Hello, I was wanting to see if anyone would know a way to repair a tear where the vinyl goes over the rail and meets back on the liner on the outside of the pool. The tear is on the outside of the pool, it would not actually be touching water but obviously is used to hold the water. Thank in advance!
Rip on the rail of my pool
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You could try a vinyl boat patch repair (from sporting goods section or store), but that is a stress point on the frame pools. It will likely need to be replaced by the end of this season (if not sooner)
agree with Splash, i would give it a try, but i would patch it on both sides of the rip. making sure that the first patch you put on it completely set up before adding the other side
The pool is empty right now should I at least fill it some before attempting? Is my goal to close it back up or just to make it stop tearing further?
Both, honestly. By closing it some (if it will) you want to relieve the stress off the good part of that seam
Put fix on before you add water...........I worry the rip will keep going if you start adding water now. I would also go a ways beyond the rip AND I would go along the rip AND over the rail in an effort to support the vinyl both ways.
Kim
Kim
If you have a piece of vinyl laying around, or can buy a piece, even if colors don't match. Large enough to wrap from one side over to the other then use something like a grommet tool or similar to attach everything together under the rail. Could possibly even sew it for that matter. This should take alot of the force off the existing piece of vinyl. a temporary fix but should help. makes sense in my head
Thanks everyone, see I got this pool used($100) they bought it last summer I think we stressed the liner when taking it down. I would not have been in this situation if my 22' Intex hadn't rusted out in less than 2 years. I can't really afford a new one right now so I'm quite bummed out our other Intex lasted like 8 years......
Is there anyway you can winterize the pool in place?
Were you able to contact Intex about replacement parts? I know they can be "silly" about things.
I definitely understand the budget constraints!
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the intex is the one that rusted, we never take ours down, but we bought the one i put in the pic above the other day and i think we stressed the liner when we were trying to get it apart so it ripped like that because best i know it was not like that before we took it apart at the persons house.
So I'm thinking I'm gonna see the rip with fishing line just to hold it in place, use some of my old pool liner(only 2 years old but really thick) use hh-66 and patch the entire seam that is trying to rip.
That is a very interesting idea right there........Let us know how it goes as it might be something we can pass on to others if needed!
Kim
Kim
rajung
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FWIW, I was at Walmart today and just happen to catch the liner design as I was walking past the pool stuff.
If I remember the size correctly 18'? that appears to be a Coleman pool, $388.00
Use the liner and have many spare parts, I suppose you might already know the brand.
If I remember the size correctly 18'? that appears to be a Coleman pool, $388.00
Use the liner and have many spare parts, I suppose you might already know the brand.
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yes unfortunately i would not buy that pool new even if i had the money now that i have read up on the window problems they have, im going to seal my windows if my repairs hold up, and buy a new pool in a year or two hopefully
I might be a little wary about doing this because the liner will move around and twist a little on the rails as you fill the pool to balance the load on both sides of the loop. Unless you can manage to glue it exactly in the right spot you might wind up adding more of a load against the rip than relieving it.