How to Install Doughboy Liners

Installing a pool liner used to be a complicated process best left to professionals. This is not true of Doughboy pool liners, which are designed to be installed by pool owners without much fuss. Whether installing a liner for a new pool, or replacing a liner, the fact that the liner uses the pool water itself as the installer means no supplies, no special training or certification, and hardly any time are required to install a Doughboy liner.

Tape
Push broom
Water

Instructions

- 1
  Make sure the pool is dry and clean.
- 2
  Tape up any sharp edges that could tear the liner.
- 3
  Use the push broom to smooth the sand bottom of the pool.
- 4
  Open the liner, and gently stretch across the pool, it should hang well past the edges of the pool.
- 5
  Begin filling the pool with water.
- 6
  Adjust liner, every ten minutes or so, by walking around pool and lowering as necessary.
- 7
  When pool is four to six inches from full, stop.
- 8
  Remove rails from top of pool edge, a few at a time, tucking the liner into place as you make your way around the perimeter of the pool. Replace rails.
- 9
  Fill the pool with the remainder of water. The weight of the water should make the liner lie taut and unwrinkled.

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