"Ed H" writes:

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I R Baboon wrote:
1) is there a good pool newsgroup my newsreader just isnt finding?
2) just purchased a house with pool. first time weve opened the pool. its
a
aboveground 16x24 with diff depths of 3' and 7' yes i know thats odd.
during
its neglect the liner seems to have unlocked from the top channel with
some
sort of plastic strip to lock it in. tried pulling it up too heavy of
water.
so i started draining. buddy stops by, says draining pool completly is
worse
thing to do to pool. ok. what do i do to get that to lock in then?
thanks

I have an inground pool, but I have never been left without an answer
at this site:

http://www.poolforum.com/

Hope that helps. There are even pros that post and answer questions
there. By the way I'm new to my pool also and once you get it set up,
the only hard thing is the chemistry.

You can not fill a liner and then drain the water from it, it loses its
elasticity. Time for a new liner. The life expectancy of a pool liner isn't
very long anyway.

I've drained a pool and then reinstalled the liner.
No real problems.
Not paying a lot of attention to what I was doing, I did have
some creases in the liner after I reinstalled it, but it still lasted
for a number of years.

Actually, the pool drained itself, due to a massive periodic cicadia
attack from below. I removed the liner, put some metal window screening
under the sand, patched the dozens of holes in the liner and put it back.

(It was still a bit leaky, either I missed some holes or the patches
weren't holding.)

Since then I've installed a new liner.
You can order new liners over the internet and some of them look great
compared to the originals.