We have moles on our property. This pad was recommended so that the moles would not reach the liner of the above ground pool. It fit perfectly, seems durable but only time will tell. It does provide some piece of mind however.

Not cut to a perfect circle, seems thinker as well than what came with my above ground pool, It is not like a thicker rubber pad type thing if that is your thinking but guessing about 5 time better/thicker than what came in with the pool in my opinion, I think it will help keep the pool safer from rocks that we failed to remove before pool setup, not sure about value per cost as of yet

When I first unboxed this product, I was a little disappointed at how thin it appeared. However, after using it two seasons now, I see how durable it really is. This will not provide any cushion under your pool, but it will do an excellent job at protecting your liner. After the first season, we had to take down our pool to level the ground in an area that had sunk. I was amazed that here were no tears in the padding at all. Our ground is full of gravel and small stones, and it is impossible to remove them all. We even had a few larger stones that could be felt from inside the pool, and this padding I'm positive prevented damage to the liner. Highly recommend.

Big box came delivered at my door ,I knew it was my pad for under my liner. My pool installers said nobody used one before like this so it was pretty new to him. It fit the 30 foot round pool I had installed ,we had a little hard time first pulling it out side to side ,it's very light weight, the material was almost felt like.my installor was worried that it would show up wrinkles once the actual liner was in, we couldn't fish the pool in a day so we left with just the pad in place and it got wet and it went in even better than the first day we put it in which was nice... and a lot more easier. We didn't get any wrinkles once the liner went in ,I suggest this very stronger if u r putting in a new pool