Hi!
We gave a 1960s gunite pool that we just had replastered. We also replaced the coping and tile. Its looking great.
This said I read that pools are supposed to have an expansion joint between the coping and the deck and ours only has grout. It never had the joint, not before the remodel and not now.
Long story theres been a vertical crack that keeps coming back for decades. It’s been fixed several times to include staples. The crack always starts at the deck slab and then the tile and downward. This time around we decided to dig the soil at that spot and check for roots and in doing so we found that the deck slab has a huge 1” crack really. So it looks like the weak point is there.
Could the reason for the pool crack be the lack of expansion gap? We didnt know that was necessary and have never been told.
How do we ho about creating the joint? We just remove the grout?
Thanks,
Andie
We gave a 1960s gunite pool that we just had replastered. We also replaced the coping and tile. Its looking great.
This said I read that pools are supposed to have an expansion joint between the coping and the deck and ours only has grout. It never had the joint, not before the remodel and not now.
Long story theres been a vertical crack that keeps coming back for decades. It’s been fixed several times to include staples. The crack always starts at the deck slab and then the tile and downward. This time around we decided to dig the soil at that spot and check for roots and in doing so we found that the deck slab has a huge 1” crack really. So it looks like the weak point is there.
Could the reason for the pool crack be the lack of expansion gap? We didnt know that was necessary and have never been told.
How do we ho about creating the joint? We just remove the grout?
Thanks,
Andie