Good idea?
This is a little long, but please read because I’d love some advise on how to proceed.
I have a 24ft by 52” Intex pool. We put it up last year by leveling the ground, packing the dirt, topped it with a gorilla mat and set it up. We used it all summer and closed it properly for the winter. Things got warm really early so I opened the pool late march (not intending to use it any time soon, but figured at least it would be ready when the weather stayed consistently warm). Wellllll….. something happened and the liner sprung a pretty bad leak right on a seam (I’m thinking a rock got flipped up when my husband was mowing or something like that, but we aren’t really sure)
Intex sent us a new liner, so we’ve completely emptied and taken down the pool. I’ve chosen to look at this in the most positive way possible and use it as an opportunity to fix the few leveling issues that we had (it was a little high in one spot and too low in another spot), so I’ve gotten sand to use to soften the base and fix the small issues.
My question is this:
We cut the old liner so we can use it as a second layer under the pool and we still have the gorilla liner.
The thought is that we leave the gorilla liner, put the sand on top then put the cut liner floor on top of the sand then the pool on top of that.
The other option is pulling up the gorilla liner, put the sand down, compact it then put the pool bottom with the gorilla liner on top and the pool over that.
Thoughts?