Your pool is still a young pool, so I would expect there to be minimal rust and wood deterioration at this point in time. Your rebuild at 12 years of pool age should be easy (on a relative basis). Your next rebuild (at 25 to 30 years) will be the big one.

I thought the new style waterwall that you used was supposed to be an improvement over the FantaSea plywood waterwalls. I guess not. Not sure what the defect is related to the corrosion that you mentioned.

Make sure you take pictures of your rebuild as you go along and post them on this site. Your memory will fade over time on what you did, so a photo record is nice to have.


Remember that my pool is 30 years old, so age does take it's toll on the entire pool. I simply made a decision to replace the old wood (2" X 6", 2" X 4" and 1" X 6") because I did not want to touch the pool for the next 15 years.

The outer 1" X 6" wood was at the end of life. The 2" X 4" solar panel support located above the 1" X 6" trim was changed because of time management and fit and finish, and was not very expensive to change.

The 2" X 6" wood was in 8' sections, and was nailed into the 4" X 4" wall studs. Rusted nails, warping, nail rust damage to wood, water damage and split ends. We flipped them over at the year 14 rebuild and installed them with screws. After 30 years, there was no way to make a solid connection at the ends. I replaced them with a mix of 12' lengths and 8' lengths.

The 4" X 4" walls studs were inspected and replaced on an as needed basis (about 20%). Ant colony hidden in one of the studs located in the FantaSea poly wall supports.

Anyhow, the 30 year old FantaSea pool looks better after the rebuild than the pool looked when it was new.

When I get a chance I may post a few more photos of the FantaSea rebuild process. There is very little reference information about FantaSea repairs out there on the WWW.