cheap polymer vs high-quality polymer
The use of cheap types of polymer walls can lead to catastrophic failure in a pool, due to fracturing.
Wonder Pool builds permanent swimming pools and thus, only uses the highest quality polymer walls.
Wonder Pool builds permanent swimming pools and thus, only uses the highest quality polymer walls.
Q: What are the differences in cheap polymer and quality polymer walls?
A: There are many, but the four main differences are thickness of the wall, amount of plasticizers, structural bracing, and (most importantly) full-virgin material.
Q: What does full-virgin material mean?
A: Raw material that has never been previously melted is referred to as virgin. Manufacturers of cheap polymer walls recycle their defective products by grinding them into pellets and remelting for use again. They sneakingly refer to their product as virgin if the remelted material is kept under 50% of the finish panel.
Full-virgin means that remelted material is never allowed to be used. A quality polymer wall is always full-virgin.
Q: Why is full-virgin so important?
A: Cracking can happen on cheap polymer due to thin walls, lacking plasticizers, or poor structural bracing, but it WILL eventually happen where remelted material meets virgin material. This will never happen with quality full-virgin polymer walls, due to it being the same continuous virgin material.
Q: Are high-quality polymer walls available online?
A: As with most high-quality manufacturers, they prohibit their products from being sold on the internet. They are only available at select "brick and mortar" companies. This ensures that legitimate career professionals are installing their products and not just a "pickup truck pool guy" who may be doing roofs or drywall next month.
Q: The cheap polymer walls have a warranty. So, my investment is safe...right?
A: Not really. When the cheap wall fails, the manufacturer will send you a new cheap panel. You are responsible for the cost of replacing your concrete deck, vinyl liner, plumbing, pool bottom and all of the labor costs involved!
It's better to just choose a quality polymer wall system that will never fail.
Q: Why would pool companies use the cheap polymer walls?
A: They cost the pool company considerably less than quality polymer walls and most homeowners don't know the differences until it's too late.
A: There are many, but the four main differences are thickness of the wall, amount of plasticizers, structural bracing, and (most importantly) full-virgin material.
Q: What does full-virgin material mean?
A: Raw material that has never been previously melted is referred to as virgin. Manufacturers of cheap polymer walls recycle their defective products by grinding them into pellets and remelting for use again. They sneakingly refer to their product as virgin if the remelted material is kept under 50% of the finish panel.
Full-virgin means that remelted material is never allowed to be used. A quality polymer wall is always full-virgin.
Q: Why is full-virgin so important?
A: Cracking can happen on cheap polymer due to thin walls, lacking plasticizers, or poor structural bracing, but it WILL eventually happen where remelted material meets virgin material. This will never happen with quality full-virgin polymer walls, due to it being the same continuous virgin material.
Q: Are high-quality polymer walls available online?
A: As with most high-quality manufacturers, they prohibit their products from being sold on the internet. They are only available at select "brick and mortar" companies. This ensures that legitimate career professionals are installing their products and not just a "pickup truck pool guy" who may be doing roofs or drywall next month.
Q: The cheap polymer walls have a warranty. So, my investment is safe...right?
A: Not really. When the cheap wall fails, the manufacturer will send you a new cheap panel. You are responsible for the cost of replacing your concrete deck, vinyl liner, plumbing, pool bottom and all of the labor costs involved!
It's better to just choose a quality polymer wall system that will never fail.
Q: Why would pool companies use the cheap polymer walls?
A: They cost the pool company considerably less than quality polymer walls and most homeowners don't know the differences until it's too late.
"Our clients are savvy, well informed consumers and choose Wonder Pool Company because we only use the highest quality polymer walls to create trouble-free permanent swimming pools."
