Vinyl Liner Floating, Bulging Walls in Inground Pool

[FormerBromineUser]

That's super!!! I have read your post several times and I am not understanding something.

You were siphoning off water into your ditch, but where were you pulling the water from? Did you pop the liner out of the coping? It sounds like you had it in your skimmer? What am I not getting?

[JimK]

That's super!!! I have read your post several times and I am not understanding something.

You were siphoning off water into your ditch, but where were you pulling the water from? Did you pop the liner out of the coping? It sounds like you had it in your skimmer? What am I not getting?

I believe Wapak was pulling water out of the "ditch" and putting it in the pool.

[Wapak]

Basically, i shovelled out a small area in the rocks which surround my concrete pool deck just with my hands, i say ditch but it was more likr a small hole. Water pooled immediately in this, i stuck the end of vacuum hose in the small gathering of water. Well it sucked water for about three hours, and my liner while this was working immediately began to go back to proper place. As i noticed this, i bagan to work any wrinkles i saw out with ny hands from bottom to top of liner walls.

The water i was vacuuming from this small ditch/hole i actualky ran thru filter and i was putting into the pool, and true to physics, my pool water did not rise. I think it simply transfered the water that was behind the liner to the pool. This seems to have increased the pressure back to pool water which then pushed the liner back to its position.

I did not remove the liner at all from its track but this seemed to transfer all the water that was behind my liner, to the pool.

[FormerBromineUser]

I think I understand now. Good job!!!! Very impressive solution! i am so glad that the liner went back into the right places. I was concerned cause it looked like there might be some lateral shifting.

How long were you in the pool today?

Is there enough give behind the liner to remove the last small spots?

Maybe your next job is to dig in some drain tile from your "ditch" area to somewhere lower???