Water under liner ?? Oh boy - what now?

[cleancloths]

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.

[jtnaylor]

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.

[waste]

Check out http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthr...light=wrinkles for my usual advice and also the 'plunger method'

[jtnaylor]

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.