Introduction
Installing a new vinyl liner for your pool fast and easy and requires little technical skill. The installation of the coating is actually quite simple as a DIY project, especially when you consider how much money you will save over a weekend. As a commercial installer vinyl pool cover is a difficult process, because it will be necessary to provide the necessary knowledge outside of what is needed for the installation of the same line, and be held responsible for any shipInstalling aesthetically perfect.
Installation of three ships per week, with no wrinkles or problems in need of years of experience in the trade. Installation of a single film, with private pool, is for the benefit of explicit save thousands of dollars easily in comparison. The most likely problem is that when you finish installing the right to have wrinkles on the ground and on slopes. Even if the film is rated so good you can still easily get the wrinkles in your ship if you do nothave the ability to diagnose the problem and adjust according to the liner. A professional installer uses the experience to finish for the best possible guidance in the form, where you just wing on what you see at that time. At worst, you are not able to lose all the wrinkles and have to live with the results. The benefit is that until you are satisfied with the result, then the project has been successful for wrinkles cosmetic and not affect the poolWater holding capacity.
Tools needed:
Utility knife with blades longer
Garden hose and nozzle
Brush
Paint scraper / metal edge flat
Boiler
Residential Cleaning 5 hp Wet / Dry vacuum
Stiff bristle broom shop
Soft bristle broom shop (optional)
Submersible Pump
Phillips screwdriver, medium
Phillips screwdriver, large
Screwdriver
100 'diameter flexible band (sometimes two)
These elements are so common thatWe hope that you will already have or be able to borrow from friends and family. If you do not have one of these tools and can not borrow from someone you know, you know you can from the hardware store for less than it costs to buy to rent. Compiled on a personal note, if you can not put together objects, such as screwdrivers, broom, garden hose from each tank and you know you should throw a pool party when you have finished your deposit and draw some new and morevarious acquaintances.
Materials needed:
30 mil vinyl covering with a dark print (border optional but recommended)
25 wooden posts separated from the source
2 rolls of standard tape full
1 can of penetrating oil, WD40
You can draw galvanized steel grate
1 can be made of galvanized steel base (optional)
Skimmer plate and new gasket
New round seal and front plate
Washed sand (depending on the condition of the floor)
Vermiculite or zonolite(Depending on the condition of the floor)
Type 10 / Type 1 Portland cement (depending on the condition of the floor
The size of the pool
Must take the first step will be, is your pool for a new liner, which are produced and measured to you. This process can take a minimum of two weeks in the last year or up to 6 weeks or longer during the spring and summer. The extent of the liner goes on a model provided by the company that you order the liner. The linerMeasurement model is intended to take the shape of your pool and considering the range of length, width, orientation and angle.
The presentation is simple, with the exception of determining the radius of the corners in your pool.
The radius of the area varies from ninety degrees, an angle at an acute angle, to meet two straight walls, corners within four feet, which are gradually along sweeping curves. As part of your degree, you will be requireda measure of the circumference of the upper edge of the pool and this measure is called double check the steps that make the liner manufacturer. In combination with any form of pool perimeter of each ray of a measure is certainly associated with it. Still to be safe, you should be all the evidence that the supplier will make available to understand how to read to measure the pool according to their needs. The same measurements are taken100 with 'bandwidth flexible knives, you need to rectangular pools and two for all other types A and B to make plot points.
The only difficult measures, the depth of the pool and the slopes, if you measure a pool filled with water. Connect a keyring with a few keys on it or something with zero weight at the end of the measuring tape. Having someone with a stick on the middle of the pool to be on deck and stood up, while a second person throws the knife over the tapePol The person with the pole would be on the deep end of the poles are above the water, while a second person is the launch pad and take appropriate measures. You can locate the tape to the deepest part of the basin and slowly let the weight pull the tape on the bottom of the pool. Once ashore, you can adjust the height to measure the current level of water and then in a separate measurement of the water level to the point where the coating in the hookCoping strategies to help you in your entire depth of the deep end.
All measures should be taken in the pool as accurately as possible and to avoid rounded, if necessary, that too much food.
Having too little food (a very low degree) will help to ensure that the insert fits well overall because it will tend to adapt. In this regard, the measures only in the pool, you should manually manipulated, is the depth in the deep part of the pool. Through a single measure,deduct 2 "from the bottom all the deep end only. This will ensure that your ship goes well in his place and avoid excessive coating material and folds in the pool. This is a great trick to use the party to get a good fit Warranty cosmetics.
After completing all measures, it is extremely important that this process is repeated and re-measure everything. If your measurements are off, then you could get the installation unhappy days. If itTheir measurements of the coating manufacturer wants to confirm with you that have been examined and the deposit is in production.
Before ordering the covering, you need to choose your model of liner. Everyone has an opinion on this, but there is only one simple rule you need to know - dark coating, water can absorb more than seven degrees Fahrenheit heat caused by sunlight alone on a pool of brilliant. Since you are interested in saving money, this is a benefit that cancan not be overlooked. All new cover look good when they are installed - go to those who help pay for them over the next year off your heating costs. Shops swimming pool are the real champions of vinyl color for you - often the same colors and patterns you can order online if you want to see the color in person instead of on the computer monitor.
Installation Timeline
The installation of the coating should be done in a short period of time. There is a riskwith an empty pool, so as to leave the empty pool as soon as possible when installing the new covering.
Emptying the pool
Leave the pool with a submersible pump or fuel pump driven. A garden hose submersible pump is empty three days a week for a pool, where a diver two empty "pool pump will be empty in 1-2 days. A gas pump driven with a 3" or 4 "exhaust can your pool as small as now, but are difficult to obtainor two feet below the water. How do I download the pool with a garden hose to wash the walls and the floor below. This little tip makes a big difference in how dirty and disgusting, see the next step to take, especially if your pool is green and big. Please note that any electrical device uses electrical GFI must be protected by a pool - no exceptions. Pools and electricity are not a good mix as the slippery slope along a recipe for disaster. Do not take chances and make sureunderstand electrical safety when working around water.
Remove the protective Old
The coating will be cut into pieces and rolled aside. Start on the floor on the wide, flat and cut into long strips about four meters. After a section of the old coating, roll it on the end and let it sit on the pool wall and drain the excess water before transport. Be very careful, because the vinyl is very strong and gives you cutting edge to cut the paper, such as cuts,are sure to get a bad infection. If you are removing sections of the line, which are very old or dried, the film will have a tendency to break and shatter like glass. Liner in this state is broken and throw sharp pieces, causing serious injury. Great care is to follow when removing the old finish off the deal, because you do not want to damage or stretch the existing coping strategies, or you may find the need to replace your face well. For the coating from the track to useLift and pull method, it is easy to slip coating and smooth. Do not force this step or the risk that your address - Finesse is the key.
Remove plates and gaskets
When you cut to remove much of the old coating just to seal the coating and the coating was removed after all. Check each fitting and determine the orientation, the new gaskets were installed before dismantling. The required orientation changes from poolbeam and manufacturer to manufacturer is the best solution for the same configuration that existed before you install it to your pool. You can take pictures of disassembly that can help you later if you forget to go where the seals. Each valve has three possible locations for seals behind the cladding at the top of the liner, or both shoulders and on your deposit. You can also follow the instructions provided with your new faceplates and gaskets. MakeHere are all the screws and the front plate, they came from. If the screws are rusty or difficult to remove the sign on the wall with permanent markers, which suggests, so that you can later deal with them were. It 'important that you do not snap off screw heads so be careful that screws do not seem to want to quit.
Check the walls
With the water away from the store that you can examine for the first time and really taken to assess the condition of your pool. Themust be free of rust and cracks on the walls and floor and damage free of any foreign substances or sharp edges of the liner. You can find the areas on the walls of the tank where there are circles of rust in various places. Each of these areas is a place where you had a small leak hole in your ship. All rust must be scraped off the walls with a trowel or spatula.
Control soil
The floor is cement mortar, cement, vermiculite, sand or compressed. The sand is easierto determine how to leave traces in it, as you walk. It may seem a slight compression of the crust have water weight, but investigation will show that there is no sand. If you have sandy soil, then you must be careful if you do your cleaning and maintenance before you hang the liner. The sand is easy to hide sharp objects. To moisten the transformation of sand and then with water and trowel smooth. When you have a concrete floor look and feel like vermiculite and cement.You can access vermiculite for its determined resistance to compression.
Vermiculite concrete is much lighter and much less than traditional concrete. If you indent the floor with the heel then you have vermiculite. If you have specified, it is clear in its toughness and puncture resistance. A screwdriver can be pushed directly from the vermiculite, but do not penetrate the concrete. All cracks and contradictions in the bottom of the pool must be repaired before hanging upliner. You have cracks in the soil with material that your soil to repair the original. Fix sandy soil with sand, vermiculite, vermiculite and cement concrete. Mixing these two materials from the soil material, damage can ultimately lead to separation of the lining in the future.
Wall & Floor Wash & Brush
When you begin the final preparations before you hang the liner is necessary to wash and brush the entire pool from top to bottombetween the walls. Be sure to sweep the deck, such as your first step to beat further contamination in the pool after cleaning them to avoid. Sandy-ground pools must be checked and cleaned thoroughly and slowly adding new sand in areas that are difficult. Vermiculite concrete pool will be cleaned with a hose and brush from top to bottom. They will then pump the water that collects in the bottom of the deep end. Once you've finished washing and rinsing thebegins the process of taping the seams
Tape all seams and perimeter coping
If the coating is placed in the pool will be a void behind the ship until it clicks into place suck. To be able to do this, you must close all strip appears in the swimming pool, air would leak and prevent this process. You will see evidence of this from the previous installation is likely that adhesive or adhesive tape. The point is to bring together all sections of the wall from top to bottom with a singleBanda tape. Masking tape can be used, but the results are better with adhesive tape. In addition to the walls, you need to tape the size of the pool, where the direction will meet with the top of the pool wall. The walls must be perfectly dry to prevent sticking the tape.
Vacuum any debris
You can not be too careful with this step can result in damage as the debris left in the pool. A stone the size of a pea would be like a baseball that was under the liner that you see on the leftAfter installing the new coating. Even if you have watered the pool, you should vacuum the entire pool from top to bottom. If you have a lot of small fragments found at the bottom of the pool will then stop this process and wash and brush the pool again.
Set of gaskets and bolts
You need to spray WD40 or penetrating oil the bolt holes of all the plaques in the pool. Each hole is rusted bolt, you must immerse in oil and insert and remove the screw a couple of timesTo delete the thread. Vacuum to remove all the screw holes do not sand or dirt on the bottom of the hole. Skip this step, especially with a floor drain or may not be able to masks of the seals when to tighten a screw to the bottom soon. They will then again all the screws in their holes where they can go with almost no power. All screws that any sharp edges smoothed them or be omitted, because it is the piece of line, if you pull the sheet over it. Theircould also take a small amount of Vaseline on each of the heads of the screws to facilitate low friction when the film goes over the bolts. The time to leave the screws is available, which allows you to find the right position for the screw head when you install the risers on the film. Take a digital photo of each bolt and seal swimming direction. This can help if you are unsure of what later in the installation of the faceplate.
The hangingTransatlantic
That's it. Make sure it is a sunny day and warm, even hot, as this will help with the installation of the coating. Installation on a cold and cloudy day, this process is much more difficult if not impossible. You will soon see that hanging the same coating is only a small part of the project. The vast majority of the time needed to install a new slide to your pool, is to prepare the walls and floor. If the pool is absolutely positively perfectclean and there are no sharp objects, tool boxes or anything that can blow into the pool on the pool deck, it's time to bring the liner into the pool. Dolly to open the film over the edge of the bottom and the box without damaging it or the casing. Lift and slide the film into the lake by her against the wall as it falls. Liners are surprisingly difficult to manage and difficult. Some strong hands to support a great help for that day.
Once the coatingout of the box you can not jump more and put out of the pool without the shoes and check the presence of sharp foreign bodies. If no tool or around the pool or on your person to work with the coating. Many professional installers only work with bare feet in the pool at work with a lining. Open the cover and span across the shallow end. You may or may not be able to stickers that are placed on an ocean liner, where the bottom and cold water. They aregoing to take a portion of the container and pick it up and go straight to the deep end to start the opening of the coating. We will work to end the two corners flat and leads them to identify their general location, such as to open the bottom to continue.
To hang the liner in the track, is the pearl of the liner once ninety degrees and slide the heel of the address directly. The weight of the coating with one hand you are able to direct the pearl to its resting positionPlace in contrasts. Keep the heel in place, you can release the weight of the coating. The liner will pull straight down the heel and the friction of the transaction and use leverage to keep the ship in position. You may find that the ship has a tendency to jump out in areas that have already been installed. The older and more worn out you are, the easier the finish jump out of his seat. To support holds the covering in place you can pegs of wood, previouslyhad the springs removed. The pins are a small cone in one direction and a bowling alley in the other aggressive. Use the tongs to lightly lined wedge in place while you continue to install portions of the liner.
They will start at the corners bottom and work your way short on the wall of the lower part. Really analyze the surface and the end wall corners to get the best seats for the linings. Once you take the long walls of the pool is not necessary adjustmentsmust be made, requires much effort. If the edge of the pot at the end on both sides of the pool, you will begin the process of hanging the liner in the deep end is reached. This step requires two people and four is even better. It will start at the edge of the lower part and a part of the coating is carried out every two or three feet on the long wall. It 'better to take the ship into the arm that carries the weight, while with the other hand, a section of the putliner in place, one or two meters in length the same. Obviously security is a real problem with this passage from falling forward in the pool could be fatal. If this step with each carrying four people in a position of three points to stay in contact with the ground, despite the progress on the road towards the cold wall.
Once you feel that you have the deep corners around the place you can go to the bottom and install the lining in the distance all around the pool.The more one is in place, the easier it is to put the rest in Note that if you can install the lining in the deep end is not the one from inside the pool. Once the coating is in place just go to the bottom to make adjustments to do before installing the vacuum.
The vacuum installation
Now you have to suck the air behind the cladding. You can make a $ 3,000 installation of vinyl liner vacuum, or you can just use a regular run of the mill $ 100Wet / dry shop vacuum. Five horses model is required for the suction and the filter paper is removed from the vacuum for the duration of its use. The suction tube can damage must be completely clean and free of sharp points and the coating. They tape around the end of that ass behind the lining to be inserted to wrap any sharp edges. The cover is firmly against the vacuum tube to press especially at the end of the tube to make sure that it is notbe able to cut the liner. It may be useful to apply a small amount of Vaseline on the tip of the nozzle for easy removal to facilitate later.
They feed the tube down through the top of the skimmer in the deck. The pipe will snake from above and through the mouth before going down behind the coating. They want the end of the tube about two feet from the top of the pool deck. Next you need to get a piece of cardboard that have a hole in the middle, the voidHose fits through. The goal is to have the box with tape on the tower bridge over the skimmer with a hole in the middle, where the suction pipe to come. The suction pipe should be on all sides to be glued to cardboard and a seal to ensure airtight as possible. If there is a slotted second in the pool skimmer to be sure of this tape and make sure that no air can get through it. If everything looks good you are ready to start sucking the air behind the cladding.
WhenSuck the air behind the cladding and the gap can be seen immediately, the ship begins to pull back into place. If you do not have a good grip or lose somehow the air does not hold back the film. You should take three to five minutes to take most of the air behind the cladding. If you are not visible on most of the air after five minutes of air leak somewhere, far away, you may need to review your preparation for the pool and to find out where the air. Go
The coating
When the air is pulled behind the line, you have to go down very deep and start to manually change the soil to get wrinkles. A piston can be a good tool to help you attack the coating and the work of the folds are made. This is where the skill and experience come into play. Without the completion of some of the changes say the liner in a position to develop wrinkles, after the pool fills with water and the needvisited in order to avoid unsightly wrinkles now and in the finished product. If excessive wrinkles, especially in places like both sides have the long slope of the pool, so you may need the guidance of the new coating. An expert eye on where a fold is to watch and judge how to move the ship in order to reduce or eliminate wrinkles. As an amateur, you need access to some determination and trial and error, to ensure that the best solution possible to leave for your ship. You can try toTurn off the vacuum and allow air behind the rear cover and then stay with one or more people in strategic places on the film to hold it in position until the vacuum takes over. The long slope from the bottom tends to move in the deep end from the weight of the lining hanging. This can cause wrinkles on both sides of the statement pool at the end break down into the cold surface. Try to keep the cover in place and then stands on the edge of the lowerHold the film instead. You should be able to bend in this great way.
Start filling the pool
Make sure you are satisfied with the coating in the form, before the water is the removal of water as a real pain at this point. If you are satisfied with the coating, and you have 95% or more of the wrinkles on the pool you are ready to start the water. The pipe must be clean and free of sharp edges that could cut the liner. Most of the end of the tube are removed, sharpcrushed or pulled or held together by staples. Fill these types of tubes going anywhere near the pool. Buy a new tube, if necessary. The tube will fall into the deep end can be left on the side of the bridge and rest in the ground. You do not want water that falls, as this color fade in your ship where the water effects. Just fill the vacuum continues to run, until you have at least a foot of water at the bottom before turning off. This isusually during the night for one night. It 'absolutely essential that the gap is not closed for any reason, after the water has begun to have. When the vacuum is turned on for some reason you find that the flat end of the course are drawn from the deep end and you have to download the pool and start over.
Pulling Vacuum
If you are between 12 "-16" of water at the bottom, you can turn off the vacuum and removes it from behind the coating. You will feel thata lot of pressure on the tube, and you must shake gently to remove it. Be patient with this step, because it requires a lot 'of patience and skill - not strength. If the water level is too high you get off is not able to remove the tube without lowering the water level. If you've ever wanted a lesson on how heavy water is then attempting to remove a hose when the water level rose and covered the tip of the nozzle. It's not that we do not gauge the tube, is aMatter, not a stir in any direction with any method or amount of force you feel. Turn off the vacuum would be too early to get into the cover and pull deep in the final result. Be careful not to damage or interruption of the skimmer seal as you remove the hose from the vacuum. Once the void left to fill the pool, until there were two feet or more away from water at the bottom.
Start
Once the pool is full, you can vote on the traffic andStart enjoying the new pool. In a first treatment of shock in 1-2 cups of granulated sugar, chlorine, dissolved in a bucket before you drain the pool away.
