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    How to stretch a liner that's fallen out of track and has shrunken badly.

    Before and after pics. btw - the liner is 10 years old but could still take a serious stretching and shrink back into place later. To the left of the skimmer is the deep end (8 feet) - to the right is shallow/wading. It bears mentioning that I had to be very careful around the skimmer...
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    How to stretch a liner that's fallen out of track and has shrunken badly.

    After stretching, the liner is very flappy. But I used small clothes pins to just hold it in place. THe liner stretches back to normal in a day. It looks pristine. Water was still in the "winterized" level - just below the jets. Reason it stayed that low is that water was escaping down...
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    How to stretch a liner that's fallen out of track and has shrunken badly.

    In a nutshell, the screws holding my liner in place rusted out on 2 sides of my pool and the liner caved into the pool. It also shrank badly and you couldn't stretch it by hand enough - even with boiling water. The pool techs who installed the liner took one look and just walked away saying...
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    Life expectancy of pool liner track screws?

    TFP, About 10 years ago, I had the liner in my pool replaced. It's an in-ground concrete pool. 16x32. Salt water. Liner is still in great shape. The techs basically anchored a bunch of 1x2 pressure treated wood planks along the edge of the concrete pool, attached liner tracks to it, and...