Moving a pool question

[Pibster]

I am moving a pool from my neighbors yard to mine. It's a 5 year old pool with a beaded liner. Am I wasting my time trying to reuse the old liner or should I just order a new one?

[Watermom]

You're better off ordering a new one.

[aylad]

Once liners are drained, they're not really good about re-stretching to be refilled. Besides, if it's 5 years old, you are at least halfway through the life of the liner anyway. I'd get a new one if it's in the budget....

[Pibster]

I guess I'll get one ordered. Would all 18' x 52" pool liners be standard?

[PoolDoc]

No!! Not at all.

[Pibster]

The pool supply website shows 18' standard spec round liners 52" high. Why would this not fit my pool? Wouldn't most pool manufactures use a standard size?

[PoolDoc]

Pibster, you've got our recommendations. They are are not going to change, if you ask a few more times.

It's your choice: do what pleases you!

Who knows? You might get lucky, and find one that actually is interchangeable. I'd guess that's happened once or twice.

[Pibster]

What is the correct protocol for ordering a new pool liner for a re-located pool? Do I have to reassemble the pool, take measurements, and then dismantle the pool so that it doesn't blow away while I wait for the new liner to arrive?

[PoolDoc]

I think you are making some incorrect assumptions: AGP manufacturers assume AG pools will be discarded on removal; there is no "protocol" for doing what you're doing. If you can work out what to buy, and who to buy it from, they'll sell it to you, but they'd rather sell you a new pool.

Fact is, in their shoes, so would I. AG pools aren't DESIGNED to be portable. From a dealer's or manufacturer's point of view, trying to support re-sold pools is a bucket of grief for a cup of gravy. The people with the pool don't know how to install them ( usually), can't tell if the pool is too damaged to be worth re-installing, and don't know where, or how, to buy needed parts. Trying to help folks in that market is a lot of work with little income, for customers who are likely to be upset with the dealer or manufacturer when things go badly.

That's not your fault. But, it's also not a dealer's or manufacturer's fault that they choose not to pursue business activities that are likely to be money-losers.

In your situation, an experienced pool builder would have ordered the liner before he took the pool down. So, yes, you may have to assemble it in order to measure it . . . unless you can identify the EXACT make and model of the pool . . . and possibly the year it was made, since models can change by year.

My opinion is, you would probably have been better off buying a new Intex pool. But, I'm guessing it's too late for that.

Good luck!

[Pibster]

Makes sense to me now.

Thanks,
Pibster