Bestway Hydrium Galvanized Steel Wall Above Ground Pool Set 20' x 12' x 48" | Semi-Permanent, Year-Round Oval Swimming Pool | Includes Sand Filter, Skimmer, Ladder, Ground Cloth, Cover

My pool is the 52" round. Folks giving the PRODUCT a poor review because the instructions are poor just don't make sense. I almost didn't buy this because of the 3.7 stars, but once you read through the reviews you realize folks aren't complaining about the QUALITY of the pool.The barcode on the front of the instruction manual takes you to a video or search for Round Hydrium Steel Wall Above Ground Pool Setup video. That video certainly over-simplifies, but it shows you one of every step, You just have to repeat it for every stanchion etc. A friend and I took right at 6 hours to have it all put together and filling. Got another hour or two of cutting the skimmer and return hole and hooking up the pump/filter after filling, but the pool is up, looks good and is super sturdy. Disclaimer is that we have installed a pool before and from the day I ordered this, we began preparing/leveling the ground.Things to note: I am not a professional, I'm a Dad/Grandad trying to keep the grandkids happy.- Ground/Site prep is SUPER important! Spend some time at it!- Someone mentioned in a poor review that the skimmer and return hole are not precut. So you could not POSSIBLY line up a precut hole. Even if you lined it up perfectly, the weight of 5000 gallons of water will move it. You want the water level almost at the hole when you cut it so you know the water is holding the liner in that spot forever.- I put a 12" square concrete block under every stanchion. Had to dig down and basically make it flush with the ground. SUPER painful and time consuming process, but worth it for stability.- I won't be using the included ladder, pump or filter simply because I had access to better ones so no feedback on those.- I purchased heavy duty coving (along base of wall in middle pic) and a pad to go under the pool. It comes with a blue tarp, but I wanted a bit of extra protection.- If you order this here, it is going to take a while to get to you. Research, review, watch, read and prepare the ground. It will make your install day(s) so much simpler.Good luck!

This pool is awesome for the money! It was not very difficult to put together however, the instructions are not very detailed so you have to use some common sense. The outer wall is heavy and hard to put up alone, so you’ll probably need a couple more hands. The packaging that it came in wasn’t very desirable, but all the pieces were still in it.

We purchased this pool when it was on sale for $1279. The instructions are not the best and you have to do a lot of educated guessing and look up videos online for help. Once you get that under your belt it is fairly easy to assemble. There are 2 major flaws with the design. one being the humps or covers that are over the middle stability legs, they sit inside the pool and have metal flat bands you attach that go across the pool. the bands do not sit flat and are a big problem when putting the liner in along with the covers over the bands and legs. The liner is not going to be flat no matter what you do or try, ultimately ending in a few small wrinkles on the bottom of the pool! Considering the size and the price you can't expect top quality really simple. As you add the water the pool walls become very stable and the entire structure solid as a rock! I personally love the pump that came with it, it does a great job and keeps the pool pretty clean. We did invest in a robot cleaner and that combined with the pump does a great job. The size of the pool is perfect and very roomy. Overall if you are not looking to spend $5000 this is a great option and worth the momentary frustration that comes with it.

assembly was pretty easy especially considering how vague the directions were, only thing that helped was the poor assembly video they had on the website which made me laugh... If you think your gonna put this together by yourself, your wrong, definately gonna need at least one person to help you, and make sure you put in the effort to have a leveled surface for the pool to set on. Consider getting a better pump and filter as the one that comes with this is pretty weak and wont even operate a pump vacuum, looks nice especially with the deck i built around the pool.

This pool came with instructions that only had pictures that were too small to make out what things were. Nothing was numbered or marked so you didn't know what part was what. No dimensions or anything! The website is no help with construction of the pool & you have to put a call back number in to speak someone! The pieces that you use to stand the sides up were not marked and we put the pool almost all the way together and on the last 10ft it wouldn't go together because the parts were not marked and we used the wrong ones. The video is a joke on how to put it together, 2 people, ya right, more like 6 for us! Just praying to God we get more than 1 summer out of it since it took us 3 days to get it together! I do NOT recommend buying this pool

Bought this pool after owning an intex for a few years. That one got crushed in the snow after year 3. I wanted to upgrade to a “real pool”. After doing research and watching build videos of this model and others like it, I went for it. Im glad i did. The pool is built and functions just like the big professional pools do.A few tips: you need at LEAST two people to build this. I used three and we got it done in about 4 hours.Make sure you have a level and sand covered base. This is key. I had a pro landscaper come and do this for me. (It was more expensive than the pool itself, but 100% necessary).Watch all the tutorials and do your homework. If you follow that you can have a great pool for a fraction of the cost.The sand pump seems to be doing well so far. Its a bit underpowered but much better than the mini one the intex pools come with. I hooked mine up to a salt chlorinator and so far its doing its job.Overall I am very impressed with this. Glad I went for it.