Quote Originally Posted by BigDave View Post
Thanks BTDG ( your nick describes me well )
1) At 52" the pool wall is an acceptable barrier.
2) The cheapest pools do sport 20 mil liners.
3) I haven't seen anything yet 2" wide. The cheapest I've seen are around 6".
4) How thick should I expect, I haven't seen alot about wall thickness - coatings, corrugation, style, but not thickness.
#1, I assume this means that with a 52" wall, you don't need a fence?
#2, 20 mil liners are great but a thinner liner is plenty good and usually cheaper if you're only going for a few years.
#3, More is better, a cheap pool can fail, I wouldn't skimp here.
#4, Not sure, but my point is to compare different brands, again more is better. I had a 4x18 foot pool "Bulge" at the bottom because of too thin of side wall and vertical supports. The pool store and pool supplier came out to my house and installed "Stiffeners" to the vertical uprights to "Help". Which all could have been avoided if I had done a little more homework. But that pool is rusting away in a landfill somewhere, so all is good.