Bead liner not fitting into bead receiver

[whitneyeric]

We bought a house last year that had an above ground pool, so we are rather new to this pool thing. We drained the pool and when we started to fill it up the liner ripped. We ordered a new beadee liner and it doesn't fit in the bead receiver. Are we missing something? Are their different sizes of bead liners/recievers? We have watched videos and it seems like it should just go right in, but that's not the case for us. What are we missing?

Thank,
Whitney

 

[NoTime]

Welcome to TFP!

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Unfortunately, it sounds like you learned the hard lesson that a pool with a liner should never be completely drained, as a used liner will shrink as it dries..which can result in a tear when refilling. With your new liner, you will always want to keep at least 1 foot of water, until you want to replace the liner, again.

Without pictures, I would guess you have a "unibead" liner which can either be used as a J brad liner (attached to the top of the pool wall) or as a traditional beaded liner (like you are trying to use..) but the j bread portion of a unibead may have to be removed:

How To Select Above Ground Pool Liners - INYOPools.com

 

[whitneyeric]

Yes, we have a unibead liner and have removed the j brad. But the bead liner won't go into the bead reciever. We can try to push it in all day long and it just won't go.

 

[swimcmp]

Depending on the brand of pool it could have different beads

 

[whitneyeric]

Is there a trick figuring out what brand of pool it is? The previous owner installed it.

 

[whitneyeric]

The blue is the new liner and the white is the ols. I'm also attaching a picture of the reciever.