ok now I feel better! this is my first above ground pool I have ever bought for my family and just wanna take care of it and do everything right .Thanks for taking the time to reply to my questions I greatly appreciate it! Have a good day.

This was a very worthwhile informative video.Thank you.

Thank you for your great description on draining a pool and the risks you run, it was very well presented. I wish the individuals at Brady's in Idaho Falls, Idaho had taken the time to educate me on this one simple fact about draining my pool before hand.

Great information. I just drained my pool to fix the interior inside. I actually did drain a week ago, but I think I have a leak like you said. Yes its cold but I might have this problem. Thanks for the information.

I really appreciate the great advice, Chad!

Thanks for the excellent tip. I never knew about this. So would it be a bad idea to drain the pool and store the above ground pool I have for winter? What would be your recommendations when closing the pool for the winter. Thank you.

This past winter we had -9 degrees temperatures for a few days, and below zero degrees for a week, and below freezing almost 3 months. I literally had an 18 foot (diameter) floating block of ice that eventually pulled the liner down, ripped-n-split the beading off and drained the entire pool when spring started to creep in. I had no choice in having an empty pool. That manufacture's liner warranty is good toilet paper by the way.

In Canada you might want to do the repair in May or October because if you do it in the middle of the winter the liner will be as brittle as glass. Plus you could get hypothermia.

Am I in danger of ripping my new liner.. I always have drained the water to about 2 or 3 ft so I can get any leafs out that were left in before I closed it. I get them out and fill it back up within a week or so. We bought a new liner last summer. Is it Ok as long as you leave 3 ft of water n your pool. It is above ground pool by the way.

Thank you I need to proof my husband this happens !!!!!!! So now should we change the liner we filled it up. And we keep having shortage of water.

Does this apply to PVC and polyester 3-ply side walls?

Nice side burns chief! But very nice video!! Thanks

Great advice

We started to fill a new 22' intex but stopped because we realized we were not level. We got at most 10 inches of water in the pool and are draining it to level the ground. Are we in danger of losing the liner when we go to fill it again?

I went to open my 18ft round pool and found a tear in the cover and under the cover was nasty debris filled water. I figured to drain the pool clean it and start over with fresh water. So I started the siphon method, water started draining everything was going good and then it stopped with about 12 inches left. So I started looking for ways to get the rest of the water out and stumbled upon this video about not draining the water out. What do I do now? Did I damage my liner or not since there is about a foot to a foot and a half water left in the pool? Do I scoop out the debris, fill the pool with water and let the filter do the rest? Help!

Well.... I had to pull the trigger and drain my new 21' above ground pool.... I set it up Sunday and started filling it that evening, got about 2 feet in it by Monday evening (never left the water run over Sunday night) and noticed I had some serious ground work under the liner that needed to be fixed (two large divets occured somehow even though the ground was tamped, only thing I could think off was that we had a fair amount of rain Saturday and it loosened the soil somehow, I dunno), but I couldn't ignore it, had to be fixed. So I weighed the options and decided that since it was A. Brand new, B. Wasn't filled to the top, and C. The skimmer and return holes weren't yet cut out I started draining it late Monday evening... by noon today it was emptied down enough to let the liner loose.... the remaining 1/2" of water had to sucked out with a shopvac (no fun let me tell you!!).... by 7pm this evening liner was hung back up and the refill has started. So about 7 hours down before the refill started.

We drained our above ground 27 ft pool so we can clean it. Its been sitting almost empty for a week and we are about to scrub the walls abd clean it today. We didn't realise it's dangerous to drain it. Is it safe to jump in abd scrub it or should it be done from the outside. The liner doesn't look like it shrinked it looks like it expanded.

No you are fine. This video has to do with steel wall pools with vinyl liners. Your pool is made from a different material and does not effect you. You will be fine to drain it.

Last fall I took my above ground pool completely down, have been told since then that I probably ruined a good liner by taking it down, as most videos do. This was the first year, any suggestions by anyone for this situation ? It has been in the basement at a constant 65 degree temp.Hoping to put it up in maybe middle april and fill slowly allowing temp to gradually warm. Any Ideas, or help from people with the same experience, instructions on box said to totally drain, and store ?

Our pool bead liner popped out in about 8 areas when we refilled our above ground pool. After I was able to drain the remaining water and re-install bead liner it filled up just fine. Was a real hassle for a while though!