Vinyl Liner Floating, Bulging Walls in Inground Pool

[FormerBromineUser]

Did you use the add link icon? You paste the URL in there. I was able to see them though on the email notification direct to photobucket, but I can't enlarge them, and no one else would be able to either.

You have no wrinkles on the bottom?

Have the sidewalls shifted laterally? Hard to tell with the small pics.

Those ARE bulges! That's a lot of water. I do think you will need to pull a small section of coping out to release some of the water before it gets under the bottom.

[Wapak]

http://s1148.photobucket.com/user/ri...c.jpg.html?o=0

http://s1148.photobucket.com/user/ri...z.jpg.html?o=1

http://http://s1148.photobucket.com/user/richldorsett/media/20150619_081053_zps43jbcugz.jpg.html?sort=3&o=2

Lets see if this works...I was using the add image icon, this time i am using the add link icon...hope the pics will now display properly, thanks!

[FormerBromineUser]

Well, now people other than me can see them too by following those links.

Are those bulges still filled with water? I think you will need to pull the coping out above one and see if you can push the water up and out.

Are there any wrinkles on the bottom?

[Wapak]

I have had some of the liner floating up on specifically on the shallow end bottom, just like a small linear bulge here and there. and some of these bulges have appeared on my side slopes to the deep end, but as I try to push the 'bubbles' they just move to a different location when i go over with the pool broom,

Now in my deep end, at the very bottom near the drain, i have always had a couple small wrinkles that appeared after a winter bout 4 years ago. but they have never been much of an issue and are barely noticeable once pool is opened.

If the liners have moved some, they have not affected the position of the bottom corners, the corners, even under my return jets seem to still be staying in place.

I have not messed with it much, I attempted to think the first day, if I eased the pool broom over from top to bottom i may push the water back to the ground surrounding pool, but that seemed to only move the water to different location so all i have done is just tried to keep my pool full so that the weight of the water would help keep as much as i could in place.

I will try to un attached the liner in a small spot and try to push some out the top as soon as it stops raining!!! yes raining again today...

thanks again,

[FormerBromineUser]

Well, update when you can. In the meantime, I would do everything you can to keep water from getting under the bottom, so I wouldn't push down. Sides are much easier to fix!

[Wapak]

You bet. Thank you so much for your help, I will update here with any progress!

[JimK]

We've had our liner float/bulge a couple times due to big rain events. Fortunately we didn't end up with any wrinkles; the liner settled back into place as the surrounding ground water receded.

Formerbromineuser gave some great suggestions for dealing with wrinkles.

I can only suggest to do your best to guide the liner back into place as the groundwater recedes (hopefully soon).

[FormerBromineUser]

The more I think about it, the more I am thinking that most of the water got behind the liner through the coping and not primarily from groundwater. I am thinking that because you have very few bottom issues.

Do you think your water level got above the coping liner seam during the storm?

If so, I am thinking that as soon as the rain slows down a bit, you need to reduce the amount of water behind the walls before it gets under the bottom.

Leave a bit in so you can still shift the liner to get it back in place. Maybe two people working. One inside pushing/lifting up, and one outside slowly siphoning (or even adding if you need more shift).

[Wapak]

Sorry for all the spelling errors in my previous post...my phone is not the best to type on but i hope that explained what i did a little better!

The photo shows the end of my vacuum hose with no vacuum head attached, laying in the puddle of water which formed in the small hole/ditch i dug with my hands in the river rock surrounding my concrete deck. the other end of hose was attached into my skimmer!

I worked on easily working the liner and wrinkles for about 2-3 hrs while the filter pumped ...i stopped when it got darker and the hose was no longer drawing water from my hole/ditch.

Yep i felt the small ones yet to work out and as of right now they werent a hard type crease more like a bubble. Im going to get those out in am. They are located in the two corners of my return jets.

A drain tile is definetly something i will do in future. I know the rain we had was really rare but i sure would like to avoid this in the future!

[FormerBromineUser]

No worries about the typos! And no worries about your explanation either. Jim understood you; it was just me. It's one of the reasons I asked Jim to take a peek at your thread. I'm not a real handy kinda gal so my brain doesn't always do mechanics easily... I aced all my chemistry and physics classes, but always struggled in lab. One of my degrees is in Geology, and the course I found most difficult was Geological Engineering. I am babbling now....

Let us know how it goes in the morning. They are forecasting 2 more weeks of rain here in the Chicago area. Lordy!