Pool Walls Keep Coming Down

by Tina
(Fair Grove MO)

Recently I purchased a Doughboy 24ft above ground pool used. We tried to use the liner that had came with the pool and finally decided just to buy a new one. We are in the process of installation and it seems as if every time we get part of the pool in the track, the other side falls.

We tried using my teenage daughters to help hold it, but cell phones soon became "interference"! Do you have any tips to keep the sides staying up while we are working?

Hi Tina. The photos on these pages might help a little.

Above Ground Swimming Pool Installation Tips

Oval Pool Installation

Diamond Star Oval Installation

The key to getting the wall to stay in the track starts in the beginning stages of the above ground pool installation. You must have a perfectly round and perfectly level bottom rail. The slightest difference in level makes the wall want to not stay in the track.

The other important thing is to build the pool framework as you install the wall. With a Doughboy pool we would be installing uprights and top rails at the same time we are installing the wall. No more than two or three rails of wall are ever up without the frame for support.

Out liners get installed over this framework so it's not wasted time. When the bottom has some water in it and it is time to take the rails off and tuck the liner we do the same thing, just a few rails at a time.