On the downside vinyl pool liners need to be replaced every seven to 15 years at a cost of 3 000 to 5 000 about half the cost of resurfacing a concrete pool that has cracked but it happens more frequently.
Concrete vinyl pool.
Although the initial price is lower the long term cost to maintain a vinyl liner pool is 13 250 over ten years.
The average vinyl inground pool costs between 25 000 and 45 000 and between fiberglass and concrete vinyl is the most affordable option.
A concrete pool is more expensive than a vinyl pool for the same shape and size with the same features.
The warranty of your pool and more importantly who the warranty goes through is critical when deciding on a pool type and pool builder.
Either way you have to labor to maintain water chemistry but concrete pools make it harder for you.
And even though the designs have come a long.
Concrete pools are constructed in stages including pool layout and excavation steel installation plumbing installation equipment set gunite or shotcrete application tile and coping installation and interior finish installation.
A vinyl liner pool s pump filter system requires less energy than a concrete pool s because vinyl pools are not predisposed to algae growth.
It is very important that you prepare the grade of the ground that you are going to pour concrete on such that it is uniformly the same height as well as installing gravel or.
On a vinyl pool the coping is the aluminum or pvc track that retains the liner bead at the top of the wall.
The biggest disadvantage of vinyl liner pools is the cost and frequency of replacing the liner.
Seasonal world takes the worry out of this with our amazing warranty that comes standard with every concrete wall vinyl liner pool every concrete wall vinyl liner pool built by seasonal world is backed by a 100 year limited structural warranty.
For concrete pool renovations 10mm rebar is the minimum that i use but for a vinyl pool deck i am happy with the smaller and more affordable mesh wire for reinforcement.
Vinyl underground pool prices.
Vinyl liner pros and cons a vinyl liner pool is built by digging a giant hole installing steel or polymer walls then dropping in a paper thin vinyl lining.
In terms of initial cost a fiberglass pool is cheaper than concrete but still more expensive than a comparably sized vinyl liner pool.
It s actually closer to a fiberglass pool s energy bill.
The surface of vinyl is not as porous as a plaster finish on a gunite pool which means vinyl liner pools use less sanitizer than a gunite pool roughly around 25 less on average the non porous surface leads to less chemical usage during the season and therefore less money spent on chemicals.