Wrinkles in Expandable Liner

by Glenn Golden
(Robesonia, Pa.)

We are trying to install an expandable liner in a 27FT. round above ground pool with a 2 ft. dug out deep end. The walls are up and the deep end is filled with no wrinkles but now the flat part has major wrinkles. What do we need to do to fix this problem?



Hi. There are several solutions. You could do it over again, drain the water and re-stretch the liner. If you did not have direct over head sun light the first time, you could try it again and maybe have better results. The best time to install an expandable liner is when the majority of the pool is in direct sunlight.

One wrinkles start to appear in a deep end liner I am installing I do a couple of things. When I first see a problem develop I try to pull the liner up over the rail a little tighter, or even shift the liner a little in one direction or the other. If I see that it needs more stretch, but it keeps slipping down on its own, I cloths pin the liner to the top rail. Stretching a liner into place without wrinkles can be very tricky at times. The brand of liner, the temperature and the amount of sunlight all play part in the success of the installation.

When I see that wrinkles are going to happen no matter what I do I get in the pool immediately. You can work the wrinkles out fairly flat if you start soon enough and start at the point the wrinkle starts. Direct overhead sunlight helps immensely in this process also. Normally, once I make the decision to get in the pool, I am there until the water gets to the side. I never leave wrinkles in a pool but sometimes there are ripples. The ripples are what is left when a wrinkle has been worked out. Ripples are much better than wrinkles, if you had to choose between the two.

These pages might help also.


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