Pool light conduit leak

[Edt1129]

The conduit to my pool light burst and caused a deck to sink and the stamped concrete to sink. 2 years ago I had pool resurfaced and they removed the lights. I’m not sure if the conduit was originally sealed or not. But never had a problem for about 17 years until this pool guy resurfaced pool. The bottom of his bill states that if anything was wrong while they were doing the work they would fix it and there could be additional charges. Am I wrong to think the pool company has some responsibility here since they removed the light and put it back without sealing pipe? The owner of pool company told me it’s the original electrician fault when pool was installed years ago. He said he has 4 other customers that this just happened to. When I asked if electrical conduit should be sealed he wouldn’t answer me. The contractor that came with an excavator to find problem said I might want to call a lawyer or my homeowner s insurance and let them probably take him to court. Anybody else run into something like this.

 

[Texas Splash]

Let's get this topic going. So your light conduit would be glued in several pieces/lengths as it travels from the equipment pad to the pool itself where it is then glued to the rear of the light niche. Of course it should be water-tight from the niche to the J-box back at the pad because it's normally full of water - unless there's a break in that line resulting a pool leak.. Keep in mind the break could be anywhere on that conduit line, but often times it right where the conduit enters the rear of the niche. The conduit can break there, or even the niche itself can crack from the pressure/tension of soil shifting.

What I don't understand how a contractor doing decking work could cause such an issue. Did they bring some heavy equipment onto the yard or something? Has anyone pinpointed the exact location of the break?

 

[1poolman1]

The conduit to my pool light burst and caused a deck to sink and the stamped concrete to sink. 2 years ago I had pool resurfaced and they removed the lights. I’m not sure if the conduit was originally sealed or not. But never had a problem for about 17 years until this pool guy resurfaced pool. The bottom of his bill states that if anything was wrong while they were doing the work they would fix it and there could be additional charges. Am I wrong to think the pool company has some responsibility here since they removed the light and put it back without sealing pipe? The owner of pool company told me it’s the original electrician fault when pool was installed years ago. He said he has 4 other customers that this just happened to. When I asked if electrical conduit should be sealed he wouldn’t answer me. The contractor that came with an excavator to find problem said I might want to call a lawyer or my homeowner s insurance and let them probably take him to court. Anybody else run into something like this.

Conduit burst? How did that happen? Is this a vinyl liner pool with a plastic light niche? They have been prone to have the niche break where the conduit is attached. Is that what happened?

 

[Edt1129]

The pool was being resurfaced and pool company pulled lights out. I would assume the hole in the housing for the conduit where the wire goes thru was either sealed and they removed seal or if it wasn’t sealed they should have sealed it. The pipe broke about 3 feet away from pool where concrete ends. There was a deck with a tiki bar that started sink after they did the work on pool. I can’t imagine the pipe was ok for about 15 years and right after pool company is done I have problems.

 

[Texas Splash]

Looks like you tried to post a video but it did not upload. Perhaps you can post a link? Any pics may also help.