"LetterBee" wrote in message
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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?



If my calculations are correct, that would take 5.3 cubic meters of water,
or 5.3 ton + people jumping about!

For that sort of weight I'd make my own deck, using 9 legs to spread the
weight