So...
We went with the M&P place nearby and are mostly pleased. It's been about four weeks now and it's still holding water anyway. Paid 2500 for the job and they were done in a day and a half. Actually emptying and replacing took one day. Since we're on a well we had to have the water trucked in which took three truckloads @ $300 each (22K gal. total). Since we're 500' from the road it took into the evening and then the next morning to get the water in there.
He still needs to come up and fix two places where coping ends meet and need covers installed, one an inside corner at the steps. They were jammed with jobs due to the bad weather earlier here so I didn't press him then for it (not to mention they were right in the middle of placing the new liner when a really horrific storm blew in, which they worked right through). But i do all my business there and they know me so I think they're good for it.
Two things arose from this though that I'd like a second opinion on. One, there are a couple wrinkles in the steps and the liner doesn't press exactly into the corners. These are not major eyesores, the wrinkles are no more than 3-4 inches long, maybe 4 of them. I think I might just try to roll them out with a hard rubber roller I use for placing formica surfaces. The corners concern me a bit. I'm thinking about what it'll be like in 7 or 8 years. Any wear issues here?
The other has to do with the bead locks. They placed 1 to 2 inch chunks of bead lock at roughly 2 foot intervals around the pool. I mean real roughly. Clearly no measuring was involved and someone's eyeballing was pretty amateurish. It just doesn't look "finished". In fact there's one section of four feet or so where there's no bead lock. I did some reading here on beads and liners (Thanks for your reference A-B-C's post, waste!) and I can't figure out why a full run of bead lock entirely around the pool isn't a standard practice. It just seems like good insurance. And I found a 120' roll of it on line for $44. Why not? Am I out of line for asking for this? I really didn't think to talk about it when we were planning the install since I figured they'd want the pool to look finished, and this clearly doesn't.
Anyways, thanks for any feedback once again. Mostly I just wanted to bring the original post to some closure.
Chuck
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