I hired a company that agreed to measure based on me buying the liner through them. The guys who measured did it in less than 20 minutes. Literally just slapped the tape measure with no precision at all; this is a concrete wall inground pool so the corners are not laser cut... I noticed a fairly decent sag in the line when the measured the depth. Then the quote came in, they want $7,500 for the GLI liner (40x20' roman with angled corners not rounded) and another $7,000 install fee and of course can't start until next season.
Had a pool company come out and measure, got fairly drastic difference in measurements (off by 1-3inches in places). Ghosted me before giving quote.
I measured, got completely different measurements from the other two guys (again off by 1-2 inches in places).
I found the serial number from the old liner (Merlin) and called the company that installed it in 2010. The drawing doesn't even match my pool properly (they are missing two whole angles in the bottom hopper and measure 7' where I measure 5'. When I called Merlin they claim that's the same liner that's specced to the sheet but I can't figure out how the heck it went in because it has to be stretching as much as 3-4 inches in places. The guy at Merlin was extremely difficult to work with and told me not to trust the drawing but can't even answer why it wouldn't match what's in the pool itself.
Now i'm back to square one, nobody left to help measure and I am doing it myself. Trying to pull measuring reel tape across the pool without sagging is difficult. I can literally pull different strengths and get 15 different measurements. To make matters worse my pool is not perfectly square. One side measures 19' 8 3/4" and the other side is 19' 10". I am honestly thinking about saving about $12k and buying like 3-4 of the absolute cheapest liners with different measurements until I get it right knowing that's just literally going to be thrown away in hopes to actually make progress towards measurements.
This is an absolute nightmare. I replaced my own septic tank and installed a new drain field in a sleet/hail wind storm by myself wearing gym shoes and it was WAY easier than this.
Had a pool company come out and measure, got fairly drastic difference in measurements (off by 1-3inches in places). Ghosted me before giving quote.
I measured, got completely different measurements from the other two guys (again off by 1-2 inches in places).
I found the serial number from the old liner (Merlin) and called the company that installed it in 2010. The drawing doesn't even match my pool properly (they are missing two whole angles in the bottom hopper and measure 7' where I measure 5'. When I called Merlin they claim that's the same liner that's specced to the sheet but I can't figure out how the heck it went in because it has to be stretching as much as 3-4 inches in places. The guy at Merlin was extremely difficult to work with and told me not to trust the drawing but can't even answer why it wouldn't match what's in the pool itself.
Now i'm back to square one, nobody left to help measure and I am doing it myself. Trying to pull measuring reel tape across the pool without sagging is difficult. I can literally pull different strengths and get 15 different measurements. To make matters worse my pool is not perfectly square. One side measures 19' 8 3/4" and the other side is 19' 10". I am honestly thinking about saving about $12k and buying like 3-4 of the absolute cheapest liners with different measurements until I get it right knowing that's just literally going to be thrown away in hopes to actually make progress towards measurements.
This is an absolute nightmare. I replaced my own septic tank and installed a new drain field in a sleet/hail wind storm by myself wearing gym shoes and it was WAY easier than this.
