I'm on day four of my first SLAM, and the water is slowly but surely clearing. Clear water always lets you see what you couldn't before, so...
When I first bought this house (and pool) about three years ago, I asked the pool service guy whether I needed to think about replastering the pool - as it was looking pretty concrety to me - and he told me that I had at least two or three years before I needed to start thinking about that. He being the expert, I dropped the idea into the "checkback in three years" bin. Now that the water is clearing out from my first SLAM, it is obvious that there is not so much plaster as there is concrete in my pool. As draining and replastering will not be an option around here until this winter (water table height and risk of pop-out), I am wondering what I need to be aware of relative to the plaster - or lack of - effects on chemistry and also mitigating any further damage to the concrete until I get a chance to have it replastered. The remaining coating looks like it had a fine pebble in it...if that matters.
When I first bought this house (and pool) about three years ago, I asked the pool service guy whether I needed to think about replastering the pool - as it was looking pretty concrety to me - and he told me that I had at least two or three years before I needed to start thinking about that. He being the expert, I dropped the idea into the "checkback in three years" bin. Now that the water is clearing out from my first SLAM, it is obvious that there is not so much plaster as there is concrete in my pool. As draining and replastering will not be an option around here until this winter (water table height and risk of pop-out), I am wondering what I need to be aware of relative to the plaster - or lack of - effects on chemistry and also mitigating any further damage to the concrete until I get a chance to have it replastered. The remaining coating looks like it had a fine pebble in it...if that matters.
