So I have a vinyl lined below ground pool that came with the house when I bought it. It was installed a long time ago and the neighbors say they think the pool is made of metal sheets underneath.
The construction of the top of the pool looks something like this:
Where the blue is the liner, the black is some kind of rubber seal, the grey is metal skirting that goes around the top and the red is the tile above. I have no idea what is above the vinyl liner and behind the metal skirting.
I have always been paranoid about water getting underneath the pool so I drain it when the rain fills it up too much, except it's been raining for days in my city with flooding everywhere and there has been a lot of water to deal with. This morning when I went to drain some of the water back out, I turned the pump off, swing the multi valve to back wash, pump power back on and I got a fault light on the pump and it wouldn't run at all. Possibly water got in the electronics due to all the rain. (I have been trying it all day and it magically started working again this evening)
I wasn't able to drain the pool so it filled up until it was overflowing across the tiles, and it had been like that for maybe 10 hours. I went to have a look when there was an hour or so break in the rain and the water level had dropped back to the top of the vinyl, which suggests that a lot of water has seeped inside underneath the pool.
Should I be worried about rust now? I have no way to get access under there without jack hammering tiles up and even then I don't know how much space there will be.
I don't even know what to tell the insurance company.. "my pool flooded and now after an unknown amount of time I'm going to step through the bottom due to rust"
I'm worried that this has massively reduced the life of the pool and there's nothing I can do about it other than fork out $50k in a few years time to replace it.
The construction of the top of the pool looks something like this:
Where the blue is the liner, the black is some kind of rubber seal, the grey is metal skirting that goes around the top and the red is the tile above. I have no idea what is above the vinyl liner and behind the metal skirting.
I have always been paranoid about water getting underneath the pool so I drain it when the rain fills it up too much, except it's been raining for days in my city with flooding everywhere and there has been a lot of water to deal with. This morning when I went to drain some of the water back out, I turned the pump off, swing the multi valve to back wash, pump power back on and I got a fault light on the pump and it wouldn't run at all. Possibly water got in the electronics due to all the rain. (I have been trying it all day and it magically started working again this evening)
I wasn't able to drain the pool so it filled up until it was overflowing across the tiles, and it had been like that for maybe 10 hours. I went to have a look when there was an hour or so break in the rain and the water level had dropped back to the top of the vinyl, which suggests that a lot of water has seeped inside underneath the pool.
Should I be worried about rust now? I have no way to get access under there without jack hammering tiles up and even then I don't know how much space there will be.
I don't even know what to tell the insurance company.. "my pool flooded and now after an unknown amount of time I'm going to step through the bottom due to rust"
I'm worried that this has massively reduced the life of the pool and there's nothing I can do about it other than fork out $50k in a few years time to replace it.
