Now what!? Fixed the holes, pool collapsed!

[badutahboy]

has anything like this ever happened to an IG vinyl pool? I have always heard that the water acts as part of the structure of the pool. With all the cross bracing and cement behind the walls of the pool, you would think the vinyl liner would rip out of its coping track first?

has anyone experienced or seen a vinyl pool fall apart in the same manner?

Vinyl in ground pools (at least the one we used to have) have a cement structure to them. We did the same thing our first year in the house (drained the pool for winter) and when we re-filled it in the spring, our liner had shrunk... It just pulled away from the cement wall. We drained it again, replaced the liner, and that was it.

In short, my answer is... it probably can't happen with an in-ground pool.

[CanuckPool]

So it sounds like it would be more a liner damage that occurs in an IG pool as oppose to the structure.

[badutahboy]

So it sounds like it would be more a liner damage that occurs in an IG pool as oppose to the structure.

Correct, at least in my experience, but I'm not a voice of experience in pool construction. It's possible that IG vinyl pools don't always have a cement foundation, particularly in states south of the frost belt.