Well, as it turns out the pool place(s) in the city said that the glue likely wouldn't hold the add-on pieces of vinyl to overlap once we added water to the pool. Sooooo, we just came in after spending 2 1/2 hours (did anyone see the air turn blue over this way? LOL) undoing and reattaching the sections that had come loose from the top of the pool.
*fingers crossed* that it will hold... at least until the end of this summer, or until we can afford a new liner... whichever comes first.Gem
It might hold. Sometimes people have to say things "probably won't work" just in case it fails, even when it probably will work. As long as the vinyl is fully supported and not under any strain, I would think that adding water shouldn't pull any more on it. The only problem might be the necessary pool chemicals (chlorine etc) might weaken the glue. But if it's pool-vinyl glue, it ought to be okay.
=Tamar
Well that's what I thought (about the proper glue, I mean... as that's what our friend who has had a pool for years suggested to begin with), but the pool places I spoke with insisted that it *wouldn't* hold under the pressure of the water weighing it down. It's probable that they were just holding out so that they could try to sell us a new pool liner... which isn't happening at this time until we come up with more money.
Anyway, we just went ahead a tried our best to pull the existing liner over the edge of the top as best we could and have the garden hose in filling it up now. Considering that it obviously held for the previous owners, and also for us last summer, we're hoping that it will hold again for us this summer.... like I said in the previous post, until next summer or when we have enough money together for a new liner... whichever comes first.
If I get the reversed decision for Disability at the appeal hearing, that the lawyer seems confident will happen, and I get the back-pay for the past year that is owed to me.... first I replace the old appliances that are in dire need of replacement and possibly get a privacy fence at the back property line (and possibly the side by the parking lot as well), *then* I'll look into getting a new pool liner. I asked yesterday and they actually aren't as expensive as I was thinking they would be.
*shrug* Who knows what's going to happen by the end of this summer? Worse case scenerio, they won't reverse their decision and I will be made to look for work even though the pain is excruciating on worse days and never ending aching all the time. Of course if it happens that they don't reverse their decision then they will tell me that I have to pay back the money that Ontario Works has given me over the past year. That's a scarey thought, because even though it doesn't seem like much each month... it all adds up. :o/Gem
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