Beaded liner tearing at the bead

[DonW]

My liner is tearing at the top of the bead where it is inserted into the track. Has anyone else experienced or heard of this? I just finished installation of the pool a month ago. It is a Swimline liner, and their warranty is for 25 years, on the seams! I've got a feeling that I'm gonna get jerked around on this, but I won't know until Monday. When I initially filled the pool, the liner at the bottom was probably 10 to 12 inches away from the wall. As the pool filled up with water the liner acted like a water baloon and expanded to fit the wall. I was extremely nervous as the pool was filling as I have heard of liners taking down the wall down in this manner. So, was the liner too small and this was a stress point, and who's to say if this won't happen again? Now instead of thinking about winterizing, I have to go back to a place I JUST left! This is the pool that shouldn't have been, and I'm just forcing the issue.

 

[JohnT]

Sure sounds like the liner is too small.

 

[DonW]

When installing the liner I had thought so too. I can't tell the liner manufacturer that it was too small because that would void the warrranty. They have a drawing of "correct" and an "incorrect" way on their warranty sheet, where correct is the liner touching all sides and the floor of the pool, and incorrect with a void between the wall of the pool and liner. In their eyes I obviously installed it incorrectly. But, I can't make the pool larger than what it is because the bottom track dictates the size.

 

[JohnT]

The depth of the cove can have a big impact on how the liner fits.

 

[DonW]

I used Gladdon foam cove. Swimline's drawing of correct & incorrect shows a pretty sizeable cove.