Water under liner ?? Oh boy - what now?

[jtnaylor]

So 2 years ago we shelled out the cash to have a new liner installed. Last year I bought a loop-loc cover and installed it myself. I was happy that we were protecting our new liner.

Well it has RAINED and RAINED nonstop for about a month here - floods, etc. One day I noticed water sitting on top of my cover in the middle and not draining. Then it dawned on me that the water had actually gotten up that high. So I went out and started the pump up and drained it down some.

Today I took the cover off and was happy at first - cover did it's job and just some silt on the bottom.

Then I saw it. A whole corner of the cover had come out of the track and it looks like it has a lot of slack in it. If I put it back in it just tries to fall out of the track again.

Then I saw the bottom - wrinkles everywhere. Not huge ones but LOTS of them. My wife and I just stood there feeling sick.

I guess the corner popped off and some water got under the liner. I have NO idea how it left little wrinkles from the shallow end - all the way down to the deep end.

I'm hoping somehow all the massive rains had maybe caused the ground to be so saturated that water was pushing up from underneath and somehow this would correct itself - but I'm about done with that thought. I assume I'm screwed.

Any semi-easy fix I can do here?

Thanks.

[jtnaylor]

Okay so I duct taped the liner in place last night before I went to bed because it was supposed to rain and I didn't want anymore water back there.

Anyone had this happen? I have been trying to search but I keep getting "critical error" :)

[aylad]

Yeah, you guy are getting hammered with the flooding--we're getting the tail end of most of it (Northwest corner of Louisiana) and I'm SICK of everything being wet!!

I'm no help on the liner issue, hopefully one of the others with some knowledge will pop in soon, but who installed it for you? I would definitely call them out to look at it because it would seem to me that it should be covered under their warranty.

Janet

[jtnaylor]

Bah yeah the rain is suckin. 10 forcast shows SUNNY AND WARM! Woohoo!

Called the guy who did the liner - number disconnected so I don't know if he's still in business or not. I'm going to keep looking for him.

[cleancloths]

Last week I had a pipe break and it pumped 5,000 gallons out of my 20x40 IG pool. The liner in the shallow end was lifted by one foot on the right side of the pool and the liner had floated by more than five feet (yes five feet) in the deep end. I figured I was in deep trouble. Fortunately when we built the pool the contractor suggested building a drywell under the deep end because of the high water table. I simply valved it in and turned the pump on. In three hours with me using a wall cleaning brush to smooth the liner down the walls it all fell back in place perfectly. In fact, some small wrinkles I had are gone now. BUT I HAVE A SOLUTION FOR YOU TOO!

Get a small portable pump (Home Depot or Lowes) that has a hose connect for the inlet. Carefully work the hose down behind the liner where it has come out to the tracks and pump the water out. Once it is all out you should be ok.

[jtnaylor]

Last week I had a pipe break and it pumped 5,000 gallons out of my 20x40 IG pool. The liner in the shallow end was lifted by one foot on the right side of the pool and the liner had floated by more than five feet (yes five feet) in the deep end. I figured I was in deep trouble. Fortunately when we built the pool the contractor suggested building a drywell under the deep end because of the high water table. I simply valved it in and turned the pump on. In three hours with me using a wall cleaning brush to smooth the liner down the walls it all fell back in place perfectly. In fact, some small wrinkles I had are gone now. BUT I HAVE A SOLUTION FOR YOU TOO!

Get a small portable pump (Home Depot or Lowes) that has a hose connect for the inlet. Carefully work the hose down behind the liner where it has come out to the tracks and pump the water out. Once it is all out you should be ok.


Interesting. I'm going to hop in there tonight (man it's going to be cold) and see if I can't move any of the wrinkles around with a brush and maybe a plunger. We'll see how bad it really is.

Thanks for the reply.

[waste]

Check out http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthread.php?t=8425&highlight=wrinkles for my usual advice and also the 'plunger method':)

[jtnaylor]

Check out http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthread.php?t=8425&highlight=wrinkles for my usual advice and also the 'plunger method':)

I guess I'm going to try and float it first. I tried to work the wrinkles out by hand but that isn't happening. They won't move at all.