Pool Heave

[1stgear]

PoolDoc,

I live in Baton Rouge Louisiana. In this state the courts have decided that contractor are not liable for soil movement. The reason I am going to fix this (or attempt to fix this) is exactly what you stated. It take more skill to fix a problem than not to have created it in the first place. So I know my contractor's limitations.

My plan is to plug of the return lines to the pool. I did this several weeks ago. This was the source of water getting around the shell. I will chart the pools movement over the next several months as the soils drys. Once any movement has ceased my plan was to drain the pool and excavate about 2 feet around the shell. I will then replace the clay soil with structural fill material. If there are any issues with this plan please let me know. I have no experience with this problem so I welcome advice.

I posted a reply yesterday but it did not make it. I am new to this so I am probably doing something wrong.

Thanks
1stGear

[PoolDoc]

OK. I think I understand.

But . . . you may still need to look locally for information. For obvious reasons, the skills to avoid (and fix) such problems aren't developed in the parts of the country which do NOT have expansive soil.

And, because this forum rejects a lot of the pool industries conventional wisdom about chemistry, it's not too popular with all the pool builders who sell pool chemicals via those standard recommendations. Unfortunately, most of the pool guys who do register, do so in order to shill some product they have, so they get banned.

We do have a few guys who are in the biz. I am, as are Waste and Waterbear.

But, my point is, that you may not be able to get the help you need here. You might want to try PoolSpaForum, which at least tolerates conventional pool chemistry recommendations, and is thus much more 'industry-friendly'.

Of course, I'd recommend that once you get your pool ready to run, you come back here in order to learn how to do so.

Good luck,