We have received a quote to fiberglass the pool for $12500 and don't really want to spend that much. As it is a cement pool underneath the liner can we pull off the liner and then patch up any seams in the cement and paint it?

Thanks.

Cement pools with vinyl liners are often not 100% water tight, that's why you have a liner. The vinyl is the issue and should be patched or replaced.

Thank you. We have patched it. If that doesn't work, my husband is very handy, and can do concreting of pathways etc. Is the pool able to be sealed with cememt in the joins or is that virtually impossible?

Regards
Kathryn

I have worked on municipal pools that were cement and they were 99.99% leak proof but a pool designed for a liner may have never been designed to be leak proof. If your liner, which is repairable and replaceable, is in tack there will be no water leakage. A vinyl liner is far easier/cheaper to patch than concrete.

I would replace the liner or go with the fiberglass. We had the same problem and chose to fill in the pool and covered it with grass. We had ours for 25 years and the cement (vermiculite) was so deteriorated that our other choice was a fiberglass insert (12,500), redo the vermiculite add new liner, steps concrete etc, at about 12,000. Since we didn't use the pool much anymore we decided to fill it in and we are now looking at hot tubs. But I wouldn't try to patch the concrete and paint it, I suspect you will have a lot of problems with algae and stains which would severely increase your chemical costs.