We just had a new liner installed on our inground pool. The liner looks great, but I just noticed that we no longer have a 'track' on the coping where our winter cover gets slotted in. When looking at before photos, the old liner is lower, so it appears there were two tracks (one for the liner, one above for the lock-in winter cover) and they installed the new liner in the top track. I'm assuming this is a problem and now we can't put our winter cover in the track??? What next? Am I missing something, do they need to fix it (or can this be fixed?)
New liner installed - is this a problem?
- Thread starter kinkat
- Start date
- Jul 21, 2013
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- 35000
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- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
Welcome to TFP.
Let us see the photos you are looking at and how it is now.
I think you need to ask the installer what they intended you to do.
Did they know you used the upper track for a winter cover?
Let us see the photos you are looking at and how it is now.
I think you need to ask the installer what they intended you to do.
Did they know you used the upper track for a winter cover?
Thank you! Here's a photo, you can see on the right there's a track for the lock in cover and it looks like the liner is installed below (in a second track I'm guessing?)
On the left is the new liner and looks like it's been clipped into the upper track.
The installer should know we used the upper track because we had a phone conversation about winter covers before measuring for the liner happened.
I asked them only about pricing on safety covers but then told them NOT to bother measuring for one, which they didn't.
EDIT: They said they didn't know what type of cover... and when we close and drop the water, they could pull the liner out of the top track and move it to the bottom track. Is this an acceptable solution? Will this cause any issues?
On the left is the new liner and looks like it's been clipped into the upper track.
The installer should know we used the upper track because we had a phone conversation about winter covers before measuring for the liner happened.
I asked them only about pricing on safety covers but then told them NOT to bother measuring for one, which they didn't.
EDIT: They said they didn't know what type of cover... and when we close and drop the water, they could pull the liner out of the top track and move it to the bottom track. Is this an acceptable solution? Will this cause any issues?
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sktn77a
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That sounds like a reasonable solution, provided they know what they are doing. I'd grill them on that before you let them near it!
It would be almost impossible to move the liner now.
I would leave it alone.
Figure out a different way to cover the pool.
I would leave it alone.
Figure out a different way to cover the pool.
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I figured I would ask here as well as get another pool professional's opinion on moving it down a slot. I can see how they'd say it's "no problem" but at the same time I kind of agree with JamesW that it's safer to leave it alone and find another way to cover it... but who's paying for a new cover, right?
No, it's not a foxx pool.
No, it's not a foxx pool.