Wifey has just bought a 10foot circular paddling.swimming pool. Its 36 inches deep but gets filled to 30inches. As you can imagine, thats a lot of water. The problem is we have decking attached to the back of the house and she wants this pool at the bottom of the garden but placed on an 11foot square deck, so it looks like the old decking. The decking she wants is over grass so I'm presuming that the four corner posts would be bedded in concrete, however I am concerned over the sheer weight of the water. I suppose I could place the four corner posts and put an extra one down each length (three in all on each side) and one in the center to help support it but even with that I am still concerned that it wont be strong enough. Looking in BleedinQueue (B&Q) their decking framework are 4"*2", would this be strong enough for a support? I could just place the decking on the floor but wifey wants it raised slightly, only by a couple of inches but raised anyway. Any ideas, thoughts, good divorce solictors or one way tickets to Oz?
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18 years ago