Winter Pool Damage

by Pattie Fairbank
(Hamstead, NH, USA)

We have had so much snow this winter, I noticed the pool wall was caving in due to the snow on the cover & w/60 degree temps the snow was melting, so we took off the pressure by snapping the cable & letting the cover/snow go towards the middle. The wall seemed to bounce back a bit, but near the skimmer it's a little buckled, will this be okay when we open in the summer & fill it w/water??

It's only our 3rd summer w/the pool.


Hi Pattie. It sounds to me like your pool will be just fine. You will not know for sure until everything melts and the ground thaws. Keep the pool as full as possible and hopefully everything will go back into place. The worst that could happen is you will need to drain the water down a foot or so and reset the wall. This might mean removing a few top rails, straightening the wall, and resetting the liner. Not a big job, but maybe it won't have to be done.