Steel Wall Inground Pool Repair
Water behind the pool wall.
Steel wall inground pool repair. Leaks in the pool under normal operating conditions the steel walls in your vinyl pool are not in direct contact with the chlorinated water in the pool. Unpack the pool repair kit. The pool was built in the late 70 s. We carry a variety of shapes and size with different depths to fit just about any yard.
Apply the patch medium to the damaged area of the pool wall with a putty knife. Wooden wall replacement can be done for a single panel but for an entire pool it s best to rip everything out. The liner is the beaded type with aluminum combination bead receiver and bull nose coping. Mix the thickening activator with the included liquid rubber following the manufacturer s instructions.
Our 34 nb5004 3 599 95. Fill the crack or hole entirely. Our pool wall panels are made from 14 gauge steel with g235 z720 galvanized coating. If your inground pool wall is buckled you can remove the deck above first to take the weight off of the pool wall then you can work the wall panel with 2 4 s and a maul mini sledge to bang it back into shape.
Start simple you can actually patch up very minor rust spots and tiny holes with all weather duct tape or aluminum tape. Swimmingpools ingroundpool for more insight and to contact us visit our website at. The problem with rust developing on the pool walls usually starts with a leak in the pool that allows the chlorinated water to touch the. 16 x 32 rectangle steel wall construction with vinyl liner and fiberglass i think steps.
While the thought of taping pool sidewalls may raise. Older french drains installed during installation may be choked with soil and roots and some areas may not drain well or dry out fully. Both straight and curved wall panels have 7 strategically located holes at both ends ensuring positive and accurate alignments. In ground pool kits 12 x 24 steel rectangle inground swimming pool kit 6 radius corners.
Spread the patch mixture another 6 inches around the edges of the actual crack hole on the pool s wall. Not usually a problem with inground pools buckled pool walls normally happen on aboveground pool walls. Hello i bought a house with an inground pool 5 years ago just north of boston. For inground pools even though a concrete pool deck may cover the gravel and soils on the backside of the wall that doesn t mean that water is not moving through the area.
Under these conditions the wall panels will almost never rust and certainly would not fail structurally.