Shop Vac or Not? Install question

[CarlD]

Lots of pool "installers" have no idea how to properly install a liner. I'm replacing my liner after this season and I cannot WAIT to correct all the mistakes they made. At night, when the lights are on in the pool, you can SEE the workers' footprints 12 years later! Wrinkles, the bottom looks terrible, just a rotten job. The first installers actually did a good job but the liner split on a seam after 10 days and these were the warranty guys. Kept whining to me that I shouldn't use sand, should use vermiculite. I should have listened and found another installer (who knew how to work with sand).

[5galspools]

I sometimes wonder how pool stores/installers stay in business. The store I'm dealing with is trying to say that the liner company doesn't reimburse them for labor when doing warranty work!!! I ain't stupid. I'm waiting now to see the settlement from the liner company, who REFUSED to send me anything in writing as to how they reimburse on warranty work. Keep in mind the line was installed Memorial Day weekend (this year) took me until July 4th to locate the seam that was coming unglued. Who would think the seam was bad in a brand new liner.
I'm lucky I have some good sense when it comes to dealing with mechanical things and can think for myself. I feel sorry for women who could be charged through the nose by pool companies for leak detection, etc.