On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 22:54:43 GMT, "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

you can pump water out to the point where you only have about 12
inches in the shallow end of the pool...you pump any more than that
out and you will ruin the liner...it will have to be replaced. You
never take all the water out of a vinyl liner pool...the water is what
holds the pool in shape. After draining it down as much as possible
wait until the sun is shining on it at the hottest part of the
day...thats when you can stretch that liner as much as possible and
try to reattach it to the coping or whatever the device is that holds
the liner around the top rim of the pool. If the liner is more that a
year old it may not be very pliable...may not stretch very much. The
worst case scenario is a new liner which you can find on the Internet
for $500 if you want to install it yourself.

Regards,
Bill