We're in the process of replacing our liner on our 20K IG pool, and I've gotten a couple of bids from some local companies. Two companies offer Fort Wayne liners, which I've of heard before. Two of the others use Plastimayd and Premier as their manufacturers.

I was looking at the warranties for all three manufacturers, and basically I think they all amount to the same thing. (Really, the warranties don't cover all that much, in my opinion.) Just wondering what you have heard, good or bad, about any of those three manufacturers.

Also, we have found out that the reason we need a new liner is because we have many small holes in the bottom of our liner. We had a leak detection company come out, and they said that the holes were casued by tiny rough pebbles/gravel that eventually wore through the liner over time from foot traffic and vacuuming.

When we got our last liner installed five years ago, I thought that the floor felt a little rough, and I even called the installer back then. He said there would be some "settling" over time, and it wasn't uncommon to feel that.

The leak detection company said that unless they tear out the liner and look under there, it's hard to say how the gravel got there. They suspect that the installer didn't do a good job of cleaning up before installation. The installer claims the liner probably floated, and gravel got under there somehow. We always keep an adequate amount of water in our pool, even through the winter, and I have never seen any signs of floating, such as a wrinkled liner.

So what do you think? I personally think the installer is giving us a line, but he said he'd be willing to work out a discounted rate on the new liner if indeed it was his fault.