Greetings all -
First off, let me express my deep gratitude for the generous and knowledgeable folks here. A couple years ago we bought a house with a large old pool (sand filter) that hadn't been used in awhile and I spent a lot of time browsing this forum as I got up to speed on maintenance, cleaning, chemicals, etc.
I'm now on top of all that, but we are faced with a pretty severe leak problem now and I have no pool experts in the area I can trust (we live in a very rural area of the deep South) so this place is kinda my last resort for figuring out what my options are.
Basically we have a couple of areas where the fiberglass walls have separated from the gunite floor due to a lot of soil movement behind the walls. I tried sealing it with a polyurethane seal that was mentioned here , but once filled the seal was broken by the expanding wall.
I'm trying to get a sense of where I can go from here. Is a liner an option? Should I try a more aggressive approach with the sealant? Is there any hope at all for our big old weird pool?
(it's about 40 years old evidently and very large and oddly shaped).
I've attached pics. Happy to post more if that would be helpful, and very appreciative of any insight or thoughts y'all might have.
-Chris
First off, let me express my deep gratitude for the generous and knowledgeable folks here. A couple years ago we bought a house with a large old pool (sand filter) that hadn't been used in awhile and I spent a lot of time browsing this forum as I got up to speed on maintenance, cleaning, chemicals, etc.
I'm now on top of all that, but we are faced with a pretty severe leak problem now and I have no pool experts in the area I can trust (we live in a very rural area of the deep South) so this place is kinda my last resort for figuring out what my options are.
Basically we have a couple of areas where the fiberglass walls have separated from the gunite floor due to a lot of soil movement behind the walls. I tried sealing it with a polyurethane seal that was mentioned here , but once filled the seal was broken by the expanding wall.
I'm trying to get a sense of where I can go from here. Is a liner an option? Should I try a more aggressive approach with the sealant? Is there any hope at all for our big old weird pool?
(it's about 40 years old evidently and very large and oddly shaped).I've attached pics. Happy to post more if that would be helpful, and very appreciative of any insight or thoughts y'all might have.
-Chris
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