Quote Originally Posted by shadowman View Post
Thanks for the additional detail VG. I understand how it hooks into the coping and the need to fold it back on itself. I just can't seem to get a good enough grip on it with just my thumbs and index fingers. I think you are both right about lowering the water level. I wish I would have worked on it when my PVC joint failed (earlier thread). I guess I was too concerned about getting the filter back up and running. You guys live on the wrong coast. I could use one of you for a neighbor

I gave up for today and went for a swim. I'll get back to this next weekend.
I got time on my hands can you tell?

With that type of short but fairly dipping "outage". Lowering the pool will help. It does for all types of these situations.

Your going to have to "feed" the liner in from either the far left or right. I don't see you being able to lift it up in the middle for example then work you way towards the two sides.

It's not easy, many a day I spent trying to stop my fingers and thumbs from cramping up into the positions I used to pull liners up. I loosened a bottom tooth one time when I let go of one unexpectedly. Gave my self a quick knuckler to the bottom lip.

I had a fairly well off customer hook a garden hose up to his garage hotwater heater (used to wash his cars). His liner had pulled out in multiple places for long stretches due to some unseasonable floods. The water can rise up the wall panels and lift the liner right out. I spent half a day pulling his liner up while lying on the deck soaked in hot tap water. My nipples were worn red and chaffed. Ewwwwwwwww. But we saved it for the remainder of the season and through the next.

When all is said and done shadow. This spot in your coping could a "trouble spot". Something about the lip, coping or liner that causes it to fall out a lot. A small bend in the coping, an imperfection in the liner bead, anything can cause it. Even age as the chemicals wear down small places in each. So what you might want to do is get some "LinerLock" and install it in this one location to ensure it doesn't fall out again, only worse the next time.

LinerLock is a rubbery plastic formed into a "wedge" that can be cut into any length needed.