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A Pool Pad Provides Essential Protection for Your
Pool Liner
If you’re installing a new above-ground pool or you’re replacing the liner on an
existing above-ground pool, you’ll almost definitely want to install a pool pad and pool cove under the
liner. A pool pad provides an extra layer of protection for your liner against
rocks, bugs, tree roots or anything else that could damage your liner and cause
a leak.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What’s the best thing to put underneath a pool?
A: One of the most important things to put underneath a pool is a
pool pad. The pool pad sits on top of your sand base layer, providing an
additional layer of protection for your liner.
A pool pad is simple to install. After tamping down your sand
base, lay the pool pad on top of the sand. The pad should be cut to fit your pool’s
exact dimensions.
You’ll likely also want to install a pool cove, which helps
prevent the liner from ballooning out underneath the pool wall. A pool cove is
angled and goes around the entire inside of your pool. Pool coves help reduce
stress on the pool liner seams by reducing the amount the seams must stretch
along the bottom of the pool walls.
Q: Is a pool pad necessary?
A: Yes, a pool pad is necessary for an above-ground pool. Pool
pads help to prevent rocks and sticks and other things in your yard from cutting
your pool liner and causing a leak. There are also things inside your pool that
can cut your liner, such as your ladder base. To prevent cuts from your ladder,
you’ll want to get a smaller pool pad that goes inside your pool, between the
ladder and the liner.
Q: What does a pool pad do?
A: A pool pad protects your pool liner against rocks, debris,
sticks and tree roots that can slice the liner and cause an expensive leak.
Pool pads also prevent footprints from forming in the sand base beneath your
pool liner.