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 List Price: $279.99 Sale Price: $229.90 
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A great deal! Complete with filter pump, ground cloth, pool cover, ladder, maintenance kit, surface skimmer, and video. Ready for water in 10 minutes! Select your location, inflate the top ring, and the Easy SetTM pool rises while you fill it with water. Super tough sidewalls are made with 2 outer layers of PVC laminated to an inner layer of polyester mesh for extra strength and durability.
Advisory: Pool owners may need to comply with local or state laws relating to childproof fencing, safety barriers, lighting, and other safety requirements. Customers should contact their local building code enforcement office for further details.
- Intex's Easy Set Pools are great for smaller children, smaller yards, or for families making their first pool purchase.
- They're easy for consumers to carry to the back yard, easy to assemble, and early to enjoy!
- Filter pump, Ladder, Ground Cloth, Cover, Maintenance Kit, Surface Skimmer, and DVD included
- Ready for water in 15 minutes
- Room for the whole family
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A fun pool and you get what you expect. Not too deep for little kids and deep enough to go under water and swim for bigger kids. However you really MUST put this on flat ground, even 2-3 inches difference in height side to side makes a big difference. I had to empty the pool and level the site after setting it up initially. Also I recommend a floating (constant) chlorine supply to avoid algae, which you can get at any pool store and run the filter more frequently than the instructions say. A little extra maintenance is worth it. My kids 9 and 11 really had fun.
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I got this pool a while ago and have been very pleased with the results. Easy instructions make this pool simple to set up. It holds about 3110 gal. of water. WARNING: Do not fill the ring up 100%. It will explode. The instructions don’t warn you of it but it can happen. Luckily I never had to experience a bursted bubble. The reason why I rated the education value at a three was because it can help you learn to swim (with a teacher). I would also rate it as a 5 for simple set up.
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I purchased this pool last year for my family. It might only take 15 minutes to set up if you have help…it took more than 15 minutes just to get the ground cloth the way I wanted it. Your ground MUST, MUST, MUST be level. If it’s off more than 1 inch you’re in trouble. Don’t try filling it higher than the instructions say or you’ll have one of your children going over the top (which they loved and asked if they could do again, I said no) with 100 gallons of water or so. The instructions say to run the filter for something like 5-6 hours per day. No, you need to run the filter 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Forget the little floating Chlorine tablet thing. Go buy the small 1 inch chlorine tablets and fill the center of the filter after it’s in the pump container with the tablet. Refill every 2-3 weeks when you change or clean the filter. You can take the filter out and clean it with the hose and/or soap and water/hose instead of putting out $7.00 every 3 weeks for a new filter. I’ve learned all this by doing it the wrong way and then talking with the pool guys and learning the right way. But after it’s all set up and going it’s so much fun, even for the adults. You just have to be committed to keeping it going. And you save water by not having to dump it out every few days.
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This pool is great!! We read everyones’ comments, we watched the video, and read the directions before starting to set up this pool. We prepped the ground where a former pool had been. Made it as level as possible and flattened the ground out. From the time we started to lay the tarp to the time we started to fill the pool was 15 minutes. My 12 year old daughter & I set this pool up. It wasn’t filled with water until the next day, almost 4,000 gallons will not come out of a garden hose fast. Advice for making sure the pool is level….pay attention to where the water goes in the pool while you are filling it. If the water evenly distributes itself, then the pool is level. If you have a bunch of water at one end and none at the other, STOP, the pool is not level. Set it up right the first time and you will love this pool!!
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I have the 16 x 42, this pool is great, it does take a little longer than 15 min. but it is worth it. You do have to get it even before filling up, mine is a little lopsided but I don’t care. I saw those $3000.00 above ground pools blown apart like in peices after Charley, my easy set was just full pine tree branches.
I was very impressed. My kids used it everyday. And so did all the other kids on the block. It was also very easy to take care of, mine has never turned green. I was pulling it out of the shed this time and I ripped the bottom, it took me a whole 20 min. to fix it. I don’t understand why this pool is hard for some people to take care of, all you have to do is keep a clorine floater in it all the time. There are actually 2 things I don’t like about mine, the covers do not fit right and the little vacuum thingy is somewhat a joke. I only paid about $200 for mine I am on season 2, I think that’s pretty good.
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Great pool. Owned same one for 4 years. Just threw out and buying another tomorrow but bigger. Sure,I found some small holes during the year but patched them up and was ready to go. You do have to use chemicals to keep it clear and clean, but any pool you have to. I probally spend 1 1/2 hours a week on upkeep but the time is very well worth it. Kids are in it all the time by themselves or with friends. I use the same filter a lot longer than recommended though but I soak in shock for 5 minutes and rinse off with a garden hose. Buy a test kit to check the water twice a week. Takes 5 minutes. My wife and I enjoy the pool too. Dry the pool completely and store in a large bin for the winter for years of fun. Cant wait till tomorrow.
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After reading all of the reviews, I want to offer a little help to those having trouble. First, this is an EXCELLENT pool when used correctly. Several times it has been mentioned that you need 100% level ground. This is not true. What happens is that when the pool starts to fill, you MUST be sure that the bottom seams are where they are supposed to be. This is what causes probably 60% of leaning pools. If the seams are uneven, then the pool will lean. Simple as that. It took us a while to figure that out, because it’s not extremely obvious when you’re setting it up. Secondly, I’m sure there have been some problems with seams splitting, but I offer this…PLEASE make sure that you have an INTEX EASY SET POOL and not the AQUA SIMPLE SET POOL. They look almost identical, but the Aqua brand is highly inferior. I have many friends who took the cheaper Aqua pools after seeing mine and thought they had the same thing. The seams split on every one of them. So, make sure you have the right brand. The most important thing I can tell you is to watch the video. You can’t just spread it out and leave the hose running in it. The most important step is to start smoothing it out when the water gets a few inches high and then continue to do so until there’s enough water that you can’t move it anymore. This is vital to keeping the pool level and free of creases. We have had our pool for four years and have a VERY uneven yard. We have two kids (10 and 5) and the entire neighborhood swims in it (I had 8 kids in there yesterday). We’ve never had a problem after the first year when we finally wised up and watched the video. The most important part of any pool is proper set-up and maintanance. If you’re willing to put in the work, the rewards are sweet.
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What great fun it has been for the kids and even the adults! This pool has served us well. We live in a hot climate and often have 100 degree temps. We have not had any problems with this pool and are quite pleased with it!!
Believe me, it is very refreshing on a hot day and I do not feel silly in this pool. We cannot have an inground here d/t underground utilites and d/t association rules, cannot have a large above ground either so this “kiddie pool” has been the answer, at least for now!!
I set this pool up every spring, all by myself. I am a 5′2″ woman. No problems. It is very easy. However, I do have help lifting the folded pool back onto the “pool area” of our yard because it is too heavy for me to lift alone but not so heavy to spread out and remove the wrinkles. We clean and store it for the off-season.
We started out with the 12 x 36 pool but felt we needed a bigger size and the following year purchased the 15 x 42 and it was just that much better for us. We are considering the 18 foot model if and when this one gives out. This one has lasted 4 years thus far and has been a decent size for us. I can easily exercise in this one while my children swim around.
The ground cloth has suffered some accidental shredding from the mower but we have never landscaped the area off like we should have.
The pool ring was punctured by some kids (4-5 random pin holes). The patch kits repaired it beautifully. Finding the holes was my real challenge. I found some dark blue duct tape that blended well with the ring color so I made little taped covers for additional protection over the patched areas. Not sure that I needed to do that but it came to me when I saw the tape in the store… You can see the little taped areas but they don’t really stand out and the duct tape has stayed put, even in this heat.
The pump still works fine. The ladder is showing slight rust around some of the screws. I would like to see wider ladders with platforms but for the low price of these pools, I doubt they’ll get fancier within the pool package and thus, will need to purchase a ladder on our own. BTW-those cost more than these pools do, so what a steal the pool packages are!
The first year I had the pool ever-so-slightly off level. My child leaned on the side and the water gushed out along with my child – who thought it was so much fun, he wanted to do it again! I think that was my fault (not level) and obviously, he was not hurt. We lost a LOT of water but the plants and grass slurped it up! I turned off the sprinklers for a few days just in case the ground was over saturated but the ground did not stay wet past that same evening so not sure I needed to do that. The homes here are close together and if any water went to the neighboring yard, they never said a word. I doubt it was even noticeable but if so, more than likely appreciated since they have lots of landscaping.
I then drained and re-leveled the pool. All was fine thereafter.
Now, into the fourth year, it is still a fun time for the kids and going strong. The water stays sparkling clean. I use the net in there quite often and that helps. This has been our best summer, not having to re-fill the pool d/t dirty water but I suppose we have learned how to maintain this pool by now since every year gets easier. I use the chlorine tabs in a floater and if we get build up on the bottom we just use a piece of hose cut from an old one and syphon that out (very fast method).
We are very pleased with this one! I hope that if we upgrade, we do not get a lemon like the customer who had the seems split apart, wow!
Here, a pool ticket for the family for one season costs more than the pool so we have definitely made out!
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We originally, back in 2002, bought the 10′ pool. My oldest child was 5 that year, youngest child was 2, and the three of us used the pool every day all summer long. We loved it, though it was slightly lopsided from being not perfectly level. I added powdered chlorine every 3 or 4 days we never had any trouble with keeping the pool clean. The next year we knew to set it on more level ground, so built up one side of the ground with a plywood platform. No problem…. pool was perfectly level. We used it again all summer long. The following summer we had a slight problem, as the ring developed a leak. It actually didn’t cause as much trouble as it could have, we just inflated the ring every couple of days with our electric air compressor. The other problem was that the pool was getting to be a little small for us.
So, this past summer we bought the 15′. Knowing, from previous experience, that the ground would need to be completely level, we planned for a local contractor to drop a load of gravel. Well, as pool time approached we decided to save a few dollars, and bought our own sand. We bought thirty, 40 pound bags of white play sand at the store ($2.29/bag, so grand total of $68.70 plus tax). It was more than enough to fill in the low spots in the yard. We then spread out the tarp and went to work!
Setting up the pool was NOT the challenge that some other people say it is. We got it spread out level, started filling it, and AS IT FILLED we continued to flatten out any wrinkles in the floor. It was filled to the top in a few hours. we then added the solar blanket that we had purchased, and waited a few days for the water to warm up.
I have to say that this was easily the best purchase I have made in a LONG time! This pool was big enough for me, my husband, and three children to actually SWIM in all summer. We again used the powdered chlorine for routine chlorination. We ended up removing the filter basket and hooking the hoses directly to the filter. It meant an extra five minutes of skimming the pool by hand every day, something I honestly didn’t mind. We algae treated every couple of weeks as a preventative treatment, and the pool stayed sparkling clean all summer (with water temperature hovering right around 80 degrees, thanks to the solar blanket!)
I cannot understand the challenges some people have with their pools. If you follow instructions then it is NOT difficult!
I would definitely recommend this to anyone, and will purchase another, slightly larger, when all of my little ones grow.
Great pool!
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We bought this last year in march and couldn’t wait to set it up come summer time. Yes, setting it up was harder and took longer than 15 minutes, but it was because I did put carpet under the pool as said by other users and found that was an amazing idea, the carpet made the bottom softer and also kept all sorts of stuff from coming through the pool. I did learn that with our 4 kids and oursleves plus anyone else coming over ( once you get the pool your house is the place to be ) we had to replace the filter every week NOT every 3 weeks like it says. Plus we used the powder chlorine for the first month then got smart and got a floater which for us was perfect and kept the water at the right level all summer. I would wash out the filter every other day or sometimes daily but that doesnt take long, and was super easy to do. If my kids didnt keep jumping in and putting grass in the pool i wouldnt have had to do it that often, but they enjoyed it. It provides lots of family time and even my 2 yr old would ask to go every day. My husband and I are excited to have summer come, just so we can put it up. I would recommened this to anyone that is wanting to invest the little bit of time it takes to have a clear blue and wonderful pool.