From: "Don Phillipson" 
Newsgroups: alt.home.repair misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: New Pool Liner - What Is The Process?
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 09:48:11 -0400

"Matt Kruse"  wrote in message
news:e2ec6701s06@news2.newsguy.com...

> I'm entering the third summer as owner of an inground pool, and I'm still
> learning how to maintain it!
>
> Our liner currently has about 20 patches in it around the top where it's
> tearing away. When we bought the house, we knew nothing about pools or the
>  . . .
> I was told that I need to have the pool clear in order for them to measure
> for a new liner. Is that correct?

The pool contractor does not need to remeasure the pool
before supplying a liner.  He just checks the brand and
size and looks it up in a catalogue of liners.

Plastic (vinyl) pool liners degrade in sunshine.
Twenty repaired holes suggests this liner was far gone
before you bought it.  (Mine is nearly 20 years old, no
holes yet.)  --Or else the liner either fitted badly or was
improperly installed.

-- 
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)