It was a beautiful day for dropping liners in Raleigh, N.C. The crew from CPC Pool Works laid the vinyl to this unique pool shape, which incorporates a basketball sports pool connected to a freeform pool by a lazy-river channel all under a single vinyl liner.
Getting a liner measured, fabricated and installed with these intricate curves and hard 90-degree angles was a little bit trickier than your average 12-by-20 rectangle.
“There were some nuances we had to get right,” says LOOP-LOC’s Andres Rojas, the local rep from the company that manufactured the liner. “For example, the depth of the connecting channel that runs between the two pools isn’t a flat, universal height. Instead, it slants and has some unusual angles. The same is true of the step area in the sport pool that has some non-standard angles that were required to achieve the functionality desired by the homeowners.”
But after taking detailed measurements for the factory, he says, it was a fairly straight-forward manufacturing process. Perhaps the most important part was figuring out how the liner would be folded into the box so that it was easy for the CPC Pool Works installation team to unfold and work into place.
“It was a big, heavy, awkward pool liner so making it easy to place in perfect position to snap into the track was key,” Rojas says. “We wanted to avoid CPC Pool Works having to move the liner around or adjust it.
“After deliberating, the factory folks suggested that the liner come out of the box right at the start of the channel so that the pool could roll out to one side into the freeform pool while the other half of the liner could roll out into the channel and into the sport pool. This was genius and worked perfectly with virtually zero need to adjust the liner.”
