As of yesterday, our deeply disappointing (ie: beautiful but always leaked) mosaic tiled pool is no more. B***** tiles now replaced with a handsome sandy coloured liner (which the pool guy says will look tres, tres cool when it's full of water and the sun is shining). No more anxious dawn checks before the guests are out of bed, no more daily topping-up, no more pallet-loads of additional chemicals - what will I do with my time?
The liner looks frighteningly pristine at present. But, my question is: how can we keep it looking this way? Hints and tips from experienced lined pool owners would be most welcome. Horror stories on here about sun-cream damage are keeping me awake at night!
Newly lined pool - maintenance tips please!
Break into their gites on arrival and steal their sun creams and oils 
No seriously, I have a sand coloured liner, and it's going into it's second season, still looking as pristine as last year ... It does look cool with water in (see my site). I don't have too much trouble as I have a shower next to the pool inviting all guests to wash off their suncreams before they dip - and I also have a cover with a permanent UV treated lid, so this helps. I have an inevitable dark line which appears from time to time, but if you keep on top of it (two cleans during last season with a special water line spray) it goes quickly. With the spray, my supplier gave me a handy little scourer on a handle, which makes it very easy.
Sit back, soak up the sun and enjoy!
No seriously, I have a sand coloured liner, and it's going into it's second season, still looking as pristine as last year ... It does look cool with water in (see my site). I don't have too much trouble as I have a shower next to the pool inviting all guests to wash off their suncreams before they dip - and I also have a cover with a permanent UV treated lid, so this helps. I have an inevitable dark line which appears from time to time, but if you keep on top of it (two cleans during last season with a special water line spray) it goes quickly. With the spray, my supplier gave me a handy little scourer on a handle, which makes it very easy.
Sit back, soak up the sun and enjoy!
Find a beautiful sandy beach and look at the sea ... Saint Malo is the example they gave to me when I was chosing the colour.-
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Jimbo wrote:Jim, they used to be available mainly at specialist pool places but now most of the supermarkets sell them too. Can't remember the brand names but there are several, they are OK, not brilliant. One of my liners is coming up for it's 13 th summer, it now has a bit of a line round the edge but not much. Sun tan stuff hasn't been a problem in that pool as our immediate family are the only ones to use it ( did have 25 people in there at one time last year though ) and we don't gunge ourselves up with sun stuff.KathyG wrote:S
Thanks Caroline for the info. Any more details about the 'special water line spray' please?
It's called Aqua Clean Nettoyant Ligne d'eau "Le nettoyant surpuissant des traces noires et de calcaire"Jimbo wrote: Thanks Caroline for the info. Any more details about the 'special water line spray' please?
It contains Hydroxyde de sodium et de potassium - Corrosif - Nice
- I clean with it whilst I was in the water, but it doesn't seem to have corroded me!I tried every single pool liner cleaner on the market and nothing got rid of the stains on my liner.
In desperation I tried paintstripper, which didn't work either, and then lastly I bought some very rough sand/glasspaper and spend 2 days last autumn using that. It didn't get rid of all the stains, but got off the worst of it. The remaining stain was caused by a vicious green sun protection which someone used on their baby a couple of months after I'd installed a new liner. Nothing works for that one.
When I change my liner I will get a sand coloured one. I'm sure it is much better at disguising sun protection stains than a blue one.
In desperation I tried paintstripper, which didn't work either, and then lastly I bought some very rough sand/glasspaper and spend 2 days last autumn using that. It didn't get rid of all the stains, but got off the worst of it. The remaining stain was caused by a vicious green sun protection which someone used on their baby a couple of months after I'd installed a new liner. Nothing works for that one.
When I change my liner I will get a sand coloured one. I'm sure it is much better at disguising sun protection stains than a blue one.
Sadly, I don't think a sand coloured one will make any difference (in fact I think it may be worse than blue). Do you have notices explaining that sun cream wrecks the liner? Or do people, just not give a s**t?la vache! wrote: When I change my liner I will get a sand coloured one. I'm sure it is much better at disguising sun protection stains than a blue one.
I ask people to wait at least 20 minutes after applying sun protection before entering the pool, and also to use the solar shower I provide, but ultimately it isn't their problem, so I suppose it is the latter.CarolineH wrote:Do you have notices explaining that sun cream wrecks the liner? Or do people, just not give a s**t?
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With reference to this and your posting in another thread, we decided last year to buy expensive sunloungers with mesh fabric. Of course I'm now obsessed with removing every mark! At the end of last season I found that I was able to shift white/yellow spills of suncream (from blue mesh) by using a kitchen degreaser spray, waiting five minutes and then pressure washing. Just pressure washing didn't seem to work.Jimbo wrote:... Spent a couple of frustrating hours yesterday pressure washing sun loungers to try and remove sun cream stains - without too much success.