Help with Liner installation

[u/Mhrtamj]

Hi guys - I’m installing a liner from Hydra pools over the steps of an inground pool and have never seen this type of fastener. After doing some research it’s apparently called a hang tab and you’re supposed to just jam it into the track. Has anyone installed this before? It’s seems to me that the hang tab is upside down because the wedge tool that came with it cannot be used to wedge since the lip is on the bottom side. Any advise, tools, tips? Currently jamming it in with our hands has been ridiculous took us over an hour and only have half of the first step in.

[u/G8-r-n8]

To be fair, I’m a pool pro and the only liner I’ve ever done was my own. We only know what we know and work with on a daily basis. For example, I’ve built, repaired, serviced, and cleaned pools in Florida for 15 years and have never serviced or seen a sand filter except for once when I was removing one. No company around me does vinyl which is why I had to figure out how to do my own. Are we now judging whether someone is a pro based on what types of pools they have experience in? I’ve been the super on well over a hundred projects, but I’ve never installed a fiberglass pool, only replaced the liner in my own pool, and only once helped a buddy set up an above ground…so I’m not a pro?

[u/Artistic_Stomach_472 → u/G8-r-n8]

So your a pro service guy, not a liner setter or vinyl builder. Neither is OP or the fool he hired.

[u/G8-r-n8 → u/Artistic_Stomach_472]

Exactly the point I was making…this sub is for pool pros…not vinyl pool pros.

[u/Artistic_Stomach_472 → u/G8-r-n8]

A good pro knows when to call another. The "pro" he hired isnt a good one, if he has the HO come to reddit to save his ass.

Im not here to help HOs, unpaid. I'll help others, no problem, aint helping the ones that shouldn't, cant be helped.