Some background:
Unfortunately being new home owners and with our first time owning a pool, we successfully closed it last fall but neglected it throughout the spring and early summer. The tarp was left on the pool way too long which collected a lot of water and warped almost all of our top rails with the weight. After removing the tarp we were left with a pool half full of swamp water and tadpoles. Spending the rest of the summer skimming out the tadpoles, trying to find the leak in our liner, and looking for replacement parts, then Hurricane Isaias hit and seems to have warped/dented our pool walls slightly in two spots.
I have been looking up pool repair services to see if I can either patch the leak or replace our liner, but I was told that with our pool now having only a foot of water in it, the entire liner will have to be replaced because it will wrinkle and tear once it is filled with water again. I am now worried that our top rails and pool walls being warped could prevent a new liner from being installed properly.
My goal is to be able to have the pool in a usable state next summer so that we can keep on top of maintaining it now that we are settled into the house, and see if we feel that the enjoyment we get out of the pool is worth the effort we put in, so that the following year or later, we can decide whether to replace the pool or just remove it if we don't feel that owning a pool is worth it for us. However I am not sure if we have now already missed our opportunity to repair what we have to try it out for a summer. I'm a little hesitant to drop $8000+ on a new AG pool without knowing how much we are really going to enjoy using and maintaining it.
Can the liner of this pool be replaced (and would it be worthwhile to do so) or does the entire pool need to be replaced at this point?
Unfortunately being new home owners and with our first time owning a pool, we successfully closed it last fall but neglected it throughout the spring and early summer. The tarp was left on the pool way too long which collected a lot of water and warped almost all of our top rails with the weight. After removing the tarp we were left with a pool half full of swamp water and tadpoles. Spending the rest of the summer skimming out the tadpoles, trying to find the leak in our liner, and looking for replacement parts, then Hurricane Isaias hit and seems to have warped/dented our pool walls slightly in two spots.
I have been looking up pool repair services to see if I can either patch the leak or replace our liner, but I was told that with our pool now having only a foot of water in it, the entire liner will have to be replaced because it will wrinkle and tear once it is filled with water again. I am now worried that our top rails and pool walls being warped could prevent a new liner from being installed properly.
My goal is to be able to have the pool in a usable state next summer so that we can keep on top of maintaining it now that we are settled into the house, and see if we feel that the enjoyment we get out of the pool is worth the effort we put in, so that the following year or later, we can decide whether to replace the pool or just remove it if we don't feel that owning a pool is worth it for us. However I am not sure if we have now already missed our opportunity to repair what we have to try it out for a summer. I'm a little hesitant to drop $8000+ on a new AG pool without knowing how much we are really going to enjoy using and maintaining it.
Can the liner of this pool be replaced (and would it be worthwhile to do so) or does the entire pool need to be replaced at this point?
