Doughboy pools

[dandy327]

Am currently in the market to get one of these to be specific Diamond 16/32 and have a quote for $5,171 and a choice of liners Harmony/$486 or the Solid Blue for $254 should i go for the cheaper liner or the higher price one.

I am also going to have them install it and i asked them if they do there own installs and they said they do it themself in case theres a problem down the road they a family run buisness for 30 years dealing with Doughboy pools.
The install Excavating and instant water which is a 17000 gal truck full would be $2500

So i figured total Pool and cheaper liner W/install will be $8,251 is this a fair price.


I would appriciate any kindof comments or suggestions

[geordie]

I can't really help you on the price issue since I bought my Doughboy almost 6 years ago and it is a different model. We also did our own install because I wasn't willing to pay for the mileage and time out to my house 50 miles from the dealer. I do know I didn't pay separately for the liner.

Patterns aside you want to check out the differences in the liner thickness. I'm assuming with the price difference one is thicker than the other. Generally, the thicker the better...

[hrsdennis]

It's a lot of money, but could be a real bargain. Is there a way you could check out some other pools these folks have installed. They should have a brag list of happy customers they could refer you to.

Try to check out the pool package with online dealers. If you find a big price difference your home store may come down a little to keep you as a customer.

If they do good work and the price compares decent I would go for it. But I would check them out first.

Best of luck, Dennis

[dandy327]

Thanks for the responce fellas. Hrsdennis i have tried to compare shop for doughboy pools online but i cant find website that has prices of these pools.

Do you know of any?

Again thanks

[dandy327]

Bummer i just did a BBB search of the company i have the Quote from on the pool and they had a unsatisfactory report so i dont think im going thru them to much money to throw at a company with a bad rating dont you think.

Back to the drawing board i sent out 2 other emails to other dealers for quotes hope to hear soon ill keep you all updated.

[Poconos]

Since liners were mentioned in this thread, there is some interesting info in this previous thread.
Al

http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthread.php?t=4018

[geordie]

That is a good thread about liners. I hadn't read it before, but the information in there was the reason I said "the thicker the better" instead of referencing a specific number.

When we bought our pool Doughboy was either manufacturing their own liners or having them manufactured to spec. I do not know if this is still the case but it is worth looking into before anyone buys Doughboy. Our liner is 25ml and it is holding up very well in our extreme climate (100 ish some days in the summer and -40 some days in winter) after six years. I noticed some mild bleaching below water line this year which doesn't disturb me at all since I keep my chlorine close to the top of the scale. In fact, it is possible the liner isn't bleaching below the water line, but may be darkening above the water line due to weather exposure and staining. I cleaned it this year, but it may retain some stain.

If this helps the OP... we bought our pool as a package. It was not extra for anything other than install. Everything was included right down to skimmer, vacuum head, filter sand and some start up chemicals and a solar blanket and winter cover. The 25ml liner was just a standard part of the package.