Installing New Liner

[Watermom]

It is harder than it looks to get it in there wrinkle free. Our last liner we installed ourselves with the help of a few friends. We did the best that we could, but we did have a few small wrinkles in the bottom. When we replaced our liner last summer, we decided to go ahead and let somebody else do the installation and I have no wrinkles. A lot of people do install their own liners, but I don't think I ever will again. I'm sure you'll hear from many people in this thread who have done their own. But, like I said above -- it is harder than it looks to get it wrinkle free. Just my opinion. (And, yes, the corners will slope. You can't make a liner do a 90 degree angle.)

[gonefishin]

I've only assisted other people in putting in their liners. From this I came to reason that I will never...never install one myself!

I held true to this when I had my pool put in last spring '06. I had the pool professionally installed by a pool contractor that had been in business for many years. I had some problems with the pool (that I ended up correcting...not them!) and some fairly decent wrinkles in the bottom.

I'm not sure what the answer is on how to get a wrinkle free liner. But I still doubt that I'll be doing my own when it's time to replace it.


Good luck,
dan

[Mom2Czars]

We had our pool (the one that just failed) installed last summer.

All they did was use a shop vac (with a longish hose attached) through the skimmer hole to create the vacuum suction to get the pool liner smooth. Worked like a charm.

[CarlD]

We had two liners installed in our pool. The first was done very nicely and the installed apologized profusely for the few wrinkles. Unfortunately the liner had a flaw and failed 10 days later. The liner company gave me a replacement and paid for a local crew to install it. They made a mess that I am stuck with going into my 5th season. They couldn't manage the sand, and the wrinkles and foot-prints are gross.

My point? I could have done a better job than the 2nd crew, but the 1st one did well.