The Endless Flexibility of Vinyl Liner Pools

Vinyl liner swimming pools are custom-built and constructed from durable, non-corrosive materials like polymer and galvanized steel pool walls. These walls form the shape and structure of your pool and are overlaid with a vinyl liner that gives your pool its color and personality.

With proper care and maintenance, the structural walls of an inground vinyl liner pool can last for decades.

A vinyl liner itself will need to be replaced approximately once every 10 years. In ideal settings and when properly taken care of, a vinyl liner can last for more than 15 years. To prolong the lifetime of your liner, avoid splashing any undiluted chemicals directly onto your liner when adjusting your water chemistry levels.

The average cost to install a vinyl liner pool ranges between $50,000 and $150,000. The price tag may vary depending on a number of factors, including size, electrical needs, customizations and any backyard constraints, such as working with rocky or sloped terrain.

Pool coping is the frame around the edge or lip of your pool that a vinyl liner attaches to. It helps cover the aluminum coping track, which serves as the connection point for the actual vinyl liner to hang, securing it in place.

Beyond serving an important function, coping also provides a decorative border around the edge of your pool that transitions to your decking. Although coping and decking are often paired, coping can be both functionally and visually distinct from the rest of the deck.

Latham offers industry-leading limited lifetime warranties on vinyl liner pool structures and a 20-year limited warranty on vinyl liners.

Latham vinyl liner pool walls are crafted from premium materials, built using either corrosion-resistant polymer or galvanized North American steel. Each offers long-term durability with minimal maintenance. We use Latham Graphex polymer panels to construct the walls on our vinyl liner pools. Made from high-impact, corrosion-free rigid polystyrene resin, our polymer pool walls are resilient to a variety of environmental conditions as well as designed to be resistant to thermal expansion, rusting, bowing and deflection. Latham’s Graphex polymer wall systems are made from non corrosive materials to increase your liner life through reduced wall abrasion. Latham polymer wall panels and braces have a lifetime limited transferable warranty. Latham’s steel wall systems complement your vinyl liner pool and offer unsurpassed strength for easy maintenance and increased longevity and versatility. Our G235 galvanized steel wall systems are backed by our lifetime limited transferable warranty.

Vinyl liner inground pools have several key advantages over concrete (gunite) pools. The smooth, antimicrobial surface of a vinyl liner is algae-resistant, requiring fewer chemicals to balance your water chemistry and pH. This makes them easier to care for and cost less in terms of upkeep over time. By contrast, concrete pools require costly resurfacing once every decade. Their rough, porous surface makes them less comfortable when swimming and more prone to algae clinging to their surface. This means more frequent water pH balancing and maintenance that adds up over the lifetime of a concrete pool.

By contrast, a vinyl liner pool has a durable, non-corrosive structure that lasts for decades, covered with a vinyl liner that enhances the comfort of the pool underfoot. A well-maintained vinyl liner can last for approximately 8-15 years. The cost to replace a vinyl liner is a fraction of the cost to resurface a concrete pool. Better yet, replacing a vinyl liner can be an inexpensive way to revamp the look and feel of your pool as your aesthetic preferences change through the years.