IG Package Pools - Vinyl Liners

So your client wants radiused steps, a tanning ledge and waterfall in their pool — and you have to fit it with a vinyl liner. Here are some best practices for measuring and installing that should lessen your apprehension about adding special features to your customers' vinyl pools this season.

More and more homeowners are looking to renew their backyards, and to do so, they're turning to vinyl liners. Here's a roundup of the latest patterns.

This new company is making it a goal to truly recycle materials, like billboard vinyl, which happens to be the same thickness as pool vinyl liners. Can the pool industry embrace such a true form of recycling?

Forget Botox. Package pools are getting a facelift with more versatile options to please homeowners across the board. Here, we see how they've evolved.

Vinyl-liner pools are massively popular among middle-class families, and builders who serve this market stand to make a healthy profit. Here, a few vinyl-liner builders share their insights, tips and techniques for crafting a well-built package pool.

What you find under the vinyl is just as important to a successful pool installation as the vinyl itself. In this story, we peel back the layers and explore the anatomy of a vinyl-liner pool.

Challenging climate conditions didn't hamper builders from crafting the natural-looking vinyl-liner pool this homeowner requested.

Spending patterns indicate that customers are more willing to restore what they have rather than buy new. With existing vinyl-liner pools more common than ever, there's a perfect market for builders at hand: older pools in need of an upgrade.

Package pools are increasingly upgraded with higher-end pumps. We examine the trend.

It's one of the industry's great mysteries: Who exactly designs the vinyl liners we see on showroom floors? Here, we meet someone who does just that.

We take a look at the newest and best-selling vinyl liner patterns in the pool industry.

From shape, pattern options and new features like steps and shelves, package pools are becoming increasingly custom.

In his latest column, Al Curtis of Ask the Pool Guy explains how specializing in a unique style of pool helped set himself apart from other builders.

With new features and add-ons, vinyl-liner pools are getting more advanced with every pool season. We take a look at what's new and trending.

In some parts of the world, thick, welded liners have become a popular renovation technique as well as a surface option for new construction.

Despite a trouble-free installation, some pool pros are seeing bad wrinkles in their liner installations. Why does this happen?

A 60-mil liner wins new fans ​in D.C. renovation project.

Pros explain the virtues of vinyl as a concrete alternative.

Practical advice for top-notch package pool installations.

Semi-inground hybrid pools provide an option for customers living on sloping lots and limited means.

These prefab pools cut construction time by 90 percent or more.

Inground package pools keep pace with both concrete and fiberglass in an increasingly competitive sales landscape.

For maximum life, vinyl liners need good support.

An ode to the best of the best in recent vinyl projects and the builders that brought them to life.