even then at least a day before you even start adding water. My husband and I did it ourselves. I’m going to give you some tips to help with installation, but the number one tip is find the You Tube video from Pawpaws Place. It’s about an hour long and he takes you from beginning to end. Follow every step and you will be good! Helpful hints: 1. Level, level, level. Make sure your site is almost perfectly level. Any deviation will skew how the water sits in the pool. You have about 1” that you can be off. Any more and it won’t be good. 2. Get liner as wrinkle free as you can before you put on legs, this will make it easier for you later when you start adding water to get the rest of the wrinkles out. 3. If you’re planning to leave up year round, put something under each leg. Pawpaw recommends 12x12x1” blocks, but to be honest, that’s way more digging than we wanted to do. I ended up going to a metal fab shop and have them make 8x8x1/4” plates (26). I think they’ll hold well. 4. This does not come with a backwash hose. Purchased backwash hose and clamp from Lowe’s and we had to buy some PVC fittings to make it work. 5. They don’t come with a skimmer basket anymore. Highly recommend purchasing one to get the surface crud. 6. The supplied ground cloth is pretty thin. We had some geo textile cloth that we put under the ground cloth for added protection. 7. Use a level and keep checking legs both side to side and front to back as the water goes in. This is where the ground leveling comes into play. If your ground is not level, liner with push out on some legs, and cause others to move inward. Fill slowly and check, check, and recheck. We are on a well so I had to go slow with water -55 minutes twice a day. I checked leg level before each addition. Got pool filled to about 4,000 gal then had another 6,200 trucked in. We went around and around with level as water was going in and made adjustments. They will reach a point where you cannot move them anymore . All in all, I think it’s worth the time and money. Pool company wanted over $10,000 for metal walled pool and installation. I just couldn’t fork over that much. With pool, water, and misc. things, I’d guess we have about $2500 in it. The seller was great, I had a couple of questions and they responded immediately. Would definitely recommend if you don’t mind some hard work. Watch the video by Pawpaws Place!

Pool much bigger than anticipated, we really like the sand filter that comes with it, works well and the gauge is fantastic for letting you know what you need to do. Ground cover is very thin but thankful it was included. We did have an issue with the liner completely tearing however Amazon was fantastic about shipping us a new pool. Ladder is sturdy, take forever to fill up with a hose. Overall we’re happy with our purchase. We’ve owned several of these pools and they hold up for years in our crummy NY weather.

This is a good pool for the money. Even with small leak. Don't be dissuaded because of the small leak. Just be ready and check as filling for signs of leakage. Overall was is great. Pros: Easy Set up, size, delivery, good pump and filter. Cons: Had a small leak on seam, trying to contact manufacturer or getting support is difficult, no suction side vacuum port, last top rail is a pain, didn't know I needed filter sand until afterwards. Setup: make sure you level the area good. I spent hours leveling because of size and was still off about 2" on one side. I left it because it wasn't bulging. Make sure to have two bags of pool sand filter ready prior to setup or go get while pool is filling. Make sure you start top rail at on point and work around in circular direction clockwise/ counterclockwise do not attach legs until top is complete . Last rail is a pain in the butt even while following the recommendation in directions. Just be patient. I caught the drip leak (video) early while filling and fortunately it was were I could get to it and put pvc glue on seam that sealed the leak. Returning item liked this would be a nightmare after hours of assembly just to disassemble. I would think a credit should be given for leak and couldn't get hold of anyone. Just a return but couldn't get support. Returning was out of the question. Maintenance: I have a pool cleaning service and had all chemicals on hand to treat pool. This made bringing pool chemistry easy for me. I would recommend keeping calcium between 160 to 200. Because you don't want vinyl to harden too much. I have well water low calcium. Mine is at 180. I have a high iron content in my well water. The pump and sand filter did great filtering it and I had to backwash a couple times. However, I don't like that it doesn't come with any kind of suction access for a hose vacuum to get sediment (picture 2) off the bottom. I had to order a battery cordless vacuum to hopefully get sediment off bottom. I cannot even net it with my microfiber net. These pools need and adapter to be able to hook a standard vacuum hose in order to vacuum using pump and filter. The pump and filter are surprisingly good, so far. I was impressed that it wasn't some cheesey pump and filter. It can be set time come on and run for selected number of hours up to 12 hours a day. Has internal clock to run at same time each day. Or can be set to run continuously. I'm excited to use this summer and this 26' is huge. I can swim short laps in it by myself, and is large enough to have several people in it. My family and friends will soon be invited for a BBQ. Make sure that you know the desired size for your area. I have a big yard so this was perfect. Even though a lot bigger than I thought and surprised by size and depth.

Great pool!! The delivery guy was gray to work with to get it to me!!! Highly recommend!!!

Finally got it put up. Pump works great. All parts were there and not bent and no holes in liner. It says 60 min put up time but its more like 90 mins maybe longer. Its not hard to put up wlyou will need at least 2 or more people. So far everything is awesome.

on 3/ 22.21 my son and I surprised my daughter in law with a pool buying the Intex 26329EH 18x 52 " pool, it arrived and it was discovered it was torn , so we went thru the whole return thing, which was a fiasco, Intex would never reply to messages! and amazon said they would send out a new one , and we would repackage the old one up and it would be picked up, please keep in mind if you will, my son is handicapped, and had to have friends help him set up the pool and drain and take it back down, I am in Wy he is in AZ AND WE used my prime acct to buy this, he paid for it . so we get a new pool we were concerned because we could not see the tear till it was set up again ,, but we we were assured by amazon it would have a warranty and if there were any problems to reach out to them if we had a problem on 4/14 /21 the new pool was ordered and shipped it arrived and was set up , it looked fine, there was what looked like a flaw in the vinyl but it did not appear to be a problem, so we waited to have this huge box picked up ( the old Pool) some how it fell threw the cracks and after saying they were going to charge us for the second pool someone figured out it was there fault and the old pool was picked up in Sept!!! so now we come to Aug 22 the kids have been here in Wy for over a month they return home and after looking they realize the pool is tearing again , its only used for his exercises and he floating no kids... this pool had all the correct leveling and everything done before setting it up it is a design flaw in this pool there is still warranty, but Amazon says no were not covering it .. Intex has to cover it how convienient that Intex does not reply to any kind of messaging or calls so my kids who are on a limited income are now with out a pool .. I am totally Disgusted he spoke with so many people today at Amazon the lady who tried to help was great the rest could of cared less

We LOVE this pool. We bought the round 18' x 52" ultra frame pool. It came with a cover, pump, ladder, ground cover and the pool. We bought it in April when there was a deal of the day and Intex pools were 25% off! Plus, we used our Prime card so we got 5% back! I definitely recommend waiting for the price to fall before just buying it because this product has fluctuated in price quite a bit since I started watching it a year ago! Okay now for the details: 1. Pool - super sturdy, heavy liner. You'll definitely need 2 people to move it and set it up. The frame itself is sturdy, but very easy to set up! We were actually impressed with how smoothly the setup process went. It was the easiest part of the whole process. 2. Ladder - slightly narrow and very light. However, after doing some research I found the width of this is fairly common. We plan to upgrade to a safer, heavy duty ladder next year. 3. Pump - took about 30 min to assemble, but is very easy and directions are detailed. It's very easy to use and we love the timer function so we can set it up to turn on/off by itself each day! The pool is super clear too! 4. Cover - this is my biggest complaint about the product. The cover seems to be of good quality, but it will not stay on the pool. It comes with a drawstring type system to hold it on, but even with the slightest wind it blows off. We can't get it tight enough. However, it's not that big of deal because the pool heats up rather quickly in the sun. 5. Ground cover - nice size and it added peace of mind as we set up the liner. *Additional advice - make sure to properly prepare for your pool. We measured, cleared sod, leveled the ground, ran the proper electrical line, and researched the best way to maintain clean water. The research and preparation took much longer than the actual assembling of the pool! I highly recommend this product for the money!

Hi, I really like the pool and everything I buy with it that was working really good. Everybody enjoyed the pool. It's a perfect pool of perfect size and it's big but it's nice then. It's a really really good pool and I told everybody if you want a good pool by that side because it's good

The only good thing about the Intex is the actual pool liner and rim and leg system being closed and extremely sturdy. I’ve had several Intex and the pumps are always at least two grades less than what’s adequate to filter your pool whether it be sand or filter. Ladder is garbage. Otherwise the best soft shelled pool out there on the market.

Easy to setup. Leveling is the hardest part. The absolute best thing about this pool is how it heats up and retains the heat. My previous 16ft pool would very rarley get to 80 and would normally sit at 75. This pool rarely goes below 80 and sits at 85 most of the time.

The pool pump went after 1 season. Would not turn on this year put a customer service Inquiry in as it says warranty for 2 years and because we do not have the proof of delivery date 🙄 as my emails were deleted due to new phone Intex will not cover new pool pump. And cannot find a proof of Delivery order history through Amazon which is toTotally disapppinting! Very vwry pissed off and disgusted as we sent original receipt of purchase of pool through Amazon. This is why it doesn't pay to order things online apparently. Very Very unhappy customer to say the least!!! 😤😡😡

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