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Ok thank you that helps! Yes, we want to replace it even now but the pool company is slammed so we’d like to see if we can get through the summer without this crack reappearing in the pool. They tried their best I think but we just want to also repair the deck to give it an extra chance. 🤷‍♀️...

Thank you, do you think filling the existing crack you see under the slab with hydraulic cement would be the right thing to do? Should I just use that to fill the slab crack as well or make that into some form of expansion joint? Sorry about all the questions!

See a few from today, again consider that before the remodel this crack would go through the old coping and then down the tile and down the top foot or so of the shell inside the pool. It always looked like the rest of the vertical crack was mostly just hairline plaster crack. But at the very...

No horizontal cracks, just that vertical crack that starts very wide at the slab — over 1” wide and 4” deep. Basically the slab is fully cracked at that spot. We dug under the slab and we can see that the crack runs through the bond beam and then tappers off at the shell level and becomes...

Not sure what you mean by gravel, that’s the top texture of the slab, rainbow pebble. It’s a common style for 1960s pools here. The coping is 12” wide and the slab around is poured cement about 2’ wide and 4 inches thick. There is no joint between the coping and the cement slab.

Got it, thank you for the links! Weird question I know, but does it make a difference if we add the staples to the outside of the pool shell vs the inside? Or is it safe to say that regardless they will help stabilize the crack? Also, what’s your opinion about adding an expansion joint to the...

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Thank you! Here are some, I’ll post better ones when I’m back home. But you can see what it looked like without the old coping, and then with the new coping and also a close up of the crack in the deck slab where the pool usually cracks. We think it may be the deck moving that leads to that...

Hi! We gave a 1960s gunite pool that we just had replastered. We also replaced the coping and tile. Its looking great. This said I read that pools are supposed to have an expansion joint between the coping and the deck and ours only has grout. It never had the joint, not before the remodel and...