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Our contractor installed new pool liner in our in-ground pool recently. When we went swimming after that we could feel what seemed like a nail under the liner on the bottom part of the pool, the slope between the shallow and deep end. The nail seems to be lying on its side (i.e. sideways). We...

I live in the Atlanta area. The pools has a vinyl liner. The slab is properly sloped away from the pool so that the water doesn't drain into the pool.

We have having our vinyl pool liner replaced and also partial replacement of the slab since some areas have been settling over the years and mudjacking didn't help. My neighbor, who also owns a pool, recommended that we ask to have an overflow drain installed while we're having this work done...

I don't know. How can I tell? My pool guy who's been in business for 25-30 years says that the pool stairs are in a pretty good shape. I see plenty of superficial hairline cracks in it but nothing major. He said we could scrub it and repaint it to look newer.

We have having out vinyl pool liner replaced. At the same time, we are having parts of the slab around the pool removed and re-poured since there were some areas that were slowly sinking and mud-jacking only fixed the problem temporarily. So, right now we're already looking at an almost $7,000...

The deep side of our pool sank about 1.5 inches because we had a trash pit very close to the pool ( contained trees the builder buried 27 years ago). The trash pit has been excavated and refilled so the sinking problem has been eliminated. Our pool contractor's plan was to build up that side...