Bent Pool Wall

Our pool wall folded over in the area just to the left of the skimmer and just to the right of the return outlet due to a shrunken liner. The fold is about 1 foot from the top of the wall and is not quite a 90 degree angle. Is this safe to straighten out and put a new liner in?

Hi. you should have no problem with straightening the side wall and reinstalling a new liner. If this leaves creases in the wall they can be reinforced and smoothed over with duct tape on the inside of the sidewall.

In extreme cases of wall damage thin sheet metal or aluminum can be taped to the inside of the sidewall. The upper half of the pool wall has a lot less pressure on it than the bottom half. You can safely make repairs of just about any nature in this area.

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Pool Wall Repair

Bent Pool Wall

I have an above ground pool and it has winter damage on the bottom of wall were it goes into the track. It bulged out and ripped liner. Can the wall be removed and straightened?



Hi. Above ground pool side walls can always be straightened out. If there was dirt around the outside that caused this, it may have to be removed. Otherwise the wall should very easily be pushed back into shape once the liner has been cut out of the pool.

Bulges in the wall like you are describing are always caused by something. If it was just the ground possibly swelling from a freeze there may not be much way to prevent it from happening again in the future. But repairs may have to be made to assure the pool is back to being perfectly level.

This type of damage may have been caused by the pool not being level so that needs to be checked very closely. If a pool is in ground, and has been left empty, the ground caving in would also cause something like this.

So, yes, the repairs are easy. Just make sure the pool is back into perfect condition before spending the money on a new liner.


Bugs Eating Liner
by: GC

My 21' above ground pool liner gets small holes in the bottom from mid July on. I suspect these bugs are eating the liner to get water. Last year before I installed a new liner I soaked the ground under the liner and around the outside about a foot with Dominion 21 and just the outside with OrthoMax. I still got holes but not as much. Well the liner leaked over the winter, the ice fell in a bent the walls all the way around. What can I do to stop these bugs from eating my liner? I thought of buying a gorilla pad but don't know if it will stop these pests. Thanks

Hi. That would be my best advice. Treat the ground one more time with bug killer and cover it with a pool pad of some sort.