How to Install a Pool Liner
A pool liner is used to keep the water in your pool from leaking. Installing a pool liner improperly will cause it to rip and your water to leak, so it’s important to do it right the first time around. Here’s how.
Start laying earth mound around the bottom of the pool, making sure that the pool liner doesn’t touch the pool’s metal frame at the base. What is earth mound? It’s simply a fine layer of sand which needs to be laid as smoothly as possible, removing any pebbles or rocks in the earth mound.
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Spread out the pool liner, making sure it touches the pool walls, ground and the earth mound. Don’t stretch it out too tightly, as this may create an air spice between the pool liner and the earth mound. Such an air space will make the pool liner vulnerable to leaks when the air space is exposed to the density of the water and the pool movements of people swimming.
Don’t be too overly concerned with small wrinkles while spreading out your pool liner. This will eventually smooth out over time when water fills up the pool. Wrinkles means extra space, and it will be helpful with the preventing the pool liner from ripping in the future.
Once you’ve spread out everything, hang the extra pool liner out in the edges of the pool by draping them.
Fill the pool as you normally would, although it would be helpful to check the pool liner’s manual on the optimum fill line for the pool liner. Once the water in the pool reaches 12 inches in depth, check if the liner is still sitting properly. If it does, it means it was installed properly and you can go on filling up the rest of the pool.
Clamp the liner to the edges of the pool to secure them and keep them from moving. The clamps usually comes with the liner itself.
If you learn from this article, you’ll surely learn more by reading how to make a swimming pool and how to build a pool deck.