Doughboy Expandable Liner Choices

by Christa
(Ashland, WI)

We recently purchased a used 18'x34' Doughboy above ground pool. It needs a new liner and I'm wondering if it has to be a Doughboy liner or if it can be a different brand?

We'd like to make one end of the pool deeper, so I'm assuming we must need an expandable liner. The previous owners didn't use an expandable one even though they dug the center of the pool deeper. Is this okay to do? Thanks for your help.



Hi Christa. Any liner that is the correct size will fit the pool. And there are a lot of liners out there that are cheaper than Doughboy brand liners. But I do not know of any liner that is of better quality. You need to asses how long you want the liner to last and how good you want the pool look. That advice is for flat bottom pools.

A deep end pool is a whole different story. I have never installed an expandable liner that fit anywhere near as well as a Doughboy. All other deep end pool liners I have ever used have left the pool with wrinkles. Some were not so bad, while others were terrible. I was ashamed to have installed it, but I did inform the customer before hand. I told them the only liner I would recommend for a deep end was a Doughboy, anything else and there was no guarantee how it would look.

Here is a Doughboy expandable liner being installed.

Expandable Liner Installation

And this page shows another.

Above Ground Pool In Ground