It figures.

Since I lived in my house, the pool has had a couple of problems. 1st, it has bull-nosed brick around the edge that is crumbling into the pool. 2nd, about a 1/3 of the tiles have come off.
I've been dreading the expense of repair, but finally had a bricklayer give me a repair estimate. I have 287 BN'd bricks around the edge of the pool. He estimates total cost of repair about $2000, which is about half of my expectations. That includes labor and materials to remove and replace all the brick and tile.

What figures is, he said he's never seen brick do what mine is doing and that the mortar used to place the tiles, must have been the wrong kind. According to him, if it had been done right, it should have lasted forever.

The previous owner, that installed the pool, had a knack for getting ripped off by various tradesmen. i.e. $1800 to install a new pool light.

i would be carefull if i were you with that quote seems a bit cheap meaning that the quality of the work is going to be inferior and not quality. Make sure the bond beam is rock solid, and if there isn't any hollow or lose weak areas that he addresses the bad areas by applying proper mortar and rebar if neccessary.

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Originally Posted by topless

Since I lived in my house, the pool has had a couple of problems. 1st, it has bull-nosed brick around the edge that is crumbling into the pool. 2nd, about a 1/3 of the tiles have come off.
I've been dreading the expense of repair, but finally had a bricklayer give me a repair estimate. I have 287 BN'd bricks around the edge of the pool. He estimates total cost of repair about $2000, which is about half of my expectations. That includes labor and materials to remove and replace all the brick and tile.

What figures is, he said he's never seen brick do what mine is doing and that the mortar used to place the tiles, must have been the wrong kind. According to him, if it had been done right, it should have lasted forever.

The previous owner, that installed the pool, had a knack for getting ripped off by various tradesmen. i.e. $1800 to install a new pool light.

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