"If it's not one thing it's another!" Since we had to install a new liner, my husband spent a ton of time releveling the sand base, and decided to use pool coving instead of building up the side with sand. However, with around 2' of water in the pool, we noticed several sections of the cove have not only lifted, but flipped around as well. We aren't able to budge them at all with water in the pool. My question is, once we drain the water is there some trick to moving them back into place and turning them around so they're facing the correct way, short of taking the liner down (please don't say we'll have to take the liner down!)
Pool coving lifting and shifting..
- Thread starter spf30
- Start date
- Jul 21, 2013
- 64,689
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
Its not easy to see, but here it is. Basically, the cove was stuck to the pool at the base as it should be. But as water filled (the yellow line you see is pollen residue from where the water line was (have to drain it). The cove comes in 4' long pieces (maybe 6', cant remember). So some of them stayed attached at the base, but a few of them seemed to have lost their grip at the base and have crept up the side a few inches, and spun around so the wrong side is sticking out. One arrow shows where one piece stayed put, the other shows the piece next to it has moved up.
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- Jul 21, 2013
- 64,689
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
IMO you have to remove the liner and reset the cove. It will continue to push into the void where the wall and sand floor meet, causing a stress at the seam that's supposed to be located there. The pressure of the water can possibly push the liner under the metal rods that hold the wall in place, causing a liner failure.
Make sure to use double sided tape to hold the cove against the wall. And make sure the cove is flat against the sand floor without any voids.
Is the white line in the pic the cove seam? What do the directions say where that seam should start and where it should end up when filled with water?
Well, there wasn't much regarding directions, and in hindsight, we should have used other adhesive! But, it was strange, once all the water was out, the coving seemed to have settled back into place. There must have been enough air trapped between the liner to allow it to 'float up'. We managed to push it in as best as we could, and put bricks in ziplock bags to try to hold them in place while filling. Plus my husband is going out to check every hour to be sure there's no movement. Hopefully they are seated in properly and we wont have the problems you mentioned above, Mariane! If we do, we'll need to start over, yet again!
For anyone dealing with this in the future, as we drained the pool (we were perhaps at 2' deep), once it got around 1', the coving seemed to push itself back into place for the most part, thank the Lord! There must have been air between the wall and the liner and as water pushed in, the air pushed the cove up, then reversed it back down as the water emptied. I don't know!! There were a couple pieces that 'spun', but we were able to maneuver them. There is one spot that is still not quite right, but we just made do. So far, so good! Hopefully it'll be smooth sailing from here on out, knock wood as they say!