It’s August, it’s hot and this is one of the most critical times of the year to be on guard to protect your pool liner.  As reported in the Technical Bulletin below from the manufacturer of our vinyl, high chlorine and a low ph are your liner’s worst enemies.  I would also add warm water [...]

We recently had a homeowner ask a question in response to our blog post, What are the causes of discoloration, deterioration and “dry rot” above the water line on a pool liner?
My pool is doing is doing all three of these and it is only six years old. How can I prevent this from happening [...]

To answer this question properly there must be a basic understanding of the procedures involved in the printing of your pool liner. The print pattern is applied by a process called “roto-gravure” printing. The inks used are solvent based and when applied to the vinyl, they actually bond themself to the vinyl by “biting” into the [...]

There can be many contributing factors that lead to the fading of your liner.  All of those factors can be grouped under the heading of chemical attack, however the leading cause is simply over chlorinating.  Just as excessive use of bleach will fade your clothes, over chlorinating of your pool water will greatly accelerate the [...]

In most cases, these three problems are different stages of the same phenomenon.  The causes of these problems are many and varied, but have a universal theme.  In most cases, the discoloration (usually brown), the deterioration (stiffening of the vinyl) and then the complete failure of the vinyl, commonly referred to as “dry rotting,” is [...]

When an inground pool with a liner is leaking, there are only about five things that can be wrong:
1. Your liner may have a split seam.
2. There may be a hole poked or ripped in your liner.
3. There may be a leak in your pipes.
4. There may be a leak in the face plates of [...]

It has rained all season long, your backyard oasis has turned into a pile of mush, and the rain has caused the one thing pool owners don’t want to see – liner wrinkles.
There are two issues here:  how to get rid of the wrinkles, and how to keep this from happening again.
Wrinkles can be caused [...]