Is this a normal variation? Liner lock and excess mortar

mlafayette

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May 30, 2020
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Oxford, MS
Hi everyone. I am new to the forum and thankful this site was recommended to me. Pool started in August of 2019 and have had 4 leaks since install—hopefully all fixed as of 2 weeks ago. Concrete has been tore up and Quick Crete placed in areas that are obviously different from the semi colored concrete we have. The pool contractor does not seem concerned by this and we are now looking to repaint/recover that. However, we are finally in the pool with the kids and there are 2 areas in the deep end of the pool where the water appears unlevel and discovered these two areas to have either excess mortar to fill in the gap between the pool and travertine? I asked about it and was told it was the liner lock. I looked more closely and it appears there are two different types of liner lock installed? It’s harder to notice on the outside of the oool but is obvious on the inside or sitting on side. I am unsure if I should just let this go as a normal variation of pool install or be more persistent on having this fixed? It annoys me and cosmetically, to me, looks awful. The crew that was hired to do our job was fired immediately after install because of the “poor work” (per contractor) that was performed and we have continued to suffer from this with leaks, concrete nightmare and now this. I tried to get some pictures yesterday evening. It’s hard getting them to represent the whole picture outside of the pool. What do y’all suggest or what would you do if you were in my position?
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Can you repost your pictures again? Some of them don't open up. It may be due to the server changes that went on recently.
 
It may be ugly but I am not sure what can be done now unless the builder wants to buy you a new liner and reinstall it.

@jimmythegreek is this fixable?
 
I had to really look carefully but I'm amazed. They used cantilever coping track amd did the worst job I've ever seen. I'm sorry to say that....sounds like you got hosed by these guys. The only way you would have those gaps is the coping is also unlevel. You do get small caulkable gaps on bends it's the nature of the beast but not that. To top it off that one pic the track is inside the wall top. That is whats bulging the liner. A macgyver fix would be some sort of trim mouldings under the coping to hid it all. On stairs sometimes you need this I've used automotive trim glued in place but never tried it on a liner. The glue might melt the liner. The fix is removing the coping and liner+track and installing it right. Chances are the deck wouldn't meet up amd then you are fixing that too. This guy should not be anywhere near pools I'm blown away by the pics
 
It’s very disheartening to know we spent so much on this with such poor workmanship and I have no clue how to install a pool. I have asked them to come out and try to make things right. Along with this we have had 4 leaks, light went out in the deep end and we’ve had the pool in working order for 3 months.
 
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