But once a liner has dried out, which can happen within hours, it's finished. The liner must be replaced. Yet believe it or not, this isn't the worst thing that can happen. Then you end up with a wrecked pool and a lot of really wet people. Mr. Crate is quick to add that this kind of disaster is less common than a slowly leaking liner.
Most pools go down in the winter.
So if you're pool makes it through the winter, it'll usually make it through the summer with no problem. But as soon as you take the water out, they want to fall down. Like many in the industry, Mr. Crate says it was an unusually hard winter on above ground pools this year. Not only did we get record snow falls, the snow also stayed around much longer than usual and in this area, many believe it was that last snow fall in March, which was unusually wet and heavy, which was the straw that broke the camel's back. He says this past winter was even harder on above ground pools than the 1998 Ice Storm of the Millennium.