How can you keep the vacuum from sticking to the bottom of the pool and making wrinkles in the liner?

Answer 1

Sounds like you have too much suction in the skimmer. If you have 2 skimmers and have plugged one to vacuum, try taking it out. If you do not have 2 skimmers and have a main drain, try diverting some more of the suction to the main drain. I am not sure why you would be getting wrinkles unless your liner is loose or you have water behind the liner causing this. Hope this helps

Answer 2

If the pH goes unchecked wrinkles will appear in the liner. Make sure alkalinity level is maintained and such problems will not occur. Once there is a good size wrinkle you own it until you replace the liner. It is imperative that you keep the water chemically balanced. This is simple to do...go to a poll store and buy test strips...$300.00 in chemicals is waaaayyy cheaper than a new install!!!

Answer 3

The biggest problem with doing this, is you have to drain your pool to where the wrinkles are for this to do any good. If it is on the floor you will have to drain the pool that far. But to answer your question, if the liner is too tight to get a grip on, you can take a hair dryer and CAREFULLY, WITHOUT TOUCHING THE WATER, move the dryer back and forth over the tile line, for about 2 feet until almost but not quite hot. dont hold it in one place for to long. This will warm the liner up and make it a little more stretchy. You will need to take some water out of the pool to make this a little easier. The more water out the better, just make sure if you do drain your pool, be prepared to fill it back up immediately, as if you leave the water drained for too long, your liner will shrink.

Answer 4

There aren't too many tricks to use once there is water in the pool. Typically it's near impossible.

improved answer

if this is an above ground pool

answer

If you have had the liner in there for a short period of time and the creases or wrinkles are on the floor, I would drain the water down to about 1 to two inches of water in the liner. Get inside the pool with bear feet and grab the liner with your feet pulling the wrinkles to the edge of the pool wall. The weight of the water that is left in the pool will help hold the wrinkles out while you pull them to the wall. Once you have gotten all or as many of them out as you can then you can refill your liner. If the liner has been in there for a long time it will be impossible to remove all the wrinkles due to the liner being shaped that way for an extended period of time.

If they are on the wall you would have to drain the water and remove the top rails. Move around the outside of the pool pulling down on the liner on the outer top edge of the pool. This will help to bring the liner higher up the wall and help pull the wrinkles out. You then would do the same thing listed above for the floor.

If you have a beaded liner and the wrinkles are on the wall this means your cove at the inside bottom of the wall, between the wall and liner, may be to high. To fix this you would have to drain the water all the way down, pull the liner back from the wall, exposing the sand underneath the liner, and "cut" the cove down some or remove some of the cove, to reduce the height. Return the liner to the wall and add about 2 inches of water across the entire bottom of the floor. Then you can start pulling the liner with your feet like earlier, removing the wrinkles. NOTE you still might not be able to eliminate all the wrinkles.