At what age of your pool do you start to worry about it's integrity?

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linda1

linda1

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Mar 26, 2010
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Our pool was installed the spring of 2010. I have a deck completely around it. Lately with the posts about rust, they have me thinking about the age and condition of my pool. I have a panel opening where the return and skimmer is and the pool wall looks ok. I see a tiny bit of rust on the channel the wall sits in. I've been trying to get one of my kids or older grandkids to get under the deck and crawl completely around it and check things out, but no one wants too. They think I'm just a worry wart. At 70 and with a bad hip, I can't do it myself.
 
Linda,

What would you have done if the kids said there was a lot of rust? Was your plan to tear it down and replace it?

If this were my pool, and knowing that it will fail at some point, I would quit worrying about it and enjoy swimming until it failed... :)

Thanks,

Jim R.
 
Jimrahbe said:
Linda,

What would you have done if the kids said there was a lot of rust? Was your plan to tear it down and replace it?

If this were my pool, and knowing that it will fail at some point, I would quit worrying about it and enjoy swimming until it failed... :)

Thanks,

Jim R.
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Yes, if the pool was found to be full of rust, we would replace it. My husband said the same as you, just stop worrying wand use the pool.
 
Pool_Medic said:
Careful of that advice, when failures occur they can be slow or sudden, injuries could result.
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This is why I'm trying to check things out and find out what shape the walls are in . I have no signs to point to a problem, but with this being the 10th summer of it being up, I started thinking and wondering about the average age that rust starts to become a problem.
 
I’ve heard of above grounds lasting 15 years. It really depends though, on location, weather, humidity, and more. The biggest thing with above grounds is wall integrity and the only way to truly see what shape the walls are in is to pull back the liner.

Every liner eventually gets holes, and if they go un-repaired the water can cause damage to multiple pool surfaces. If you are close to a liner change, you could use this opportunity to inspect all of your pool walls. Surface rust can be sanded and repaired relatively easily, it’s when the rust has eaten holes through the wall that serious structural damage can occur.
 
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Liners don’t really have a specific life. The life of a liner depends on many different variables, such as:

Amount of direct sunlight
How well you monitor and repair
Insects
Chemical balance
Etc.

An average life for a liner I would say anyway in above grounds, is 5-6 years. You can get more out of it, depending on how well you take care of it. If you are having issues with liner integrity such as many hole patches and unsightly fading, it may be time to replace your liner.

Then again, if your liner is in great condition with little to no fading, you may can get more years out of it.
 
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