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Hi! We gave a 1960s gunite pool that we just had replastered. We also replaced the coping and tile. Its looking great. This said I read that pools are supposed to have an expansion joint between the coping and the deck and ours only has grout. It never had the joint, not before the remodel and...

I found a calcified crack on the dam between pool and adjacent spa, which is situated in the corner of the spillover opening and extends a few inches down on pool and spa gunite walls on each side, as shown on attached pics. I suspected loss of water last season and after winter I found that in...

Bought this home with its 13' x 26' freeform pool in FL about a year ago. Have noticed that the water level seems to quickly seep down to even with or just below some of the small cracks around the pool's top edge, and then stay stable. See pictures. I don't know what this material is, but I'm...

Hi all, I have a patched area near the bottom of the pool. It extends down from the sidewall. The patch started deteriorating and cracked around August. Since it's near the bottom, I went ahead and used EZ patch FS on the cracked area and around it. It held well for about a week before it...

Hi all, I live north of Houston near Lake Conroe. We are in a pretty nasty drought. Within my home, I noticed some cracking in my kitchen and dining room tile floors. Further inspection outside shows a severe crack, that continues to worsen, on the pool deck. I noticed the soil behind the pool...

Hi, I want to say thank you before I start. I entered contract with my current PB last Nov before I found TFP. There are many things I wish I had known before entering this contract, but I tell myself better now than later! I really appreciate the amount of information and knowledge that is...

I purchased a house with saltwater pool and elevated spa a couple years ago. While recently in the spa, I noticed small bubbles coming from a gunite crack at the bench which was previously patched by the old owners. Video at Pictures of whole area: The bubbles continued even after we turned...

Anyone ever experience a crack in the top lid? Almost seems like a design flaw.. gorilla epoxy and tape to the rescue hopefully….

I’m looking at a couple cracks in the dam wall separating a spa and pool. The biggest cracks are about an 1/8” to 1/4” and seem to lead to hollow areas inside the shotcrete. I’ve leveled out the wall but haven’t started the tiling process yet. Assuming I should fill these cracks prior to...

There is a crack in the threads where the valve screws in. So even if I put a plug, water still flows around it through the threads. How would one go about replacing this threaded plastic piece? I'm guessing it's under a lot of tile and concrete. I was thinking about trying epoxy on the threads...

Hello, Me and my husband built a pool with a independent contractor who then subcontracted all the work out. Everything was going great until the pool was finished and we filled it and we started losing water.... The subcontractor we used ghosted us..... So we had to resort to a leak detection...

I have a Pentair Tagulus TA-60D2 with 2inch pipes on the top mount filter valve. I recently had the filter sand replaced, and since then: 1. The water pressure has been low (6-7) PSI when filtering 2. The filter does do some filtering, however the PSI never increases as the filter gets dirty (it...

Hello, I recently moved to a home with an inground pool. I am not sure how old the pools is. We noticed that the small area between the coping and tile has degraded and is unsightly. I attached pictures. Is there something that can be done to fill in the cracks and cover this area to improve the...

Hello. We are in the middle of having a fiberglass pool installed. The pool builders just got the water cleaned up and we can now see there are two hairline cracks along the seat ledge and stairs. We are having a separate landscaping company do the patio. They just got the bond beam around the...

I'm very new to pool ownership. Help me Trouble Free Pool, you're my only hope. I've attached a picture that is hopefully worth a thousand words. When replacing the pressure gauge, I think I overtightened it because I noticed a small crack in the plastic where the gauge attaches to the filter...

Large crack in pool filter

Our pool is a few months old and we see cracking in the grout between the coping stones (see pictures). Our contractor claims this is normal for California. Is this really the case? Seems like a lot of cracks for a few months.

Hello! I own a pool company here in Southern California. I was getting a lot of info about bond beam repair because I think I am ready to offer that as a service. I was curious though, from all of the information I gathered in all my research (while 95% confident I can handle the job and it be...

So this was the first year opening the pool ourselves (our second season), we noticed the pool company went through maintenance staff last year and someone new closed the pool. I questioned the water level - hoping it isn’t the cause of the following…. now that I have gotten the pool clear and...

Hi There is a crack in one of the skimmers and it is leaking. The skimmer from Astral Pool and made from ABS plastic. What would be the material for fixing the crack? Some sort of epoxy putty? How about a sort of fiberfix tape? Silicone sealant?

Our deck has moved and cracked more than I expected. I noticed a few months back that there was a crack in the side wall near my skimmer, and I can clearly tell it's leaking now. Note that this happened prior to the freeze here in Texas a couple of weeks ago, so it's unrelated to that. While it...

Hi! We open my in gorund pool this summer to find the plugs out of the jet and at the bottom of the pool...ugh. When the pump is not running we do not lose any water! When we turn the pump on after about 15 minutes we start seeing water bubbling out of a drainage grate on my pool patio a way...

Bought a house in San Jose CA a few months ago with an inground pool. Not sure when the pool was built, but house was built in 1957. Pool was replastered 1-2 years ago. So I’m new to pool ownership and maintenance and trying to learn as I go along. The skimmer didn’t seem to be working well...

We just bought a house with a pool. We've only lived here six months and a while ago, about 2 months, we noticed two cracks. With the rainy weather and the holidays it took a long time to get someone out to test them. They are structural cracks in the concrete shell and we are working with a...

Hi all, I opened my pool for the season and noticed that there are many long, hairline cracks developing in the area of my spa where the bench meets the wall. I've attached a pic so you can see what I mean. I follow the TFP methods and (at least think that I) really take care of the pool and...