Vinyl Liner Floating, Bulging Walls in Inground Pool

[FormerBromineUser]

Hello, Wapak. I am sorry for your troubles!!!

We had the same storm and my liner floated too. Wrinkles everywhere: sides and floor. I worked like crazy, but I now have NO wrinkles. Took me a whole day and I am still muscle sore! There is HOPE, but it's work.

While there is still floating (water under the liner) get in the pool and push the wrinkles/bulges towards the edges/sides of the pool. Use your feet (gym shoes can help) to push. A squeegee can help push towards the wall/floor junction. Do the floor first. The squeegee is especially useful with the wall wrinkles by standing on the outside edge and pulling up towards you. Many wall wrinkles can be pushed up by hand from within the pool; work bottom up. Use a clean plunger or suction cups to pull the tough ones out. Avoid creating bigger wrinkles by moving away from them in small increments.

If it is floating significantly less now, pull an edge of the liner away from the coping and put a hose between the walls and the liner to re-add water causing more floating. Weird, I know. Just enough to get enough float so you can push the water to the edges. Once the water receeds, you have to do this to get the wrinkles out. Then? Repeat the above process.

I hope by buldging you just meant big bubbles and not a structural bulge.

I will edit the above after it posts, but want to get a response out ASAP. Look at the thread and not the email to get my complete answer. Time is of the essence. Once wrinkles get larger with a lot of liner in them, they are tough to budge.

See also: http://www.troublefreepool.com/threa...r-Big-Wrinkles