Sink hole, pool not level...

[hrsdennis]

Hi Anthony, I use a push broom to smooth the sand and I then do the entire liner install from outside of the pool. I drape the liner over the pool top rails and let the water take out the wrinkles. The liners turn out perfect and no footprints.

Best of luck, Dennis

[It's an Oasis]

You are going to need an overcast day, a transit or laser level, and one person to help you. Drain her down. Lift your uprights up one at a time and place concrete pavers under them. Basically, re-level your whole pool.

Get about 1 ton of sand and pull your liner back to the skimmer/return side. Re-shape you bottom with the center being 3 inces lower than the outer bowl. Broom smooth. Don't forget to put a cove around the base of the wall. Hang your liner from the outside of the pool reaching in. Hook a shop vac up to the base of the skimmer and start adding water. Take your pool broom and hit it against the liner at the base of the wall to work out the wrinkles. The wrinkes will settle at the margins of the water as it rises. Keep circling the pool working out the wrinkles until the water has reached the base of the wall.

To handle the runoff water that is probably washing out you base you need to install a french drain to divert the flow of water.

[posguy]

OK, Dug a trench about 16' x8" on thew low side, filled with qp, compacted with a plate compactor, used foam cove and smooth out the sand as best I could.

By the way, the plate compactor was great with the qp, however, it was unuseable in the sand, kept gouging the sand, I'll try a sod roller.

Question is, can I use pieces from the old liner over the sand for additional protection for the new liner? After this repair, im seeing more pebble/rocks than I want.

Thanks
Anthony

[sevver]

I would use the foam pad, I like mine and would use it again. Your sand should not have rocks in it, I am sure that they may settle in but that is quite a gamble.
As for rolling the sand or compacting it, sand is compacted, it really does not go down much more that it already is, the best way to compact sand is to flood it with water, displace the air, as the water seeps out, it pulls the sand down with it and settles it. I have gotten all of the dirt back into the hole alot of times doing this. Ever notice how when you dig a hole all the dirt never fits in it again?

Are you a Point of Sale guy? I am too for now.

[posguy]

Thanks for the water tip. Yes, I sell Point of Sale. Why for now?

Anthony

[sevver]

I may return to construction, the money is alot better there, I am playing it out to see where it takes me, I install and upgrade POS systems now, I enjoy it, the hours are nice, but the pay blows big time. The thing that is hard, I am happy doing it. But I don't have any money, so I am not happy. Life.