Waiting for a house to sell, we have been shopping for a pool for six months thinking vinyl liner petty much the whole time. You can build some really nice looking vinyl pools now, but when we got down to details, we found vinyl pools haven't progress to beach entries or custom changes in shapes at reasonable prices. You can customize the shape, but the cost shoots up because shape changes require the pool manufacture to design than build the steel to the shape. Even worse is after you spend the extra money for the change, the liner still may not fit perfectly. Just about every contractor we interviewed told us that it is next to impossible to get those complicated liners to fit perfect and look good.

Our price for the pool we designed with everything we wanted was within just a couple thousand of the Gunite, so we switched. If you like the basic shapes of the vinyl pools presented in the brochures, than vinyl is a good option. If you want more freedom to build the pool with the shape of your dreams using beach entries, custom swimouts, and suntan ledges, then you probably want gunite.

beary