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Wrinkles in Swimming Pool Liners
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- I ended up with a few large wrinkles in our new IG pool. We had a bad winter and a wet spring. The water table rose and left wrinkles. I waited for a good rain to bring the water table up a bit. I then gently used a wooden handled red rubber toilet plunger. I plunged right next to a wrinkle and gently pulled up and away. Took some time but a lot less then a liner reset from the pool place by me ($525). Worked like a charm.
- What I did is to heat the pool to about 92 degrees or higher to make the liner softer. Then, I used my rubber "broom" on the squeegee side and started smoothing from the center toward the edge. Note: my wrinkles were not tightly pinched together so I had some movement still possible. I got the rubber "broom" from one of those home shows where they demo it as a better broom for carpets and floors. Mine has a straight edge opposite the bristles that acts as a squeegee. The whole edges are a soft rubber that won't scratch the liner, and I used care in teh operation to make sure nothing got ripped.
- You can try to remove them with a broom, squegee, or your foot. The only way to do it right is drain the pool,use a big vacuum cleaner between the liner and the pool frame and let the vacuum do it's work. Then make sure that ground water doens't get between the liner and the base during the winter. I had to construct a french drain all the way around the pool and pump ground water all winter to keep this from happening. (Built pool on under ground spring, I think).
- You can actually pull the vinyl liner away from the coping and use a vacuum smoothing out the wrinkle - this is the way that pool are initially installed - not a big problem - don't worry.
- You might try using a regular bathroom type plunger. We recently had a new liner placed in our pool and the guys who installed it told us that we could do that if we ever got a wrinkle.
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If it is fairly new liner empty the pool put a blower between the liner and outer area to lift the liner, Then reverse the process. While deflating in your stocking feet push pull and tug gently to get the wrinkles out. Kinda like making a big bed.
First answer by ID3406461265. Last edit by Kenco963. Contributor trust: 244 [recommend contributor]. Question popularity: 148 [recommend question]
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