I'm noticing, too, that the bottom of my intex pool liner (outside) is bowed. The liner is actually touching the bottom of the white poles. Almost like the liner has stretched over time, or possibly because the band is not around the white legs. I wondered about instead of draining the pool and resetting the legs inside the band. I wonder if using ratchet straps would work, I could connect several and tighten around the white poles, right where the band would normally be....?