Endless Pool Shipment and skeleton installation

Last week the Endless Pool shipment came from ABF who where the freight company that transported it.  The main crate had some apparent damage and was strapped together to prevent further damage.

After taking the straps off and removing the side panel that was bowing out to look inside, everything looked intact and undamaged. The guy who unloaded also took pictures and marked the shipment as damaged just in case there was real damage to it.  He took the straps and I resumed removing the panels and exposing all the boxes inside.

I'd say that base is a little uneven.  All the supporting
bases need to be the same height, and distributed evenly.
And the forklift base I think should be as wide as
 the entire crate to avoid damage.

We then broke down the panel crate and started putting the skeleton together.

Notice the fat side down.  WRONG!
Dummy!

After we got all four corners put together I realized we had the thing upside down. So we took an hour to disassemble the panels and turn everything right side up.  Small side down, fat side up!

Then I realized that I missed putting in the California braces, so then I had to loosen things up a bit to get that in there.  At this point I found the manual in amongst the boxes in the original crate.  I was operating off of instructions that were emailed to me.  The binder in the crate is the way to go.  Don't bother with downloading and printing out instructions. Everything is in that nice binder and in the right order.


After completing full inventory of the damaged crate I discovered one of the turning vane assemblies had a broken part.

I called Endless Pools and they were very quick to respond and get a replacement part shipped out.

However the first day of assembling things, made me realize this is a bit over my head.  So I asked Cathi to get in touch with Tom, the guy who allowed me to do my test swim, and find out who helped him assemble his pool.


She found out he is a factory trained Endless Pool installer.  His name is DC (Dave Christensen).  He is coming over this afternoon to look at what we've got and see if we can make a deal.

The easiest part was the stairs going up on the outside of the pool. It looked like something Lifetime would make. It was super easy to install.

Anyway, I'm hopeful that with DC, I'll be able to get this thing put together sooner rather than later. But that will come at a price. And I'm hoping the price is something I can handle. Cause the pool itself was insanely expensive.