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    Ceramic waterline tile glaze flaking, crazing, cracking and chipping after less than 1 year (after pool was closed for winter)

    Hello, We just had a fiberglass pool installed with waterline ceramic tiles. Our installer closed the pool for the season (at which point the tiles were fine), but when they opened the pool this week, we noticed that the tiles are crazing, cracking and chipping, and in some cases, large hunks...
  2. kentompkins

    What would cause this multi stone linear coping crack?

    Started with a freeze. Grew with additional freezes. Not obvious to me why this happened. What should I look for?
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    Should I be worried about my vinyl liner bead micro-cracking? (pics attached)

    I have an AquaSport 52 with a good quality, thick vinyl liner. The pool is 4 years old and this year I noticed that on one side of my pool the very top of the bead on the vinyl liner is discolored/yellowed. To me it looks like sun damage. This is only happening on one side on about 15 feet of...
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    Deck cracking before pool is complete???

    I'm having these cracking issues pop up relatively quickly on one side of the pool, and would like some help on what I should expect from my builder. The deck was poured in December, but the builder is moving so slow that I haven't paid the final payment yet. Almost immediately after pouring we...
  5. bradgray

    50+ cracks in day-old Shotcrete.

    Greetings again TFP! My post today is filled with excitement and concern. I've done service and repair for pools for many, many years, and as of last week - the pool guy is finally getting a pool! I will concede, we are very good at servicing and repairing the systems of our several hundred...
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    Cracks in OK Flagstone

    Hello, we are in the middle of a new pool build in North Tx. They installed the flagstone coping last week and we have noticed 4 stones with cracks (several that go all the way through) and one that has a crack in the mortar underneath and it sounds hollow when we knock on it. Actually several...