I'm not sure where to post this. My pool is fine, my pool cage is hurting. A victim of hurricane Ian. The winds basically lifted my pool cage off the ground - and brought a section of pool pavers with it. My pool cage rests on my pool pavers. My cage was never secured to the concrete footings underneath the pavers. The pool cage was screwed only into the pavers on all three sides along the 1" x 2" bottom beams. Now I'm debating whether to tapcon the pool base to the cement footing. However my concrete footings extend only 2-1/2" - 3" out from where the screws were originally screwed into the pavers. Am I safe to replace those screws and drive a 5" tapcon that close to the edge of the concrete footing -- without cracking the cement? If I dont do something, I'm told the pool will continue to lift during strong winds. You have to better secure it - or secure it somehow to the concrete footing. Aye carumba! Thank you Ian.
Pool cage upheaval
- Thread starter Adwizard
- Start date
- Jun 22, 2014
- 47,854
- Pool Size
- 17888
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool RJ-45 Plus
BMerrill
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- Mar 8, 2021
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- Pool Size
- 17860
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Turbo Cell (T-CELL-5)
Recommend contacting the manufacture of the pool cage for their anchoring requirements.
jsygrls
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So Ian got us here too with 18 plus inch's of rain, we feel your pain. So I had some Tapcon heads rust and pop off lasy year, so 3 weeks before Ian I decided to replace them, so glad I did! However I did not go through any pavers . IMO I 'd be more concerned paver cracking not the concrete. So just maybe use a high speed drill for paver drilling( and Lanai metal footer) and a impact drill for the concrete drilling. I redrilled without and issues.
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Hi, thanks for responding. Unfortunately, the original pool cage company rep was a downright a**hole about everything. He wouldn't even come out to look at my cage unless I'd commit to their ballpark estimate over the phone. I told him to take a flying leap. I wouldn't do business with any company that acts like that. I don't care how busy they are. Or how good. Back to my problem, yes "gsygrls" that's exactly what I was told by another person. You'd want to drill through the pavers first with a high speed drill and only start the tapcon impact drill when you hit cement this reducing the chance of splitting the paver. And then proceed with caution and make sure you drilled at least a half inch beyond the length of the tapcon -- and make sure the hole was clean. No cement dust. Plus he said start in an inconspicuous area first in case there is a problem. That way it won't be a glaring problem visually if it doesnt work. My thought was to replace every other screw with a tapcon with the thought... "Even a few tapcons are better than nothing."
jsygrls
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What he told you is correct./ Do it.
Btw way do you have cable tie downs on the outside corners of your cage (stranded cable/guywires)? If so how many?
The sides of the cage that are NOT attached to the house should also have cables that are attached to the top side corner of the cage and come down at a 45 degree angle and secured into the concrete. Make sure those are anchored into the concrete and not the pavers with tapcons. If your cage has only two sides NOT attached to the house then you should have two cables. If you have three sides NOT attached to the house then there should be four cables.
I have three sides not attached to the house but only three tie down cables. (Hurricane straps) They are screwed into the cement base. Probably should get a fourth. Thanks for your reply.