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!

I cannot say enough good things about this pool! The pool came with everything, filter, hoses, winter cover, ladder. Not bad to assemble. We purchased a skimmer for the pool worked great. Easy to take care of better than our old pool. Our water was crystal clear a summer. Very heavy duty.

We are so happy with our purchase so far. This pool is plenty big for our purposes and was well within our budget. It took more than 60 minutes to set it up but it wasn't terrible. There were four of us working. We are fortunate to have a flat concrete slab in the back yard that was just large enough for this pool so I can't comment on leveling dirt, etc. The concrete is pitted though so we bought an extra pad to put under it to make it a bit softer against any potential sharp edges. The sand filter is nice. We've used traditional filters in the past on a much smaller pool and this seems like it will be easier to maintain in the long run. Pros: big, assembly is doable, cost not prohibitive, if we ever get tired of it we can take it down. Cons: the ladder is steep and rickety. We built a deck and bought in-pool stairs to attach to it instead. Getting all of the wrinkles out of the liner before adding water is nearly impossible. Unknown: Durability - I've read some negatives about rust and leaks but it's too soon for me to know about that. I hope I'm not sorry.

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This pool is absolutely amazing! It's huge and just the right size for all of our kids and parents too!!Easy to set up once we had a later of leveled sand and stone down.Just a note, the filter doesn't come with sand. We had to buy two 50lb bags.

This pool is awesome. It's huge and well made. The sand filter and pump make having a pool this size so easy to maintain.

Very disappointing as we were expecting to be able to use this pool for years. There’s now a big hole in the side for no apparent reason after only getting half the summer of use. Would not recommend.

Had for less than a year and the bottom has ripped from the sides all the way around-DO NOT BUY...COLEMAN last longer!!! HAD MY OTHER POOL YEARS!

We actually loved the pool and got so much use out of it. It is well-made and worth the money however it did not come with the ground cover. We used sand on the ground prior to setting it up. Without the ground cover, we had a huge issue cleaning up afterwards, as sand was stuck to the bottom of the outside of the pool due to no ground cover being sent. When taking down the pool, this gave us a huge headache when closing up for this season. Other than this, the pool is so worth it. The sides of the pool were at least 5 feet high!