Hello! We had been given a 27’ x 54” deep AGP from my cousin. Set up was tedious but went well but now I’m having panic attacks!
I am attaching pictures of our wall. The first pic is how the wall looked without water (and even with the first 5-10” in). The next pics are all what I woke up to this morning!
- there is almost 20” of water in pool
- we are filling with hose
- beaded/Jhook liner
- 3” of sand and then layer of styrofoam
- liner is flat along bottom but air still between liner and steel wall
- had shop vac sucking air as we filled pool during day…although liner never seems to “suck” to the walls as others have mentioned
I have scoured this site and the internet for advice and this is what I have found:
1. Posts/lower rails in affected areas may need to be dug lower - not sure about this because the patio stones for posts were levelled with a transit and current water level measures equally all the way around
2. Cove may need to be added - although previous owners did not have any and so we did not put any down
3. Liner needs to stretch in hot sun. So we may have messed up by letting the hose run overnight, when things cooled. When we first put in the liner and started to fill, it was 32 degrees Celsius (I’m in Ontario, Canada)…so like 89 Fahrenheit. It was hot on my feet and like butter. The walls had a slight pull/buckle from the posts but nothing major. We got maybe 10” in during the day. The next 10” were overnight - probably at 20 Celsius and this morning…well you can see in the pics. If the problem was the weather/temperature, do I backtrack and drain half the water before adding more on a hot day? Or do I continue adding from now on the next hot day?
I am attaching pictures of our wall. The first pic is how the wall looked without water (and even with the first 5-10” in). The next pics are all what I woke up to this morning!
- there is almost 20” of water in pool
- we are filling with hose
- beaded/Jhook liner
- 3” of sand and then layer of styrofoam
- liner is flat along bottom but air still between liner and steel wall
- had shop vac sucking air as we filled pool during day…although liner never seems to “suck” to the walls as others have mentioned
I have scoured this site and the internet for advice and this is what I have found:
1. Posts/lower rails in affected areas may need to be dug lower - not sure about this because the patio stones for posts were levelled with a transit and current water level measures equally all the way around
2. Cove may need to be added - although previous owners did not have any and so we did not put any down
3. Liner needs to stretch in hot sun. So we may have messed up by letting the hose run overnight, when things cooled. When we first put in the liner and started to fill, it was 32 degrees Celsius (I’m in Ontario, Canada)…so like 89 Fahrenheit. It was hot on my feet and like butter. The walls had a slight pull/buckle from the posts but nothing major. We got maybe 10” in during the day. The next 10” were overnight - probably at 20 Celsius and this morning…well you can see in the pics. If the problem was the weather/temperature, do I backtrack and drain half the water before adding more on a hot day? Or do I continue adding from now on the next hot day?