Recent content by TheWiscoKid

Hey PoolDV - I don't know if this is useful but I contacted the original owner and now know a little more about the situation of the pool. There are two structural cracks that have appeared in the pool and now I'm terrified that the shell will never actually be sound again. If you knew the...

Thank you for the sage advice! I'd buy you a beer if I could :cool:

:sun: Thank you so much! - - - Updated - - - I got a 70k-100k quote for soil injection. For that I think I could just buy another house... @PoolDV would you mind explaining how you built your irrigation system? Part of my problem is that my house is about 3' off the pool and I don't know if I...

Dear All, I have a home in East Austin with a pool first built in 1965. The pool is 5-sided and geometric, about 101' in diameter and 18k gallons. The last homeowner resurfaced the midcentury gunite pool with fiberglass about 6 years ago. When the last owner had the fiberglass installed...

Thank you both for your response. Regarding the crack, it feels somewhat like the shell of an egg. Like when you pick away the top part of a hard boiled egg where there is an air pocket- you know how the actual yolk and white sit in an egg unevenly? It's like I've tapped that part of the egg...

Dear All, I am a new homeowner. I relocated from Milwaukee to Austin, TX. I will have owned the home for 30 days tomorrow. I have a very real fear my backyard is moving, and taking my pool with it. I live in East Austin where there is a bunch of clay soil. The homeowner had the foundation...

I want to swim every day, and thank you all for the replies and advice!

Thank you all for the advice, I have an unattached garage that has solar panels that have big surfaces that have direct sunlight in all hours of the day, so it's certainly an option. I live in a "working class" neighborhood (by working class I mean that the neighborhood association wouldn't flip...

Awesome, thanks for the advice! I am still waiting to hear back from the realtor on gallonage, too.

Howdy friends! I'm writing because I have a serious question about whether or not purchasing a pool heater is as expensive as everyone warns that it is. I have relocated from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Austin, Texas and purchased an older home with a 1960's pool that is in wonderful shape...