Hi everybody,
If you look back at my other posts and problems you'll see that I had a two trees come down and damage my pool house and pool back in March and April of this year.
It's been a fiasco with my insurance company and then trades people since trying to get things repaired. I thank all of you for your support through my chaos with this situation.
TODAY the 3rd pool builder should be coming to finally install my new liner. He actually is sub contracted by the pool store here. He's very nice but I want you, my experts to reassure me that what he wants to do is okay.
Due to the fact that my pool was finally drained in May, it deteriorated under the liner. This is what I was told by this PB and the pool store contractor. Lots of rain water got in under the liner and along the sides due to the sides being cut for measuring for new liner. Pool has actually been pumped out a total of three times with various amounts of water in it. Center of floor is in good shape, no algae or stains. Walls have red dirt from wash over or possibly ants but only one spot of rust which was about 4 inch circle. They sanded and sprayed with rust oleum.
They cleaned all the walls, scraped the floor very well and hosed it down. They put in a good days work doing this plus patched all the areas that they scraped out. The holes you will see in the photos were mostly scraped out by them because they were "loose", needed to be new material. I felt good about how thorough they were being.
Until I asked about the green and black mold that is. The main gentleman told me both are actually algae and if the sun was out and hot it would have been gone by the end of the day. Alas, but it was only 68 degrees, cloudy and beginning to sprinkle. I said I'd like to bleach it, he said it was fine to cover it with my new liner and it would not go through the liner into the water. Oh, and he said it was okay to put the liner over the wet floor that the wet would soak in.
I searched on the forum and found only two older posts similar to this situation. One of them the poster's PB did bleach or treat the algae before dropping the liner.
I've been through 7 mos of non sense waiting for this liner install and a whole summer without a pool, I sure don't want it to be done wrong.
Pictures are below. First pic is how pool has sat for 5 weeks waiting for them to fit us into schedule.
The others are work in progress showing the algae on floor, damage to floor and it being patched and foam to walls.
I don't remember if the shot showing the rust is in one of these. The red dirt spills over at each seam and can be seen in some.
My question is: Is it okay for them to put my new liner over this black and green algae and onto the damp bottom/floor?
Temp should hit 70 today with 70's next few days and rain.
Thank you as always,
Joan
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I hope I hear from some of you soon because they just pulled in my driveway. I will question them heavily again on covering the algae. They still have patching to do before they can actually install the liner.
It also rained again this morning so there is a little water in the hopper to be pumped out.
I can't believe this is okay. My last liner was put in, in the spring when these issues didn't exist.
If you look back at my other posts and problems you'll see that I had a two trees come down and damage my pool house and pool back in March and April of this year.
It's been a fiasco with my insurance company and then trades people since trying to get things repaired. I thank all of you for your support through my chaos with this situation.
TODAY the 3rd pool builder should be coming to finally install my new liner. He actually is sub contracted by the pool store here. He's very nice but I want you, my experts to reassure me that what he wants to do is okay.
Due to the fact that my pool was finally drained in May, it deteriorated under the liner. This is what I was told by this PB and the pool store contractor. Lots of rain water got in under the liner and along the sides due to the sides being cut for measuring for new liner. Pool has actually been pumped out a total of three times with various amounts of water in it. Center of floor is in good shape, no algae or stains. Walls have red dirt from wash over or possibly ants but only one spot of rust which was about 4 inch circle. They sanded and sprayed with rust oleum.
They cleaned all the walls, scraped the floor very well and hosed it down. They put in a good days work doing this plus patched all the areas that they scraped out. The holes you will see in the photos were mostly scraped out by them because they were "loose", needed to be new material. I felt good about how thorough they were being.
Until I asked about the green and black mold that is. The main gentleman told me both are actually algae and if the sun was out and hot it would have been gone by the end of the day. Alas, but it was only 68 degrees, cloudy and beginning to sprinkle. I said I'd like to bleach it, he said it was fine to cover it with my new liner and it would not go through the liner into the water. Oh, and he said it was okay to put the liner over the wet floor that the wet would soak in.
I searched on the forum and found only two older posts similar to this situation. One of them the poster's PB did bleach or treat the algae before dropping the liner.
I've been through 7 mos of non sense waiting for this liner install and a whole summer without a pool, I sure don't want it to be done wrong.
Pictures are below. First pic is how pool has sat for 5 weeks waiting for them to fit us into schedule.
The others are work in progress showing the algae on floor, damage to floor and it being patched and foam to walls.
I don't remember if the shot showing the rust is in one of these. The red dirt spills over at each seam and can be seen in some.
My question is: Is it okay for them to put my new liner over this black and green algae and onto the damp bottom/floor?
Temp should hit 70 today with 70's next few days and rain.
Thank you as always,
Joan
- - - Updated - - -
I hope I hear from some of you soon because they just pulled in my driveway. I will question them heavily again on covering the algae. They still have patching to do before they can actually install the liner.
It also rained again this morning so there is a little water in the hopper to be pumped out.
I can't believe this is okay. My last liner was put in, in the spring when these issues didn't exist.
