Perhaps I'm wasting my time and should just have my pool resurfaced, but I'm not there yet.
We had to drain the pool to fix a crack in a bench area. That has been done and patched. Not a perfect match but I can live with it for now. Wife says we'll die in this house so I'm fine with it.
However, the our pool venture started because we thought we were losing water a little more rapidly and suspected a leak somewhere. Initially thought it may be the plumbing. Did not suspect the bench crack, as that seemed to be isloated and did not extend to the floor or walls. However as I looked around, the pebbletec is showing some hairline cracks in other places. The question for this thread is the tile line area. The caulk line is starting to fail at top of pool. A few grout line also appear weak and compromised. I tapped around on some tile and there are quite a few with a hollow sound. I also noticed near those hollow tile are hairline cracks in pebble underneath. One in particular pictured below, where the tile was letting and I pulled it off, there are cracks in the substructure. That concerns me a bit and I now wonder if it's prudent to tear out the entire tile line, fix the base and reinstall new tile? Or, is just patching in near hollow area sufficient. Most of the pool tiles sound firmly affixed. Perhaps 12-15 suspect...in my not so expert opinion.
More photos if you wish. I know some folks, like myself won't click an unknown authors link. I did a re-edit to add photo above. dropbox photos of pool tile
Hard to see hairlines in pebble from photos without zooming in larger file size image, but there are small tracks trailing down. One does seem more severe that the others and we may need to grind that out and patch as well. I'm beginning to wonder if the entire problem is a result of the failing tile line. When we started chasing the leak, the rate of dissipation slowed as water level dropped, that's why I thought it may be in the return line plumbing. Now I question the integrity of the tile/wall and perhaps some seepage.
Thanks for any feedback.
Jeff
We had to drain the pool to fix a crack in a bench area. That has been done and patched. Not a perfect match but I can live with it for now. Wife says we'll die in this house so I'm fine with it.
However, the our pool venture started because we thought we were losing water a little more rapidly and suspected a leak somewhere. Initially thought it may be the plumbing. Did not suspect the bench crack, as that seemed to be isloated and did not extend to the floor or walls. However as I looked around, the pebbletec is showing some hairline cracks in other places. The question for this thread is the tile line area. The caulk line is starting to fail at top of pool. A few grout line also appear weak and compromised. I tapped around on some tile and there are quite a few with a hollow sound. I also noticed near those hollow tile are hairline cracks in pebble underneath. One in particular pictured below, where the tile was letting and I pulled it off, there are cracks in the substructure. That concerns me a bit and I now wonder if it's prudent to tear out the entire tile line, fix the base and reinstall new tile? Or, is just patching in near hollow area sufficient. Most of the pool tiles sound firmly affixed. Perhaps 12-15 suspect...in my not so expert opinion.
More photos if you wish. I know some folks, like myself won't click an unknown authors link. I did a re-edit to add photo above. dropbox photos of pool tile
Hard to see hairlines in pebble from photos without zooming in larger file size image, but there are small tracks trailing down. One does seem more severe that the others and we may need to grind that out and patch as well. I'm beginning to wonder if the entire problem is a result of the failing tile line. When we started chasing the leak, the rate of dissipation slowed as water level dropped, that's why I thought it may be in the return line plumbing. Now I question the integrity of the tile/wall and perhaps some seepage.
Thanks for any feedback.
Jeff
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