Hello all. I’m not sure if anyone will even see my post at the end of this thread from last year? The system is telling me to start a new one, but it would take soooo long to explain. Well - it’s basically a year later and we are able to swim. The EcoFinish is fantastic and I can not recommend it enough. However - the doom continues. Because we took off the white plastic strip just under our existing coping (apparently left from the forms used to form the coping), a large gap was left between the coping and the waterline tile. Our tile guy (the second one with “so much experience”) was to have tiled over it. Because everything was finished so late last year, it all looked ok and we couldn’t use the pool, thus couldn’t really see under the coping ... we did not realize this guy had caulked a HUGE caulk line above the tile line. In fact, he used caulk to fill the gap inside as well. We now have caulk peeling and rolling off into the pool - and a long area where the tile is BUCKLING and coming off. Oh - and lots of cracked tiles where the expansion joints were grouted (not caulked, ‘cause that was used for the inch + line above the tile). It is all HORRENDOUS. I finally caved and got in this week, but my heart hurts with all the ugliness. We have heard from our contractor but not the tile installer. We asked that the work be done after Labor Day - but am honestly afraid we need to start over with the tile. For the third time. So ..... tonight while floating and looking at every single tile (I can’t help it. It’s an obsession now), I’m trying to figure out how new tiles can be placed on top of the existing tile. It’s not quite large enough for a whole tile (these are 1” x 1” glass mosaics) and it occurred to me that instead of tile .... maybe we could do lighting stripe under the coping which would cover this area? I’ve found Pal Lighting who does an UL listed LED strip for this purpose. The size would be perfect - BUT - I’m not sure I will like it. Has anyone seen this installed in person? I’m afraid it will look like we have a neon edged pool at night. Any thoughts on this would be very welcome!
Hope all of you are doing well. I’ve actually tried to log on for months, but kept getting error messages from Tapatalk.
Thanks for “listening!”
- Amy
on the trees! How do you even see the surface of the pool at all with all of the leaves that must drop! How often do you have to clean out the skimmer basket?
