Kayak pools

jross · #1 05/09/08, 05:56 PM

We are demolishing out "lifetime" Kayak pool, because of some mechanical damage and other failures, all of which are, or should repairable. A new liner and water walls will cost around $2000 or so. The mechanical part that failed is not available, but I could work around that with some creative rigging..Considering future energy prices we thought it would be more economical to just scrap it. Evidently the "lifetime" warranty meant the lifetime of the company, not the pool, since they went out of business. They are back in business now as "The New Kayak Pool co., and of course will not honor the warranties from the original company. We paid as much for this pool twenty years ago at the same cost as an in ground pool, but giving the high water table here, felt a quality above ground would be more feasible. I will have to say with the problems that occurred, it was an easy to maintain pool and now that I am dismantling it, a mostly well engineered pool.. I am curious if anyone else was caught in the same situation with Kayak.

pickapeppa · #2 05/09/08, 06:14 PM

We have a Kayak and really like it. This will be our fourth year with the pool, and I can honestly say it was worth the money we paid for it. When we considered the cost of buying any other pool and adding the deck to it, it ran about the same price as the Kayak pool, but the quality wasn't there. It is well made. It took us four days, dawn till dusk, to assemble it ourselves, but it wasn't hard to do at all. Just time consuming.

Anyway, I've heard there are some people who got caught between the two companies. I'm thinking we bought ours with the new company. The way they work the lifetime warranty now is through depreciation. They give you the cost of the liner, deck, whatever, at it's value whatever year in age your pool is. So if you've had your pool for 20 years, there wouldn't be much value they'd offer you at that point any way.

toomb68 · #3 05/09/08, 07:37 PM

i put up a kayak pool last year. it was free..as in you take it down you can have it....the pool itself is 14 years old. it is in amazingly good shape. went down easy and went up easy. all i did was replace the liner. i hope i have the same longevity as the previous owners had. the company was pretty helpful as well i thought.