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Thank you Tim. I agree with you that getting a quote for liner replacement is the first step.

Hi, I have a friend who just bought a house with a vinyl above ground pool. I want to help him out to repair it. However, I only have experience with maintaining my inground concrete pool. By looking at the photos below, can someone please give me an idea about what is involved in repairing...

Not quite, except one or two are slightly loose after I remove some loose concrete or mortar between the coping piece and the pool wall. I'm now thinking to buy the Sakrete Plug-Tite to fill them into the void. Is that a good idea? Or do I have to remove the coping stone, clean them, put new...

Jason, yes you are right. The decking is too close to the pool, making contact with the pool coping. I think that is what caused the pool coping to break away from the pool wall. I'm thinking to use Rapid Set Concrete Mix for big gaps (> 2") and Sikaflex Concrete Fix (<0.5") for small gaps...

Jason, I still don't understand. Isn't pool coping cemented on top of the pool wall with mortar? Then pool wall and pool coping should move as one unit when temperature changes. IN that case, why would cement between them crack and I have to use a flexible caulking instead? I called the...

Jason, thanks for your invaluable information. I will start the work soon and see how it goes.

I see, so I guess caulking is the way to go then. I found Sikaflex Construction Caulking to be quite popular. So let me understand, is the procedure as follows? > Remove the previous patch concrete, grind or chisel to clean and solid surface > If the gap is less than 1/2" tall, then just...

Should I just build up the gap with concrete, and leave some space between the pool beam and the coping, then seal the seam with caulk? How did the pool and the coping hold together in the first place?

Thanks a lot! I will look into that. I just bought Rapid Set Concrete Mix (hydraulic cement) from Home Depot. It looks like I got the wrong thing then. The gap is mostly about 1" tall, with somewhere between 0.5" to 2". Do you think caulking can fix that?

Thanks for your answer. I still want to tackle the problem myself and if it cracks again, I will find someone else to do it. Do you have any answers to my questions above, or any special cautions to take?

Yes sir! ;)

Hi, It's my first post on this forum and I hope the experts here can help me. I've just opened the pool after the winter, and as you can see from the pictures below, the pool wall that connects to the pool coping has deteriorated. Last year some patch work was done by a friend of mine (not...