Draining A Vinyl Liner Pool

Your dealer or builder should have told their customer this but sometimes they don t and of course many people end up with a pool when they buy the house.

Draining a vinyl liner pool.

You typically only drain a vinyl liner pool in order to replace the liner. You assume all responsibility for draining your own swimming pool. Fiberglass can float and vinyl liners typically stretch when exposed to direct sunlight. Do not drain a fiberglass or vinyl liner pool.

If you have an above ground pool with a vinyl pool liner drain the pool to about 1 inch below the bottom of the skimmer mouth. The only thing keeping your liner attached to the pool wall is that the water pressure on the inside is greater than that on the outside. In addition your vinyl lined pool walls may not be strong enough to. Older pools may not have been built structurally to hold back the weight of the dirt against it when the pool is drained which can then cause the walls to collapse.

The liner can also become hard and brittle. Even extremely dirty water in a vinyl liner pool is most often dealt with by partially draining and refilling versus draining completely. The water in the pool helps hold the liner into place. Inground vinyl liner pools this type of pool is the most difficult to drain and should only be done by a professional.

If you drain your pool and the bottom is below the surface level of the water table then the water from outside with seep in under your liner and it ll appear to float up from the bottom. The older the vinyl material is the more likely this is to happen. Draining a pool is a potential risky business for even gunite or plastered pools but it will usually be a disaster on a vinyl liner pool. Once you refill a vinyl liner it will often have crinkles in it and never look the same.

Vinyl lined draining a vinyl lined inground pool can be difficult because the liner is fragile and can tear or rip easily.