Last month, Chris came into my office and showed me a video – our pool had a major leak! He didn’t know if it was from the liner or if a pipe had busted, so he went diving in the pool to find out.
Right inside from the leak he a found a tear in the liner. So, he grabbed the glue and extra vinyl (we had patched a hole last year), and went to trying to do the repair, but as soon as he touched it, it tore even more. And we realized this was not going to be an easy repair.
We already knew we were on borrowed time with the pool once we found a rusted spot at the far end after dismantling the previous pool deck. We just didn’t know what all would be involved with that repair – or if could even be done – but knew that the liner would have to come off and it might not go back on as easy as it came off. Now would be the time to address it though since the current liner obviously had to be replaced anyways.
So Chris got to draining the pool. It was such a sad sight.
But also eye opening for all of the problems we weren’t aware of. Water pooled in a few areas so he cut the liner to allow it to finish draining disclosing the spots that had washed out. One was around the floor drain, which is what he patched last year. We couldn’t see the bottom of the hole and had no idea how far it would go, leaving us to question how we were going to fix it.
The other spot that washed out was on the inside of where he spotted the leak from the outside and was severe enough that we could clearly see some of the metal framing.
Since we’d already come this far with removing the liner, Chris decided to continue cutting down the edges in sections, revealing tears in the foam wall liner and rust spots behind large sections of it. So it came down too.
Now that basically all of the pool’s trim pieces and guts had been removed, we finally had an idea of what we were up against and it was time to start researching how to do the repairs.
Brittany Bower 
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