Help. Large glass table flew into inground 36'by18' pool

[Watermom]

I think this is the third incident, counting the one Ben had to deal with, that we've heard of this year on the forum of broken glass in a pool.

The only other suggestion I have is that after you have removed all you can see is to shine a flashlight into the water at night to make it easier to see any pieces you might have missed. I'm not sure that it will work, but I think it would.

Good luck. What a pain to deal with.

[JimK]

While I was fortunate glass didn't get into the pool, a few years ago we had a big storm that smashed my glass top patio table into a zillion pieces that was sitting on a nearby brick patio. I spent over 4 hours vacuuming and revacuuming the brick patio with a shop vac to get rid of the glass. I swore after that I would never own a glass top patio table again (the new table has nice heavy tiles).

I wish I had an easy solution for you, but I was also thinking a battery powered device like Ben mentioned may work.

Let us know what you do and how it goes.

[outinaustin]

Since glass and sand are basically the same sort of thing, and about the same hardness, I vote for the bare vac. line method. I would make a filter sock out of screen to catch as much of the glass as possible after first getting the big pieces out by hand.

Tempered glass usually breaks into pieces the size of rock salt, so hopefully you can get it out without too much fuss. Take your time and grid out the area of the pool and do 1 grid at a time.

I think it might be harder to get clean with it drained than going about it full.