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    Default Re: Water under liner ?? Oh boy - what now?

    Okay so I duct taped the liner in place last night before I went to bed because it was supposed to rain and I didn't want anymore water back there.

    Anyone had this happen? I have been trying to search but I keep getting "critical error"

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    Yeah, you guy are getting hammered with the flooding--we're getting the tail end of most of it (Northwest corner of Louisiana) and I'm SICK of everything being wet!!

    I'm no help on the liner issue, hopefully one of the others with some knowledge will pop in soon, but who installed it for you? I would definitely call them out to look at it because it would seem to me that it should be covered under their warranty.

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    Bah yeah the rain is suckin. 10 forcast shows SUNNY AND WARM! Woohoo!

    Called the guy who did the liner - number disconnected so I don't know if he's still in business or not. I'm going to keep looking for him.

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    Last week I had a pipe break and it pumped 5,000 gallons out of my 20x40 IG pool. The liner in the shallow end was lifted by one foot on the right side of the pool and the liner had floated by more than five feet (yes five feet) in the deep end. I figured I was in deep trouble. Fortunately when we built the pool the contractor suggested building a drywell under the deep end because of the high water table. I simply valved it in and turned the pump on. In three hours with me using a wall cleaning brush to smooth the liner down the walls it all fell back in place perfectly. In fact, some small wrinkles I had are gone now. BUT I HAVE A SOLUTION FOR YOU TOO!

    Get a small portable pump (Home Depot or Lowes) that has a hose connect for the inlet. Carefully work the hose down behind the liner where it has come out to the tracks and pump the water out. Once it is all out you should be ok.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cleancloths View Post
    Last week I had a pipe break and it pumped 5,000 gallons out of my 20x40 IG pool. The liner in the shallow end was lifted by one foot on the right side of the pool and the liner had floated by more than five feet (yes five feet) in the deep end. I figured I was in deep trouble. Fortunately when we built the pool the contractor suggested building a drywell under the deep end because of the high water table. I simply valved it in and turned the pump on. In three hours with me using a wall cleaning brush to smooth the liner down the walls it all fell back in place perfectly. In fact, some small wrinkles I had are gone now. BUT I HAVE A SOLUTION FOR YOU TOO!

    Get a small portable pump (Home Depot or Lowes) that has a hose connect for the inlet. Carefully work the hose down behind the liner where it has come out to the tracks and pump the water out. Once it is all out you should be ok.

    Interesting. I'm going to hop in there tonight (man it's going to be cold) and see if I can't move any of the wrinkles around with a brush and maybe a plunger. We'll see how bad it really is.

    Thanks for the reply.

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    Check out http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthr...light=wrinkles for my usual advice and also the 'plunger method'
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    Quote Originally Posted by waste View Post
    Check out http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthr...light=wrinkles for my usual advice and also the 'plunger method'
    I guess I'm going to try and float it first. I tried to work the wrinkles out by hand but that isn't happening. They won't move at all.

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