Liner problem/advice

[PoolDoc]

email them to poolforum@gmail.com, along with the thread number for this thread (22171, from the URL)

OR

post them at Flickr, Webshots, Google Drive, etc and link to them.

[CarlD]

Nothing like having a new liner split at a seam after less than two weeks. Happened to me. Woke up on "Mother's Day" in 2003 (wife and kid were visiting her mom) to the sound of a waterfall...but I had no water effects in my new pool--other than the split seam in the liner! The new liner (under warranty) was the ugliest install, ever. Wrinkles everywhere, and, at night with the lights on, you can see the installers' bootprints in the sand at the bottom. Naturally THAT liner has now lasted 11 seasons! (where's the facepalm smiley when I need it?)

[not2high2fly]

Funny you mention boot print's I have them too

[CarlD]

Did they try to talk you out of sand and to use vermiculite instead? That should have clued me that they were clueless about how to work the sand.

You're not THAT far from me. The original installer came down from Buffalo because he also installed the pool. The warranty contractor was NY/NJ local.

[not2high2fly]

It was just a replacement,take the old one out smooth out my sand and drop it in, no extra's just the vinyl. Tried a few night shot's maybe you can see better, the brush in the pic's is for scale and it is 3'. Thanks again

[PoolDoc]

Your pics:

[PoolDoc]

OK. I posted your pictures. I'm not sure what to make of them.

A black liner with no pattern is going to make such surface defects more visible. But since it's a purely visual defect, rather than a functional one, I imagine that the contract you have with your contractor is likely to determine your options.

I don't know if that's acceptable work in your area, or not. I do know -- purely from having swum in a number of vinyl pools -- that such surface irregularities are common in my are. But you don't see them, usually, with a patterned liner.