rebar

Most of the way through a new VINYL pool install. For the coping/decking we are doing poured concrete. Our PB wants to do a 12" coping and a separate pour for the wider decking. Coping is cantilevered (styrofoam) forms. The questions are: 1) Should the perpendicular rebar be stubbed out of the...

New gunite pool construction (11x29 rectangle with sunshelf) with pool builder in Florida. Excavation and rebar phase completed about a week ago. Days after, the earth caved into the pool structure. It’s rainy season here and the soil is always pretty wet in this area. I can only imagine the...

Each prior rust stain has been drilled out and patched, but new ones keep popping up in different areas of the pool. Once known rust stains are properly repaired, will replastering or adding pebbletec prevent further rebar rust stains from appearing? Or will more major work need to be done to...

There's a line of brown stains that I've been trying to remove. It looks like rust (see pic above). I tried muriatic acid, chlorine puck, and vitamin c tablet without success. Any ideas? I'm thinking it might be rusted steel (rebar) coming though plaster.

I just had the shotcrete on my pool completed a couple of days ago. The ten man crew was walking all over the rebar cage (as expected), but by the time the walls were shot, the floor was bent to the ground. I was reassured 3x that they would lift the cage before pouring the foundation, but by...

This gunite pool (Stonescapes or PebbleTec) was constructed 6 years ago. Pool was professionally maintained weekly, but home was not occupied by owners for 2 years. Owners returned to home in February 2022 to see evidence of infestation of subterranean termites in garage, inside house, and in...

I just have some questions about the skimmer replacement install today. Took out old cracked ones from my 1980's or older pool. Installed two Pentair Bermuda's. I know they are coming back tomorrow but I dont see any rebar in their supplies/equipment they left here. Do these look like they are...

I'm having a pool built in my back yard and I noticed what looks like a rebar stain on the side (see pics, below) Do you think this might cause a problem? The pool still needs decking and plaster. The builder started on this pool back in November of last year and is still at it on and off...

Is rusted rebar a problem before gunnite is sprayed?? I hired a pool builder who dug a hole in my yard and installed rebar. The builder collected the draw from my bank and never returned. The rebar and dig have been exposed to the winter weather for 3 months now... dig collapsing and rebar...

Hi Folks, Moved into our current house in November; noticed a few weeks ago that there is a tile missing from above one of the skimmer inlets. With the tile gone, the rebar is rusted and exposed. As far as I can tell, it's been this way since we've moved in (I haven't found any loose tiles)...