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Do I need to drain my pool to do this? There may be a fee, and you may need to provide your own hose, from the hydrant to your pool, but it may be an option for some people. I hope Ive answered all of your questions about how to install an inground pool liner, if you have other questions, give our liner experts a call at 800-288-7946, or Leave a Reply below for a personal answer! If you have a pool light, now is the time to install the ring and new gasket, and reinstall the light fixture into the niche. Measurement Equipment: You will need a 50 ft measuring tape, rigid or flexible, and a 25 ft rigid tape. Remove the main drain faceplate, and replace the gasket, taping it in place so the holes line up, and so it wont shift while under the liner. Be sure to order new pool light gaskets, and possibly a new light ring as well, if it looks aged, yellowed or is cracked or warped. Keep the vacuum running until the shallow end is covered in 3-6 of water! Most pools will vary from the original specs, and can slightly shift over a period of many years, so its always recommended to remeasure the pool, completely. Otherwise just ignore it, and it may cause no problems. Can we start the vacs and the water back on to continue filling the pool. It is however recommended to replace the faceplates and gaskets, except for the step gasket, which is a very thick and durable rubber seal. Very difficult to remove and replace, but it can be patched with epoxy putty, or painted. Get the last bit with a mop and bucket, large sponge, a shop vac or your cover pump. Be sure to crank those screws down very tightly, using a #3 Phillips. Clean off the pool deck if needed, to keep the pool clean. Then cut vertically from the floor, up thru the top bead in several spots around the pool. If this area is wavy, and not fairly level, it can look odd. Make sure your replacement gaskets and faceplates are exact match before liner day. Dont use an electric drill, use a #3 Phillips screwdriver, or #3 tip on a cordless drill. If the pool has severe algae and large volumes of leaves and other debris, consider renting a small Trash Pump. You can also use a plumb bob on a horizontal pole, and measure to the vertical string. Planning your installation during spring break, or stretched out over several weekends, may help in obtaining helpers. Your helper can do the same on the opposite side of the steps. Install during 65-85 F. If cold, keep the liner inside a warm house until ready. It is not uncommon to need to shift the liner a few inches, if it ends up slightly out of alignment. Plug into a strong 20 amp outlet, keep the vac plug dry if raining. No tripped breakers! Try laying on the deck and leaning way over the edge, grabbing a handful of vinyl (you may have to shut off the vacuum temporarily), and pulling towards the wall, and releasing the liner slowly into place. Large 24s can be used to roughly screed flat areas, finishing with the trowel. The face plates for your skimmer and return should be replaced if they have some age to them. Be cautious working around an empty pool. Wrinkles: Monitor the pool for wrinkles as it fills, or check the small ones that you saw earlier, to be sure they are stretched out. Measure the pole at the point where it intersects the string, and then subtract the distance from the deck to the liner track, or bead. You can use a cordless drill as well, but be sure to use a large #3 Phillips bit. Leave the floor section of vinyl liner in place for now, keeping it in the pool until you are ready to work on the floor. If I use too much of the metal protector, does this bind up the bromine? Pay a decent wage, and you should have no trouble putting a small team together. From a Hydrant:In some small towns, if you have a fire hydrant close to your house, you can contact your fire department for a permit to use the fire hydrant to fill your pool. Push it down behind the liner a few feet, about a foot above the floor. You may ask why not just put on the step tracks and screws? That is done later, after the liner has stretched into place. Use 20 amp circuits (Kitchen/Garage), with HD ext. If all air leaks are sealed, in under a minute the Cyclone will pull the liner tight against the walls and floor. Gaskets:Most step sections have a heavy duty rubber step gasket that holds up to many liner changes. Most pools have a few at first, it just takes some finesse to work them out, by pushing and pulling them towards the wall, or expanding them across the floor. In our area, they charge about $250 for the first 5000 gallons, and then $200 for each additional and they just fill their trucks from fire hydrants! Continue all the way around the pool, locking the liner snugly into the track. Install the screw hider strips and youre done! After cleaning the surfaces, use small strips of duct tape to secure the skimmer, pool light and main drain gasket, the one that goes under the liner (theres a second gasket used on top of the liner). The SS screws can be reused as long as the Phillips heads are not worn smooth, aka stripped. With at least 3 people, one to hold the shallow end wall, two others will grab opposite sides of the liner and pull it across the pool to the deep end wall. Pull any slack along the wall with you, as you go, keeping a slight tension. Buy your skimmer gaskets and main drain gaskets in pairs, once goes under the liner, and one gasket on top of the liner. Keep your vertical measuring pole straight, or use a plumb bob on a horizontal pole. A large flat sign, or cardboard sheet can be used. You need all of the screws if missing one, find a factory replacement fast. Then you can install the side strips, working from the bottom towards the top. Wait to drain the pool until you have everything ready to go, and a good weather forecast. Also, most warranties are pro-rated, so a 25 year warranty may have little value over time. Thank you. Set aside the drain cover and screws for now. After removing the wire nuts, and loosening the clamps, duct tape a long piece of string to the wires. I plan to install this fall but was thinking of installing the walls for now and wait to install the liner in the spring. Bend down and lock the corners into the tracks. Do this from outside the pool, leaning over the edge. Most hoses can do close to 10 gpm, 600 gallons per hour, or 14,400 gallons per 24 hrs. You can also use a cover pump, or a wet/dry vac or even old towels, to get up the last few gallons. Clean the step gasket, or use the step gasket kit if it looks damaged. The corners should all be central to the actual corners, although they will be very slack. do you glue it to keep it in place ? Safely store your screws, so not even one gets lost, we usually use Zip bags for the screws. If you have a step section, lay a 24 across the front of the steps and duct tape the liner to it, at the same height at the track. Small wrinkles up against the wall should flatten out as water fills the pool. Hi Greg, you do not need glue. The weather does play an important part on the liner installation also. You can also use two pool poles at 90 deg angles to each other, to help hold the vertical pole in position, on larger pools. You can place sandbags or Water Bags up against the shallow end wall or under the step section, if it seems that you need it to help prevent the liner from slipping toward the deep end. Banging the lower wall with a push broom, or gently persuading wrinkles with the the wood edge of a push broom works well. Can I leave the amerlite pool light in the stainless steel housing and pull it out just prior or after to installing the liner light ring? I am trying to replace my liner but i have a high water table and can not stop the water even with hydro cement. Wait until the water is up to the screw holes before screwing in the bottom step strip. Wall is prepped, floor is prepped, and we can now open the new pool liner box and follow the included instructions. I purchased a semi-in-ground pool which will be buried half in-ground. Start in the shallow end center, and pull opposite each other, to remove small amounts of slack, while keeping the corners in place. Set up the vac on the edge of the pool, in the middle of a long side. Some wet/dry vacs arent strong enough for the job. Five or ten gallons spilled wont hurt the floor of the pool, but dont remove the floor of the liner with inches of water still left in the hopper. However! Then once it is locked into the track, the Liner Lock product is used. Close the skimmer valve tightly and keep the pump running (and draining) until the main drains begin to suck air. Even with vermiculite or concrete floors, try not to enter the pool, and if you must, walk very gently. You may be able to reach it from above, hanging upside down, or standing in the deep end reaching up. Switch sides and measure the width of the opposite side wall. Check your local govt. First, shut off power and open up the junction box. And now you can really see how the liner fits, how it meets the corners and if there are any wrinkles. Small sandbags or water bags laid under the bottom step, on the liner, is helpful to simulate the weight of the water. After the light ring is installed, when the pool is nearly full of water, then you cut out the vinyl inside the light ring and can install the light. If you need to stand on something, make sure its soft, or placed on a broad, flat surface, so that you dont damage the new liner. We dont install these until the pool is full, because the liner is still stretching into place. Installing an inground vinyl liner is not too difficult, especially if youve measured correctly. If they run diagonally, you may need to shift the liner in the track somewhat. New faceplates for the skimmer, drain and returns are also recommended, as older plastic faceplates will warp and crack, which makes a poor seal that can seep and weep water. Any separation or suspected leakage can be filled in with silicone or other elastomeric sealant. Most wells can handle filling a pool of 20-30,000 gallons. if not what is the next most durable liner. With just a few inches of water in the hopper bottom, carefully walk down to the deep end and put on the main drain faceplate ring, top gasket and main drain cover. Hi Duane, no not at all, above ground pool steps are installed with water in the pool. If you have a step section in the shallow end, you can use some duct tape for now, to help hold the liner over the span of the steps. I suppose you could also but them up against each other, probably would work fine also. Sanitizer level should be near zero, and the pH should be between 6 8, to protect your local watershed, but it need not be clean and clear. In some cases, you have to move on, and work on them later, as the last few wrinkles may be more easily worked out when there is a few inches of water covering the area. If the floor is a sand bottom, you may just try to work the pebble into the floor. Use the 1x12 boards to move around, these dig into the sand less than your shoes. how to install new stair seal does it go on outside or in ? I dont usually use the skimmer, but just pull open a second of the liner (about 6) and pop the hose in, then seal it up with duct tape. Roll-up the wall sections, and remove from the pool. Some people cut a large section from the old liner and lay that across the steps, taping or weighting it down.

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