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Posted by babs2424 (My Page) on Tue, Apr 22, 08 at 20:25
| We live in nothern New Hampshire and want to install a swimming pool. We like the idea of a fiberglass but have heard problems with them popping out of the ground. Our lot is very dry with great drainage. I would like to hear opinions on vinyl liner, gunite, or fiberglass. |
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| waterworldpools.com has good information. |
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| Popped pools seem to be a bigger problem in areas where there is a high water table and the pool is left empty too long. If you have a low water table it shouldn't be an issue. Gunite has a better bond to the earth than fiberglass, but even a gunite pool can pop if the conditions are bad enough. There's a pic that circulates the forums every once in a while of a gunite pool in CA that popped because it was left empty and they had some really heavy rains hit. But this is a pretty unusual occurrence. |
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| totally agree with the post above. Any pool can pop out of the ground. We purchased our pool from Waterworld and are thrilled. They care, they are honest and have a great product and stand behind it. We put ours in last year and really enjoy it. I have pics and longer explantions in prior posts if you search fiberglass and lsbarkley. Hope that helps. Lsbarkley |
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| I know of someone with a vinyl liner pool and is in the process of filing a lawsuit now. She has a mudhole in her backyard and is $38,000.00 in the "hole", so to speak. I've seen alot of fiberglass pools around here. They all seem to be good when they are new, but when they get older, they all seem to have surface deterioration. My mother in laws pool is starting to chip. Hers is 14 years old. There is also another fiberglass in this area that I have seen latetly that is so bad that it needs to be replaced. That pool is around 20 years old. I really don't know if it can be resurfaced or not. I went to waterworldpools and saw this statement that they make as fact. "Fiberglass is seventeen times stronger than gunite, never needs to be resurfaced, and there is no costly liner to replace." This is just not true from what I have seen with my own eyes. I knew that when I even started thinking about a pool in my yard that it would be gunite. There was just no decision to be made. I know that my pool builder also has photos on his website of pool remodels where they have actually gone in and gunnited old existing fiberglass pools. That tells me alot right there. I know that plaster or diamondbrite or a pebble finish can deteriorate too, but, altleast it can be redone. |
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