Help Help Help!!!.....liner out of track all around deep end of pool!!!

[Watermom]

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you! Hopefully Waste will have some good suggestions.

[waste]

Hey, Heather - it's nice to 'see' you again, sorry it isn't under better circumstances.

As long as you're able to get the bead back into the track, use Popsicle sticks/ or whatever else you can fill the track with to keep it there. I'm not sure that the liner is the problem - I fear that maybe the track has eroded in the deep end, please check and get back to us. If you could post some pics of the receiver before you tuck the liner back in, it might enable us to suggest a more permanent solution.

[heatherc]

I am pretty sure that that is what has happened to the track...last year
when the pool co came to fix the liner pull in deep end, they used lots of liner lock to hold it in....it has been a problem area for several years now. I have accepted that the end is near for this liner anyway(approx 20 yrs old) no more has popped out and the pool is still usuable. ...albeit scary looking in the deep end!

All I need is another 8 wks to get through the season and then we will get it replaced next spring.

My question now is can that tracking be replaced in an older pool? or will the same thing happen when I get a new liner?...is there some sort of retrofit tracking they can add on or something?

thanks for the replies...it had been a long hot day yesterday and I was beside myself!!!

[waste]

Heather, it indeed sounds like the receiver has rotted out

There is 'side mount' receiver that would save you the trouble of ripping up the deck to replace the bad section. It's $10+ per foot and has to be ordered in 10' lengths...

I'm thinking that you might be able to Crazy Glue (tm) the liner in a couple places, as long as you're gonna replace the liner next season and get some new receiver.

I'd like to know how and why the existing receiver failed so as to try to determine if the rest will eventually fail. As long as you're getting a new liner, it's best to make sure that the track will last as long as the liner.

[heatherc]

I am thinking we will use good old duct tape to hold liner up to the wall ...will look crappy, but a temporary measure till replacement. Thanks for the tip about the side mount receiver...glad to see there is such a thing. Thanks again for all the help!!

[heatherc]

...so I MacGuyver'd the liner in the deepend and all is well to get through the season. We ended up gluing vinyl patch sheets to liner then attaching them to deck with good old duct tape...it aint pretty but it is serving the purpose!!! I got my estimate for new liner and new tracking and we will be ready to roll come spring!! Thanks for all your suggestions...love this forum!!

[AnnaK]

I'm impressed, Heather! If my liner ever comes loose I know I'm going to freak out. In reading through this thread you stayed calm, did what had to be done, improvised, tried different things . . . but you stayed calm. Guess whom I'm going to shout out to if my liner pops out?