Make you work your ass off. Mom decided to get an inflatable pool for the yard - improving and upgrading the rental property - so we set out to install it this afternoon while Adam was at work.He missed out on all the fun.
As you can see above, Jayne had the easy job - supervisor/project manager.
Luckily, I had the airbed inflator, so we used it to inflate the upper ring. That made it go fairly fast. I can't imagine using a manual air pump (like a bicycle pump) to do it, which is what the introductory how-to DVD suggested.
The worst part was having to smooth out the bottom and try to get out as many wrinkles as possible. The box said READY FOR WATER IN 15 MINUTES. Heh. Maybe if you've done it a half-million times before.By the time we were ready to stop and just watch it fill, two hours had passed. Those of you who have done this before - where did we go wrong?!
At least when I look at these two photos, I can see a definite difference in the "Before smoothing" and "After smoothing."
The water is still running. We'll be checking on it tonight, turning it off before bed, and starting up again tomorrow.Hopefully the next post you'll see will have Jill relaxing on a floaty in the pool.
2 comments:
Yippee! I can't wait to come test out the waters :)
P.S. If I had been there, I totally would have been chilling with Jayne. That looks like A LOT of work! ;)
In the top pic, it looks like your Dad is pointing out the wrinkles!! Hope it's filled and full. They are a lot of fun, but my kids have just about outgrown the pools (yes, plural) we've bought so it's off to the Elks pool this year!
kim
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