Michael McCrudden’s Pool Time | Above Ground Pool Install Gone WRONG

all right guys welcome back to michael and kara's family channel i've had quite the experience uh opening my pool and uh well you know living my dream of having a house in the suburbs a pool a wife but let me tell you this pool journey it hasn't been easy it's actually been two months of hell a little back story well i got married at the beginning of the year in february in las vegas then we bought a house in march so money's been a little tight so i decided i would take on this job myself never having opened a pool i decided to call a guy who's been around the construction scene his entire life my old man steve mccrudden master electrician but also a bit of a character and not the best worker to be honest he drinks more than he works so with him on my team i figured i'll be able to handle this no problem i'm actually a pretty handy guy i've done a bunch of construction in the past this should be a no-brainer i'll be swimming in no time all right boys call the water truck she is good to go so when i pulled back the cover to open it things looked alright the liner had seen better days but hey it's a pool just gotta you know fill it up hop in add some chemicals should be good to go man i was way off so he did everything you need to do i got the heater turned on i got the pumps fired up i added them chemicals i even did my very first belly flop or as a cannonball buddy it was uh suburban bliss but the party it didn't last very long every night i would look at that pool and water was just gushing out of it i was losing like a foot or two foot a night so lo and behold it turns out that old liner it had a leak at least once i kept filming this thing day after day the water bill it nearly killed me and it just wouldn't stay at a certain level so at this point you got to find a leak and i'm searching the internet how the hell do you do that i bought some scuba gear and i bought this blue dot and i'm going around this like pool that's like spilling out into the backyard everywhere and i'm looking for a hole i can't find squat so then i got to the point where i started calling around asking a professional to come look and they were like dude by the time we get there and we have all our gear it might just be cheaper to buy a new liner so i said all right i guess i'll do that all right liner number two can be salvaged i gotta install these bad boys but eventually i'll be looking at this now if you think this is where the story ends guys it actually is when it just started here's two months of my life gone down into a pool i went to a hundred different pool stores i made 30 trips to home depot lowe's princess auto i'm buying bits and pieces and all sorts of crap waiting on this new liner to arrive so in the meantime i started working on the undercarriage on the flooring and uh i was pretty impressed with what i put together but bad news was just around the corner because when that new liner showed up it turns out i actually bought the wrong liner that's right uh there's a thing called a beaded liner and then there's an overlap and i needed a beaded liner i bought the wrong one i bought the overlap all right canadian tires got some competition but the real one the real one is this princess auto haul what is that place also people in hamilton they just give you stuff for free like they're like ah just take it amazing so now that the liner doesn't work i'm thinking damn you know i actually did find that hole when i was pulling out the first liner so me and my dad we decided no this new one doesn't work let's just try the old one again bad idea all right i just want to thank all my fans who've been tuning in i think things are finally coming together if anyone needs any help with their pool me so when the first liner went back in we actually made more holes than we had started with because i guess they got dry and the sun was on it this thing was cracking everywhere and we're talking mammoth holes so i became a bit of an expert at patching these holes up by a bit of vinyl on there with some adhesive and uh i did one then i did two by the time i was done i was doing like six or seven at this point i started getting like thousands of views on instagram people are like this guy's still working on his pool and you know i had to shout you guys out for all the love so the first liner was back in it was ready to get filled up again and all of a sudden my father he did the unthinkable after what like an eight-hour day out in the scorching heat working on this pool my dad dropped his pliers ripping the biggest hole we had seen yet by now the first liner was looking like frankenstein it had patches everywhere but hey i done the work i put it in place let's just fill this thing up let's get on with the show so now i'm bragging to everyone yeah i'm a handyman i've fixed it up i got a pool ready to go so we're filling it with water i had guests come over and just the weight of the water on this old liner it buckled that's right this liner it wasn't gonna work houston we got some major problems so here we go we're draining this pool again i think it's like the third time at this point now i emailed the previous owners just to make sure that i'd ordered the right size of liner because i'd gotten what kind of liner wrong i want to make sure i had the right one because i got to use that overlap i got to figure out how to make it work they said i had ordered the right size 36 feet by 16 feet so here we go but then we had a new problem because i got this new beautiful liner i put it in place and lo and behold it was too big yeah we started calling this the uh the uh foreskin problem we needed to throw a brisk for this pool so all of a sudden i'm trying to come up with ways where do i stretch this where do i hide this how is it gonna work i came up with the brilliant idea of hiding the foreskin behind the stairs all right it was a big day today fam the stairs are back the uh we're calling it the foreskin foreskin's been tucked and uh we put back one whole half of you know the border and what not so it's gonna look like a pool finally now with you know thousands of people tuning in on instagram we decided to fill this new pool up and my god i i used half the water in hamilton now this one had a lot of wrinkles uh so that was a job in itself just trying to push those out but with the liner not actually fitting it was kind of a it was a tough job let's say i got this plunger i was i was working my butt off even old man steve came back to help out again but this time he wasn't allowed to use any tools so the new liner actually seemed to be holding up and uh besides that awful looking foreskin there were no holes we started filling her up then i informed my father that uh well i had been filming him this entire time even my wife kara she decided to get in on the action probably because she was like when the hell is this guy gonna finish of course there were a few casualties we lost some pieces so you know we had to uh do it the old-fashioned way and start constructing it ourselves and then we had to start looking at the at the plumbing because uh it was just so much work dealing with the liners we kind of overlooked the fact that uh there might be some leaks in these pipes i sent my father home and i decided i would handle this all myself there were a few uh issues going around but all in all things were finally coming together anyway at the end of the day it took about two months with me on a budget trying to get this pool working and the honest answer is it's still a work in progress that's right it's a bit of a duct tape job but uh things are holding together and hey i'm swimming every day me and kara are loving it and uh well it's been a fantastic journey to share with you guys all right ladies and gentlemen uh without some like minor things like fixing these floating stairs regardless full time's coming to an end i just turn on the pump and uh she's working so thank you so much for tuning in to pool time and to see what i'm doing in my life outside of before they are famous my name is michael kreiden this is our family channel so be sure to subscribe and i'll see you guys in another video thank you bye [Music] you