How To Install A Skimmer In A Concrete Pool

The topic of the 24-hour interval started out every bit a question; can y'all install a vinyl liner into a concrete pool? Yes, you tin, and I've done it before, on a physical pool from the 1950'due south.

Perched on a steep hillside, the pool was crumbing and cracking, and would i mean solar day soon need replacement. While saving for a pool replacement, a cash strapped homeowner asked me if I could stop the leaking with an inground vinyl liner?

The pool was well-nigh 15×xxx′ rectangular with an irregular floor and deep end bowl, and a fix of wedding cake concrete steps in the shallow stop corner. Actually I think most puddle guys would accept run far away from this job, however I had a professional curiosity, let's just say.

Installing a Vinyl Liner in a Physical Pool

After carefully measuring the puddle, I sent it the form to my vinyl fabricator who was fabricated aware that this is a vinyl liner for a concrete pool. I was advised to expect some wrinkling or ill-plumbing fixtures behavior across the flooring and steps. Ok, we can deal with that.

Since my customer opted toabandon the existing (leaking) plumbing, we continued new pipes running across the deep end deck (nether the diving board), and dropping into the pool. In a few hours we had a 'Lily Pad' Skimmer and LWS (depression water suction) lines on one pipe, and the pool render on the other pipe. Yous could too use the Skim-A-Round skimmer, which floats around.

To install the liner rail, I bought a case of Quaker Plastics liner bead receiver QP-521, and screwed it to the top of the puddle tile, using long Tapcon screws. Non the most elegant solution, information technology stuck out like a sore thumb, but information technology would get the job done.

When the liner arrived, we draped it beyond the pool, and locked it into the runway. Using a Mighty Vac, we sucked all the air out from behind the liner until the liner was tight, to mimic the fit when total of water.

Wrinkles…as promised. We adapted the fit as much as nosotros could by shutting off the Mighty Vac and pulling and pushing vinyl in directions away from the pocket-size creases or folds in the vinyl. Later on much exasperating work, we settled on three large folds running across the pool floor, and 3 small folds on the pool stride vertical risers. A cinder cake puddle would be easier, with an even slope, but we had a traditional physical pool floor slopes.

We filled the concrete/vinyl pool with water and started up the filter system. The Lily Pad skimmer and LWS was providing a proficient replacement for the old skimmer and main drain, and the render was creating a lot of circulation.

This concrete puddle with a vinyl liner, although not pretty to look at,survived several seasons, perhaps 5-7, solving major leaking problems in the pool shell and pool plumbing.

If I was to exercise it again, (put a liner in a concrete pool), I would applylight amplification by stimulated emission of radiation measurement of the pool (not available in those days), for a better fit than the analog measurements nosotros used. Too I would fasten therail at the top of the tile, only not above the tile, where you tin detect loose mortar beneath the coping stones.

The liner track could also be installed more than permanently in a physical pool, nether reset coping stones, or a repoured pool deck. Choose the C-face coping for a poured concrete deck, or lay the horizontal track under the mortar bed of the reset or replaced coping stones. There is too a wood deck coping offered past Primal Systems.

Installing a vinyl liner in a physical or fiberglass pool can be done. In this case we abandoned the old plumbing and ran pipes across the deck. Nosotros could've put the pipes clandestine, or installed new (vinyl) skimmers, drains and returns, merely that'd tripled the cost of the project.

To catechumen concrete skimmers, main drains and returns to vinyl skimmers, vinyl drains and vinyl returns, you accept to literally cut the entire matter out, and replace with a specific vinyl liner fittings which uses gaskets and screws to secure a waterproof faceplate. Nosotros chose to lay new pipes beyond the deck, nether the diving board, just you lot could also drill holes through the wall, and install new (vinyl) suction and return plumbing underground.

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If you want to talk about putting an inground vinyl liner in a poured concrete pool, gunite puddle or cinder block puddle, give us a call, or download this measurement form for press. We tin can aid y'all with measurements and supplies like wall foam, liner track and liner lock.

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