Steel wall in-ground pool with vinyl liner

That local pool company will be gone in 5 years, you can use that warranty for toilet paper.

Knock $10000 off your offer and call it even.

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Looking to maybe making an offer on a house. It has a fully in ground steel wall swimming pool with a vinyl liner. Looks like a regular pool . Has anyone had experience with these? Advantages and disadvantages? He showed me the warranty. Lifetime warranty on the pool itself and a 20 year warranty on the liner . Local company that's been around a while.

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My parents had a pool like this for about 30 years. They had to replace the liner every 5-7 years (but my dad was a serial over chlorinator), you also occasionally have to replace your pump...all of the piping is under the grout bottom and beneath the sidewalk surrounding the pool. They never had any issues with the pipes. Other than the liners and pumps, they never had any maintenance issues with theirs.

If you get 20 years out of a liner then you have probably set some sort of record.

That is the type of pool I have. Previous owners had it installed. So our situations are similar.

I wouldn't expect to get 20 years out of liner. Maybe 10 if you choose highest mil rated liner.

My pool is small. Only 13k gallons. It isn't difficult to maintain. But it's something you do have to stay on top of. I probably spend 500 per year on chemicals.

What type of filter? Most likely will be cartridge or sand. Sand is cheaper requires less labor, but not as effective as cartridge. The cartridge filters aren't cheap. Throw another 250 per year.

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Pools are really more trouble than they are worth.