What 50 years of Erosion looks like- just sharing our amazement

[bimmerboy]

As far as crack repair... they have a injected epoxy they use for basement wall crack repair and other structural repairs like bridge piling supports. They actually inject an epoxy into the crack that is supposedly stronger then concrete. Just a thought.

Here's a link I found on Google... http://www.emecole.com/

[ariasc]

Just following up on the comment from 'imfignewton'. My guess is that this pool is probably 10 years old... Just replaced the motor, but I have a concern regarding the sloping wall towards the pool. It's probably in the same shape as the pictures here!! You can see the thread I started here:

http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthread.php?t=1930

If you look at the attachment, the wall leans towards the pool on the right hand side of the picture.... Is time to call in the engineers?

[CallMeIshmael]

As far as crack repair... they have a injected epoxy they use for basement wall crack repair and other structural repairs like bridge piling supports. They actually inject an epoxy into the crack that is supposedly stronger then concrete. Just a thought.

Here's a link I found on Google... http://www.emecole.com/

Thanks Bimmer,
That's the kind of epoxy I meant for the bolted band. It's good stuff. We may still do a small concrete/cemented patch, as the engineer feels this would keep that crack from spidering off elsewhere.

And Ariasc, umm... in a word... YES :-> especially the last picture shows a huge drop in grade, and may be even more fun than ours! Consider it a great time to look into some upgrades in that area of the deck.

We are ending up completely removing 2/3 of the pool deck, and adding a lot of drainage, retainers, etc. The upside is that we can access things that were concreted in since we moved in 5 years ago. So in the process we'll be:
-Relocating the return (previously an unthreaded 1/2- 3/4 inch pipe!)
-Upsizing the return line (The old piping is 1"!),
-New light fixture/ wiring (has never worked- turns out it's both unwired & leaking- LOL)
-Solar heating panels with controllers
&
-A new view deck above the new retaining walls.

These benefits actually have me excited about this project now, though it's a lot bigger than we first planned. That first couple days was something else though!!