Inground Vinyl Liner Swimming Pool Corners

No different from the various corners within the rooms of your home or office, pool corners are the way straight wall and symmetrical pools change direction. Like many products within the vinyl pool industry, pool corners have developed over time to meet a variety of needs, design criteria or marketing requirements.  In some cases, specific specialty corners have become synonymous with a specific brand.  In other cases, certain types of corners have been created to meet multiple design methods, vinyl pool wall manufacturing techniques and capabilities and most importantly to achieve a better fit of the vinyl pool liner where it is changing direction.

What is important for the best fit is to be able to accurately identify the type and size of corner required for your vinyl liner replacement.

Inground Vinyl Pool Liner Corner Types

Pool Corners typically break down into two broad categories:

Corners

Corners that are a 179 degree angle change or less and typically just referred to as ‘Corners’

Swimming Pool Liner Corner - Square 90 Degree Corner - Top View

Figure 1 – 90 Degree Square Corner

Reverse Corners

Corners that are 181 degree angle change or more and typically referred to as ‘Reverse Corners’

Square Reverse Inground Corner - Top View

Figure 2 – 90 Degree Square Corner – Reverse

Within those two broad categories, pool corners break down into some smaller subsets that make it easier to identify the pool corner type required for your replacement vinyl pool liner project:

  • Corners
    • Square
    • Cut-Off
    • Radius
    • Specialty*
  • Reverse Corners
    • Square
    • Cut-Off
    • Radius
    • Specialty*

*Note:  Specialty Corners are usually specific to a specific brand of inground vinyl liner swimming pool or to meet a specific design need of a specific shape or size of pool.  Specialty Corners are not very common and in many cases are more prevalent in certain geographic markets.

At the inception of the inground vinyl liner pool market, in the late 1950’s, when pools walls were primarily constructed of wood and the vinyl liners were attached to the top of the pool wall in an ‘overlap’ style or method, where the vinyl pool liner wall was taller than the pool wall itself and the excess material overlapped the top of the pool wall.   Typically, the excess or overlap material was stapled to the top of the wooden pool wall before a decorative aluminum coping was ‘snapped’ onto the top of the pool wall for decorative purposes.  Virtually every pool was a rectangle and every pool liner had square corners.   Vinyl pool liner design and manufacturing were in their infancy and liners didn’t fit very well in the square corners of the pool, but that was an issue that was masked by the excess material common to an overlap liner. 

Fast forward to the mid to late 1960’s and the advent of liner bead, a small extrusion sealed to the top perimeter of the vinyl liner wall that attaches to the bead receiver within the pools coping.

Pool Fits Standard Bead

Figure 3 – Inground Liner Standard Bead

The innovation of liner bead was a major improvement to the manufacturing and fit of vinyl liners, however the innovation highlighted the poor fit of liners in pools with square corners, so the race was on to develop different types, shapes and sizes of pool corners to provide for a better fitting vinyl pool liner and there were several:

6 Inch Radius Corner - Top View

Figure 4 – 6″ Radius Corner

6 Inch Cut Off Corners - Top View

Figure 5 – 6″ Cut-Off Corner

Top View 1 Ft Radius Corner

Figure 6 – 1′ Radius Corner

Then in the 1980’s came the marketing push where pool manufacturing companies developed pool corners that both solved for better fitting vinyl liners and provided better a looking corner to market their vinyl liner pool brand to consumers, and there were many, here are a few:

2 Foot Radius Corners - Top View

Figure 7 – 2′ Radius Corner

4 Foot Radius Corner - Top View

Figure 8 – 4′ Radius Corner

Foxx 2 Foot 1 Inch Cut Corner - Top View

Figure 9 – 2′-1″ Foxx Cut-Off Corner

Long story short, there are many different types of inground pool corners for vinyl liner pools and you are going to have to identify which types are on your pool.  The good news is that Pool Fits has developed great tools that make it easy to identify both the type and size of your pool corners with a complete library fully dimensioned corners in three images (Top-Front-Iso) for each type and size:

2 Foot Radius Corners - Top View

Figure 10 – Top View

2 Foot Radius Corner - Front View

Figure 11 – Front View

2 Foot Radius Corner - Isometric View

Figure 12 – Iso View

Standard Corners

Square Corners

Square 90 Degree Corner - Top View

Square 90 Degree Corner – Top View

Square 90 Degree Corner - Front View

Square 90 Degree Corner – Front View

Radius Corners

6 Inch Radius Corner - Top View

6 Inch Radius Corner – Top View

6" Radius Corners - Isometric View

6 Inch Radius Corner – Front View

6" Radius Corners - Isometric View

6Inch Radius Corners – Isometric View

1 Foot Radius Corner - Top View

1 Foot Radius Corner – Top View

1 Foot Radius Corners - Isometric View

1 Foot Radius Corner – Front View

1 Foor Radius Corners - Isometric View

1 Foot Radius Corner – Isometric View

2 Foot Radius Corner - Top View

2 Foot Radius Corner – Top View

2 Foot Radius Corners - Isometric View

2 Foot Radius Corner – Front View

2 Foot Radius Corners - Isometric View

2 Foot Radius Corner – Isometric View

2'-1" Radius Corner - Desjoyaux

2 Foot 1 Inch Radius Corner – Dejoyeaux – Top View

2 Foot 1 Inch Radius Corners - Dejoyeaux - Isometric View

2 Foot 1 Inch Radius Corner – Dejoyeaux – Front View

2 Foot 1 Inch Radius Corners - Dejoyeaux - Isometric View

2 Foot 1 Inch Radius Corner – Dejoyeaux – Isometric View

2'-6" Radius Corner - Pool Tech | Excalibur

2 Foot 6 Inch Radius Corner – Top View

2 Foot 6 Inch Radius Corners - Isometric View

2 Foot 6 Inch Radius Corner – Front View

2 Foot 6 Inch Radius Corners - Isometric View

2 Foot 6 Inch Radius Corner – Isometric View

3" Radius Corner - Top View

3 Inch Radius Corner – Top View

3 Inch Radius Corners - Isometric View

3 Inch Radius Corner – Front View

3 Inch Radius Corners - Isometric View

3 Inch Radius Corner – Isometric View

Top View 2 Foot Radius 45 Degree Corner

2 foot Radius 45 Degree Corner – Top View

2 foot Radius 45 Degree Corners - Isometric View

2 foot Radius 45 Degree Corner – Front View

2 foot Radius 45 Degree Corners - Isometric View

2 foot Radius 45 Degree Corner – Isometric View

3'-10" Radius Corner - Clayton Lambert

3 foot 10 Inch Radius Corner – Top View

3 foot 10 Inch Radius Corners - Isometric View

3 foot 10 Inch Radius Corner – Front View

3 foot 10 Inch Radius Corners - Isometric View

3 foot 10 Inch Radius Corner – Isometric View

4 Foot Radius Corner - Top View

4 Foot Radius Corner – Top View

4 foot Radius Corners - Isometric View

4 Foot Radius Corner – Front View

4 foot Radius Corners - Isometric View

4 Foot Radius Corner – Isometric View

4'-2" Radius Corner - Desjoyeaux

4 Foot 2 Inch Radius Corner – Dejoyeaux – Top View

4 Foot 2 Inch Radius Corners - Dejoyeaux - Isometric View

4 Foot 2 Inch Radius Corner – Dejoyeaux – Front View

4 Foot 2 Inch Radius Corners - Dejoyeaux - Isometric View

4 Foot 2 Inch Radius Corner – Dejoyeaux – Isometric View

Cut Off Corners

6 Inch Cut Off Corner - Top View

6 Inch Cut Off Corner – Top View

6 Inch Cut Off Corner - Isometric View

6 Inch Cut Off Corner – Front View

6 Inch Cut Off Corner - Isometric View

6 Inch Cut Off Corner – Isometric View

Wilkes 8.5 Inch Cut-Off Corner - Top View

8 1/2 Inch Cut Off Corner – Top View

8 1/2 Inch Cut Off Corner - Isometric View

8 1/2 Inch Cut Off Corner – Front View

8 1/2 Inch Cut Off Corner - Isometric View

8 1/2 Inch Cut Off Corner – Isometric View

2 Foot Cut Off Corner - Top View

2 Foot Cut Off Corner – Top View

2 Foot Cut Off Corner - Isometric View

2 Foot Cut Off Corner – Front View

2 Foot Cut Off Corner - Isometric View

2 Foot Cut Off Corner – Isometric View

2 Foot 10 Inch Cut Off Corner - Top View

2 Foot 10 Inch Cut Off Corner – Top View

2 Foot 10 Inch Cut Off Corner - Isometric View

2 Foot 10 Inch Cut Off Corner – Front View

2 Foot 10 Inch Cut Off Corner - Isometric View

2 Foot 10 Inch Cut Off Corner – Isometric View

Specialty Corners

6" to 3" Radius Corner - Buster Crabbe

6 Inch Radius On Top to 3 Inch Radius at Bottom – Buster Crabbe – Top View

6 Inch Radius On Top to 3 Inch Radius at Bottom - Buster Crabbe - Isometric View

6 Inch Radius On Top to 3 Inch Radius at Bottom – Buster Crabbe – Front View

6 Inch Radius On Top to 3 Inch Radius at Bottom - Buster Crabbe - Isometric View

6 Inch Radius On Top to 3 Inch Radius at Bottom – Buster Crabbe – Isometric View

8 Inch Cut Corner at Top to Square Corner Bottom Corner - Polynesian - Isometric View

8 Inch Cut Corner at Top to Square Corner Bottom Corner – Polynesian – Top View

8 Inch Cut Corner at Top to Square Corner Bottom Corner - Polynesian - Isometric View

8 Inch Cut Corner at Top to Square Corner Bottom Corner – Polynesian – Front View

8 Inch Cut Corner at Top to Square Corner Bottom Corner - Polynesian - Isometric View

8 Inch Cut Corner at Top to Square Corner Bottom Corner – Polynesian – Isometric View

2 Foot 1 Inch Cut Off Corner - Fox - Top View

2 Foot 1 Inch Cut Off Corner – Foxx – Top View

Foxx 2 Foot 1 Inch Diagonal Corner - Foxx - Isometric View

2 Foot 1 Inch Cut Off Corner – Foxx – Front View

2 Foot 1 Inch Cut Off Corner - Fox - Isometric View

2 Foot 1 Inch Cut Off Corner – Foxx – Isometric View

Reverse Corners

Square Reverse Corners

Top View Reverse Square Corner

Square Reverse Corner – Top View

Square Reverse Corner - Front View

Square Reverse Corner – Front View

Radius Reverse Corners

6" Reverse Radius Corner Top View

6 Inch Reverse Radius – Top View

6 Inch Reverse Radius - Front View

6 Inch Reverse Radius – Front View

6 Inch Reverse Radius - Isometric View

6 Inch Reverse Radius – Isometric View

2 Foot Reverse Radius Corner - Top View

2 Foot Reverse Radius Corner – Top View

2 Foot Reverse Radius Corner - Front View

2 Foot Reverse Radius Corner – Front View

2 Foot Reverse Radius Corner - Isometric View

2 Foot Reverse Radius Corner – Isometric View

2' Reverse Radius 45 Degree - Top View

2 Foot Reverse Radius 45 Degree Corner – Top View

2 Foot Reverse Radius 45 Degree Corner - Front View

2 Foot Reverse Radius 45 Degree Corner – Front View

2 Foot Reverse Radius 45 Degree Corner - Isometric View

2 Foot Reverse Radius 45 Degree Corner – Isometric View

2'-6" Reverse Radius Corner - Top View

2 Foot 6 Inch Reverse Radius Corner – Top View

Front View 2 Foot 6 Inch Reverse Radius Corner

2 Foot 6 Inch Reverse Radius Corner – Front View

Iso View 2 Foot 6 Inch Reverse Radius Corner

2 Foot 6 Inch Reverse Radius Corner – Isometric View

3'-10" Reverse Radius Corner - Top View - Clayton Lambert

3 Foot 10 Inch Reverse Radius Corner – Top View

3 Foot 10 Inch Reverse Radius Corner - Front View

3 Foot 10 Inch Reverse Radius Corner – Front View

3 Foot 10 Inch Reverse Radius Corner - Isometric View

3 Foot 10 Inch Reverse Radius Corner – Isometric View

4' Reverse Radius Corner - Top View

4 Foot Reverse Radius Corner – Top View

4 Foot Reverse Radius Corner - Front View

4 Foot Reverse Radius Corner – Front View

4 Foot Reverse Radius Corner - Isometric View

4 Foot Reverse Radius Corner – Isometric View

Cut Off Reverse Corners

6 Inch Reverse Cut Off Corner - Top View

6 Inch Reverse Cut Off Corner – Top View

6 Inch Reverse Cut Off Corner - Front View

6 Inch Reverse Cut Off Corner – Front View

6 Inch Reverse Cut Off Corner - Isometric View

6 Inch Reverse Cut Off Corner – Isometric View

Top View 1 Foot Reverse Cut Off Corner

1 Foot Reverse Cut Off Corner – Top View

1 Foot Reverse Cut Off Corner - Front View

1 Foot Reverse Cut Off Corner – Front View

1 Foot Reverse Cut Off Corner - Isometric View

1 Foot Reverse Cut Off Corner – Isometric View

Specialty Corners

3 Inch x 3 Inch Reverse Mitered Corner - Top View

3 Inch x 3 Inch Reverse Mitered Corner – Top View

3 Inch x 3 Inch Reverse Mitered Corner - Front View

3 Inch x 3 Inch Reverse Mitered Corner – Front View

Top View Rerverse Mitered Corner - 5 x 5

5 Inch x 5 Inch Reverse Mitered Corner – Top View

5 Inch x 5 Inch Reverse Mitered Corner - Front View

5 Inch x 5 Inch Reverse Mitered Corner – Front View

6 Inch x6 Inch Reverse Mitered Corner - Top View

6 Inch x 6 Inch Reverse Mitered Corner – Top View

6 Inch x6 Inch Reverse Mitered Corner - Isometric View

6 Inch x 6 Inch Reverse Mitered Corner – Front View

12 Inch x 12 Inch Reverse Mitered Corner - Top View

12 Inch x 12 Inch Reverse Mitered Corner – Top View

12 Inch x 12 Inch Reverse Mitered Corner - Front View

12 Inch x 12 Inch Reverse Mitered Corner – Front View

2' Reverse Radius Corner - 45 Degree - Top View

2 Foot Reverse Radius 57.7 Degree – Top View

2 Foot Reverse Radius 57.7 Degree - Front View

2 Foot Reverse Radius 57.7 Degree – Front View

2 Foot 1 Inch Reverse Cut Off Corner - Top View

2 Foot 1 Inch Reverse Cut Off Corner – Top View

2 Foot 1 Inch Reverse Cut Off Corner - Front View

2 Foot 1 Inch Reverse Cut Off Corner – Front View

2 Foot 1 Inch Reverse Cut Off Corner - Isometric View

2 Foot 1 Inch Reverse Cut Off Corner – Isometric View