Above Ground Swimming Pools: Enjoy the Water in Your Back Yard!

When the summer starts, and the hot weather pushes us outside, we dream with cool water, and nothing better than a splash in a swimming pool in our own back yard. The ideal swimming pool is, of course, an in ground one. They are beautiful and permanent, but also expensive, not only the pool itself, but also the permits and the installation. Many of us can't afford an in ground pool, so we choose the second option, the above ground swimming pool.

The above ground pools have some advantages over the in ground ones. The obvious one is the price. Even the biggest and more sophisticated aboveground pool is cheaper than the same size made for in ground. I was checking prices online, and I found out that the cheaper in ground pool kit is not less than 5.000 dollars, and that is a do it yourself kit, it is not counting the ground work, extra materials or permits. If we pay for the installation, it will be way more expensive. Many home owner associations don't allow the construction of an in ground pool. Some backyards have community wires running under the ground that don't allow us to dig on it. Or some people are renting a house and want to enjoy a pool without the hassle of build it. That is another advantage of the above ground pools, that we can take them down and store them when we don't use them. Even we can change their location if we want it.

There are many models of above ground swimming pools on the market, for any budget and for any type of location. We can find three big groups of above the ground pools:

-The soft linen fast set up above the ground pools, they are the cheapest ones, we can find the Easy Set Pool with no cover, with filter and 8'30'' round from 50.00 dollars in stores as Target, Wal-Mart or HEB. The biggest one, the 18'48'', costs around 600.00 dollars. The problem with these pools is the support: because the linen is soft, when too many people use the pool, or they are rough on it, the pool moves, spills and becomes instable.