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

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.