Hello everyone! My wife and I just got a 24' x 52" round pool from a relative. We started putting it up this weekend. I used a laser to shoot in the base and it was within an inch all around. Everything went good until the liner install. We ordered a new overlap liner, as a friend of mine was helping it went great until the last 10 ft or so. I read and seen a lot of videos stating it would towards the end. It took four of us to get the liner over the wall and it had a pressure buldge in that spam like the loner is to small. We took measurements and the top is within an inch of square all around. I am wondering if the company sent the wrong size liner or it was our error. The last picture is the opposite side of the pool where the liner is hanging normal. Any help would be great! Thank you!
24' liner issues
- Thread starter Bwilke
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When they installed my pool it didn't look like that. It was snug, and not pressed against the wall of the pool, but not like the images you show.
Have you tried a shop vac to see if it sucks it to the wall some?
Have you tried a shop vac to see if it sucks it to the wall some?
Besides using a shop vac. you will also want to ensure you are stretching that liner on a warm sunny day.
Yes i tried that, it has a lot of pressure on it. When you press on it its like pressing on a tube filled with air
I'm not 100% sure about overlap liners now a days but I thought they had to be stretched into place. At least that is what I remember when we installed our doughboy pool years ago. It was pulled over the top rail really tight all the way around and as it was filled with water, we had to go around and release a little bit of liner down into the pool, doing so until the seam where the wall and floor met landed somewhere around the cove. Then the top rails were removed and the excess liner pulled taught and tucked in behind itself and the coping strips put on followed by reinstalling the top rail.
Thinking back, that is also how a pool company did the neighbors pool a few years back as well but their liner wasn't tucked back in so you see it all around, tacky, tacky. Lol
Didn't think overlap liners just fit in place like it appears to have been done in those pics???
Thinking back, that is also how a pool company did the neighbors pool a few years back as well but their liner wasn't tucked back in so you see it all around, tacky, tacky. Lol
Didn't think overlap liners just fit in place like it appears to have been done in those pics???
azide999
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It sounds like although you have matched the pattern around the top of the pool, the liner bottom seam has shifted during overlapping the wall. The liner bottom seam should be an equal distance from the cove all the way around when laying flat before installing it over the wall. I just installed liner on my 24' round pool and I worked the tension on the wall around the top until it was about the same, then I shop vacuumed while filling and making minor adjustments. Where you have the highest tension, it might be good to see if you can release the liner maybe along four wall lengths, roll it up a bit and try to pull the base slightly towards that side. Then rehang it over the wall and see if it improves. If it does, I guess keep going until the tension is even all around.
Possibly against the judgement of many here (and others, never get in the liner when installing), I placed my liner from inside the pool using really very special shoes, hahaha! Yes, I cut very thick and large rounded folded cardboard liner shoes which were gorilla taped to my sneakers and worked it from the inside. I was so worried about wrecking my new liner I searched and searched and chose the abovegroundpros method as it was comprehensive in video form. It worked, I have no leaks, no wrinkles - except for the seam tracks in the gorilla pad and liner. The liner matched up quite well at the bottom seam/foam cove about half way up the cove, but not as well as I would have liked because the pool is slightly asymmetrically dished out to 6" or so. The liner overlapped about a foot which I left free because it is under decking.
Note: I could not use the Jamison04 method above, which I have also seen online, because of the decking around the pool which would have made it extremely difficult to do.
Possibly against the judgement of many here (and others, never get in the liner when installing), I placed my liner from inside the pool using really very special shoes, hahaha! Yes, I cut very thick and large rounded folded cardboard liner shoes which were gorilla taped to my sneakers and worked it from the inside. I was so worried about wrecking my new liner I searched and searched and chose the abovegroundpros method as it was comprehensive in video form. It worked, I have no leaks, no wrinkles - except for the seam tracks in the gorilla pad and liner. The liner matched up quite well at the bottom seam/foam cove about half way up the cove, but not as well as I would have liked because the pool is slightly asymmetrically dished out to 6" or so. The liner overlapped about a foot which I left free because it is under decking.
Note: I could not use the Jamison04 method above, which I have also seen online, because of the decking around the pool which would have made it extremely difficult to do.
The thing with patterned over lap liners is you will be higher on one side. You have got to center the bottom and make sure your not twisted and bunched like you are. The seam will ride up the wall in some areas. You should drain that water and reset the liner. Decide where you want the point of entry (ladder) and make the liner even directly across from it. Thats just the way patterned over lap liners are.