For our print liners, we take a solid base film, spray on ink and then add a protective top-coating. If you order just the solid base film, there’s no ink and therefore there’s no topcoat to protect the vinyl. Scum rings will form and the material fades and dry rots quicker.

If you were hoping to acheive a gunite pool look, a floor print overall would be a better choice as a solid color liner has more the look of an above-ground pool liner.

Our best recommendation is to buy an overall print. A good example is our “Malcolm” pattern that is almost solid blue.

MALCOLM FLOOR OVERALL

These techniques not only provide the best look but also guarantee the safety aspect of our covers. By winterizing your pool with a safety cover, you keep your liner out of the sun and chlorine-free for many months which can greatly extend the life of your liner. Click here for more information on our safety covers.

1- Consider color scheme.

Start with a color scheme you find pleasing. Choose from blue and gray; blue and green; blue and brown; earth tones; green or tan.. It’s what you find pleasing that counts.

2- Consider tone.

Narrow your focus by deciding whatever your color scheme looks better in lighter shades, medium shades or darker shades. There is a color and a shade for everyone.

3- Consider design elements.

Now you can narrow your focus by deciding whcih design elements you find to be most pleasing. Do you prefer large diamonds, mosaics, vines or perhaps a fun motif such as Elliot the fish?

4- Consider floor patterns.

Finally, choose a floor pattern. Do you prefer river pebbles, water reflections or granites?

Remember, all of our patterns are winning designs, so select the one you like the best. You can also see all of our in-ground liner patterns installed in actual pools.  Just go to our website and click on any pattern or hit the Pattern Viewer button.

If you choose to replace your liner in the fall, the key is to pick your day very carefully. It has to be warm outside and the sun also has to be shining. It is the sun beating down on the vinyl on a warm day that loosens it up and allows the material to vacuum into place properly.

For 20 mil liners, we suggest instaling liners on a day no cooler than 60 degrees and for 27 mil liners, we suggest 70 degrees.

If you choose to change your liner in the fall, your pool will be ready to go on the first day of spring. This prevents any waiting to get on your installer’s schedule or for the weather to break.

What is the most important issue to consider when buying a new liner for your pool? Is it price? Is it the liner pattern or thickness? The length of warranty? Which pool liner brand to choose?

In reality, it is none of these. Instead, the most important decision is which local swimming pool contractor you are going to hire to measure, install and stand behind the purchase of your new in-ground vinyl pool liner. Every other decision can just be a distraction. If you hire someone who misses one measurement, you may spend the next seven years looking at wrinkles. If you let someone who is inexperienced install your pool liner, you may have wrinkles or a pool liner that will fail early on. If you buy from someone out of town or who is not around in a few years, you will have no advocate to make sure your warranty claim is treated fairly in case there is a problem. It is your local swimming pool industry professional who lives and works in your community that will guarantee your satisfaction. Choose that contractor wisely. Nothing else is more important.

The chlorine tablets are concentrated and they have a very low ph.  When your pump is running, the water going through your skimmer is constantly eroding the tablet, adding chlorine to the water which quickly makes its way through your filter system and into your pool.  If the pump goes off, now that tablet is sitting in just a few gallons of water and the chlorine level rises and ph drops.

Now you have a skimmer full of highly chlorinated/acidic water and when it sloshes out of the skimmer and back into the pool with the regular movement of the water in your pool, that caustic water runs right down the face of the wall and can burn your liner as shown in the photos below.  This will damage and permanently discolor your liner.

Many have rounded edges and corners and cannot be covered effectively.  Trying to cover these most times leads to wrinkles and a poor fit.  This is obviously a project for a pool professional and you should depend on him to decide if your steps can be covered with vinyl or not.  In most cases, our best recommendation is to add faceplates and gaskets around the step perimeter and not have the liner cover the steps.

In all three of the examples shown below we would recommend using step faceplates and not trying to cover the steps with vinyl.