Hi! I just wanted to wish you luck. I too bought a house that had a “derelict” pool this summer and had no idea where to start, and had every pool builder in the area laugh at me, avoid my calls, tell me to fill it in, or just never show up/return my call. Save for one....but then he disappeared.
I have a vermiculite bottom and polymer sides. There was a piece of a liner hanging on for dear life and a swamp in the deep end. I saw your photos and it made me have flash backs, lol.
Look familiar?
Ours had been sitting for a few years. Luckily, the lines had been winterized, so we didn’t need to replace the plumbing, but if you read through my first ever post
here, you’ll see everything else is shot. Our PB fixed the crumbling and damaged vermiculite, replaced some coping, and then SEVERAL weeks later put in our new liner. 4 water trucks later it finally looked like a pool.
However, it only looks
like a pool. It doesn’t actually operate like one tho! Pump, filter, patio, Polaris system, etc..all broken. We are shopping for a new pump/filter. Our patio will get poured any day now. We junked the Polaris and used the ports for LED lights.
Its been a long summer, and fall, and I am going out everyday to test the water, remove leaves, and “manually” circulate the water (just in time for Halloween, I’m out there like a witch stirring a 34k gal cauldron) while I wait for a new safety cover to come in. Ours is a “free form” custom shape so it’ll be a few weeks before we get it.
And hey! Like you, I also have a slide (I found mine in the woods behind our barn) that looks like it’s seen better days and will need to be refinished.
Anyway, the folks here have been great. I haven’t been made to feel like an idiot because I know NOTHING about pools, water chemistry, pumps, filters, etc. I’ve learned a lot. You’ve come to the right place!
Hang in there, brace yourself to spend some $$ (liners, etc, aren’t cheap), and read read read all you can. I for one am rooting for you! Next year we will both be enjoying our beautiful “new” pools, and all these growing pains will be a distant memory.