My husband asked that I get advice quickly. I'll take private text and emails if anyone wants to give an opinion. We have a concrete contractor at the our pool now removing some of the slabs surrounding our inground pool. These slabs have settled and we feared more settling will occur. Around the skimmer, the concrete was crumbling and when my husband began to chip away at it last week, he found a lot of the dirt and sand had washed away and at that point made the decision to get a contractor involved. The contractor began jacking out the old concrete and discovered the spa area was built wrong (his opinion). The wall of the spa is actually a poured wall. He began to cut away and realized that replacing the concrete will not be simple because he cannot pour a slab to connect to a vertical wall. His solution is to pour a slab which sits upon that wall, which would raise the depth of our spa on only one side and would eliminate the coping. What a mess. He broke the skimmer pulling out the concrete. He wants a decision immediately and I'm not even sure how to attach photos.