She Crashed In !!!!!!

[matt4x4]

Ok, I'll attempt to answer all questions with this post:

I replied to your other thread extensively - would recommend reading that too - you probably did allready.

Your pool is 33', you can be out over an inch and no problems, so the 1/2" to 1" is completely acceptable.

I can say with confidence that once you empty the liner off and pull it into the right position more appropriately, you will get a lot closer to your walls, the north side looks like it fit very relaxed against the cove and wall judging from the picture, once you adjust it's position as I explained in my text and other post, I'd say you'll have maybe 4" of play there and if you follow my advice and pull the floor outwards as I described when it's got a little water on it, you'll reduce that number to 2". at this point, you'll be swearing at me under your breath since it makes you fingers sore doing that, but you WILL gain a lot of material this way. The time it takes to do that will also help heat and soften the liner.
Think of it this way - 1 small wrinkle easily converts to 1/4" of extra liner on the floor once flat, a larger wrinkle is more like 1/2 inch gained - compare how many wrinkles you see to how many inches you need and you'll have more than enough liner to fill that floor side to side. In the pic with your daughter, I can see SO MUCH available liner, most of those wrinkles are 1-1.5" tall, flattened, they'd gain you 1.5 inches each.
Since it's 5 days of rain, I'd pump it off, fold it in and cover it from any sun (not likely) with a piece of cardboard or something.... I'd worry about wind getting under it if you leave it hanging in there...

When you lay in right the next time, do this: - And make sure you DO NOT have a seam at or near your skimmer/return. I'd hate to see you take it all down again....

Take the sides and fold them onto the floor, grab the side/floor seam and with a person on the opposite end, pull tight, measure, place a piece of electrical tape at the center, do this in the opposite direction, it should give you your center point with an X on the liner.

Now get two people on the outside to hold a tape measure across center of pool, drop a string line at center and put the X under it, remeasure do in opposite direction, tug X into proper place. Recheck this all.
Place a piece of cardboard (protection) down on the X onto which you place a full bucket of water, that should hold it all there, now straighten your liner as best as you can towards the edges.
If it were an overlap, I'd do as Dennis did with the latest install, unforunately you won't have all that excess material at hand.
You can hang the edges in several locations and add a little water - (1") so you can tug the wrinkles out of it towards the ends as I described earlier to you. Once that's done hang the liner fully (without skews as I also described earlier)., then slowly fill, if you notice that the liner needs a little more persuasion here or there, get back inside, and tug from close to center towards that particular corner, it won't do it itself, you have to do it.
once you've got it remove bucket and cardboard underlay, fill, once up about 8-12 inches, you can cut in your return and skimmer if you are happy with the way the walls are now hanging (no skew), if not, readjust as necessary, then cut in return and skimmer, smaller than actual hole by about 1/8". Install fixtures.

I highly recommend hard plumbing shutoff valves at each fixture - about $15 each, you need them many, many, many, many times and you'll be glad that you did it right away.


Shopvacs are handy to help pull it into place and see how it will sit - they help you adjust it close to where you need it to be before adding water.
Duct tape a piace of cardboard over skimmer and return, cut an opening in teh cardboard over return the size of shopvac hose and shove through/seal with tape.