Thread: 60's Pool Renovation - Time for a Change

Just a scrub and polish today. Off comes the little pointy bits. On goes the sealer. For those who may be wondering about slippery when wet? The sealing material has small silicone grains in it. Perfect traction without affecting the visual appearance.

A Dawn to Dusk Extravaganza !!!

Time to start prepping the walls. A nice early start. But wait what's this. A delivery! Yippee the liner arrives. Let's rock and roll. Scrap and clean the bottom. Start hanging the liner (shallow end first) and work it into the corners. More scrapping, more hanging, more vacuuming, more hanging and before you know it the liner is sitting in place. Now for some big time suction. This baby pulls out a lot of air. Magically the liner sits down in place. Let the water works begin. Need to get the level up to the black tape line. Should take between 18 to 20 hours. Will see what the morning brings. Getting closer to a swim.

Wow! It's coming along quite nicely.

Shoulda wrote yer name and date on the concrete before they covered it up....

Looks marvelous, and with the weather we've been having, you might yet get a couple of weeks splash time out of it....

Great looking job.

And did not know that about the diving board, can't install a diving board due to liability, that truly is an example that the inmates have taken over the asylum.

Beautiful job....

There will have to be some grill'n on opening day.

Terrific progress! New liner looks great. Really top notch work!

I think these days they sell jumping rocks, not diving boards. Even up here in the country, no new installs have boards.
My sister went the fiberglass climbable rock route for her pool install. Neat, but not the same.
Having a board these days is like a vintage collectable. Need to keep it in good shape as they aren't replaceable.

Originally Posted by HARRYWALLY

Wow! It's coming along quite nicely.

Shoulda wrote yer name and date on the concrete before they covered it up....

We did consider it but never got around to it.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

There will have to be some grill'n on opening day.

You betcha! Wife's already planning the menu.

Originally Posted by Phrank

Looks marvelous, and with the weather we've been having, you might yet get a couple of weeks splash time out of it....

Great looking job.

And did not know that about the diving board, can't install a diving board due to liability, that truly is an example that the inmates have taken over the asylum.

Beautiful job....

Thanks. It's been an interesting process. Lot's of pre planning. Hated to leave the diving board out but they wouldn't even put the anchors in place when pouring the cement. It was a deal breaker for every pool contractor we talked to. Sad.

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Terrific progress! New liner looks great. Really top notch work!

I think these days they sell jumping rocks, not diving boards. Even up here in the country, no new installs have boards.
My sister went the fiberglass climbable rock route for her pool install. Neat, but not the same.
Having a board these days is like a vintage collectable. Need to keep it in good shape as they aren't replaceable.

Thanks. These guys are knocking it out of the park. The fit was perfect. Hated to lose the board.

Originally Posted by Brenngun

Thanks. It's been an interesting process. Lot's of pre planning. Hated to leave the diving board out but they wouldn't even put the anchors in place when pouring the cement. It was a deal breaker for every pool contractor we talked to. Sad.
Thanks. These guys are knocking it out of the park. The fit was perfect. Hated to lose the board.

You can always ad your own anchors.......

Is there any specific reason why you chose a liner for the pool as opposed to leaving the concrete exposed and rather sealing it?

Originally Posted by 32t

You can always ad your own anchors.......

Are you kidding. She who must be obeyed wouldn't let me within a mile of drilling holes in her nice new patterned concrete patio. She'd hit the roof and I'd be in the dog house for a very long cold winter.

Originally Posted by Thug

Is there any specific reason why you chose a liner for the pool as opposed to leaving the concrete exposed and rather sealing it?

In my neck of the woods you have 3 options. Gunite (like a concrete), vinyl liner with steel walls behind or preformed fiberglass. Most expensive by a lot is gunite because it has to be built to withstand harsh winter weather and extreme ground frost. Since my pool started life as a vinyl liner it was going to be much less expensive to do this reno keeping it that way. Putting in a gunite pool would likely be about $40k - $60k difference. The existing steel walls were in great shape so we elected to stick with vinyl.