How do you get wrinkles out of inground pool?

Answer 1

wrinkles in the liner are impossible to remove after the pool is filled. It's a loosing battle. Only two options. #1- if the wrinkles are small just enjoy the pool. Next time you fill the pool have the kids work the wrinkles out as you fill it. #2- If the wrinkles are "over lapping" drain the pool and start over. The water bill is much cheaper than a new liner. Good Luck hope this will help. R.B.

Answer 2

Wrinkles in Swimming Pool LinersHere is advice:

• I ended up with a few large wrinkles in our new IG pool. We had a bad winter and a wet spring. The water table rose and left wrinkles. I waited for a good rain to bring the water table up a bit. I then gently used a wooden handled red rubber toilet plunger. I plunged right next to a wrinkle and gently pulled up and away. Took some time but a lot less then a liner reset from the pool place by me ($525). Worked like a charm.

• What I did is to heat the pool to about 92 degrees or higher to make the liner softer. Then, I used my rubber "broom" on the squeegee side and started smoothing from the center toward the edge. Note: my wrinkles were not tightly pinched together so I had some movement still possible. I got the rubber "broom" from one of those home shows where they demo it as a better broom for carpets and floors. Mine has a straight edge opposite the bristles that acts as a squeegee. The whole edges are a soft rubber that won't scratch the liner, and I used care in the operation to make sure nothing got ripped.

• You can try to remove them with a broom, squegee, or your foot. The only way to do it right is drain the pool,use a big vacuum cleaner between the liner and the pool frame and let the vacuum do it's work. Then make sure that ground water doens't get between the liner and the base during the winter. I had to construct a french drain all the way around the pool and pump ground water all winter to keep this from happening. (Built pool on under ground spring, I think).

• You can actually pull the vinyl liner away from the coping and use a vacuum smoothing out the wrinkle - this is the way that pool are initially installed - not a big problem - don't worry.

• You might try using a regular bathroom type plunger. We recently had a new liner placed in our pool and the guys who installed it told us that we could do that if we ever got a wrinkle.

AnswerIf it is fairly new liner empty the pool put a blower between the liner and outer area to lift the liner, Then reverse the process. While deflating in your stocking feet push pull and tug gently to get the wrinkles out. Kinda like making a big bed.

Answer 3

Above ground pool? First, it's almost impossible with the water in it. The water is too heavy. So, drain water down to appropriate level. Remove the top rails and liner keepers one or two at a time. Pull up on the liner and get as many creases out as possible. Replace rails and keepers ase you go. note: You won't get all the wrinkles out and the longer they've been there, the harder it will be. On the floor of the pool, if you have more then 7-8 inches of water in it, you won't be able to pull the wrinkles out. Water is too heavy.

If you have had the liner in there for a short period of time and the creases or wrinkles are on the floor, I would drain the water down to about 1 to two inches of water in the liner. Get inside the pool with bear feet and grab the liner with your feet pulling the wrinkles to the edge of the pool wall. The weight of the water that is left in the pool will help hold the wrinkles out while you pull them to the wall. Once you have gotten all or as many of them out as you can then you can refill your liner. If the liner has been in there for a long time it will be impossible to remove all the wrinkles due to the liner being shaped that way for an extended period of time.

If they are on the wall you would have to drain the water and remove the top rails. Move around the outside of the pool pulling down on the liner on the outer top edge of the pool. This will help to bring the liner higher up the wall and help pull the wrinkles out. You then would do the same thing listed above for the floor.

If you have a beaded liner and the wrinkles are on the wall this means your cove at the inside bottom of the wall, between the wall and liner, may be to high. To fix this you would have to drain the water all the way down, pull the liner back from the wall, exposing the sand underneath the liner, and "cut" the cove down some or remove some of the cove, to reduce the height. Return the liner to the wall and add about 2 inches of water across the entire bottom of the floor. Then you can start pulling the liner with your feet like earlier, removing the wrinkles. NOTE you still might not be able to eliminate all the wrinkles.

Answer 4

This is a really hard thing to do, especially if it is full of water. The best way is to monitor it as it is filling and pull/tighten the liner as it fills up. Keep the edges tight but not secure and let the weight of the water pull it down into the contours. You should always keep the edge retainer a bit loose as it is filling so the liner does not stretch out. I am guessing you want to know how to do it when it is full. I have done it but it took quite a while, most of it spent underwater. What I did was to go under and move the wrinkle inch by inch toward the nearest edge by pulling it in the desired direction taking into account for the direction of the wrinkle. The wrinkle may travel in a sideways direction depending on how the slack was gained. Once you get it to the side, work it up the edge to the top, then undo the top clamp and pull the extra over and reapply the clamp. Sometimes while trying to remove one wrinkle you will make another, it is because the bottom is uneven and the liner has quite a bit of weight on it.

Answer 5

== Is the water in?== Once the water's in, you're cooked.