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fiberglass pool sinking

17 years ago

I had a San Juan fiberglass pool installed two summers ago. The pool seems to be sinking along with the concrete deck on one side of the pool. The difference in the waterline is about 1.25 inches beetween the shallow side and the deep. The pool installer claims that the tile fell but this is obviously not the problem. There are cracks in the concrete at the deep end at the expansion joints and around the coping on one side, but the rest seems structuraly sound. Can this be repaired? Do I have legal recourse? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Comments (15)

  • 17 years ago

    Can it be fixed? Yes, but it may require resetting. Hope you don't have expensive decking around it.
    Who's paying? Depends on the warranty terms.

  • 17 years ago

    Yes it can be fixed but I would tend to think that you may have some kind of plumbing leak that is causing the pool to "settle" on one end. are you losing any water out of the pool?

  • 17 years ago

    The only decking I have is the concrete slab which is also sinking. I would hope that they would pay for it, if not I guess I would have to bring them to court. The pool is not loosing water. I belive the reason the pool is sinking is because the ground sloped where the pool was built and a good amount of dirt was added around the pool. I think the dirt was not packed well and is settling which is causing the slab to sink and in turn is bringing the pool with it.

  • 17 years ago

    The chance that the weight of your concrete slab is bringing down your pool is pretty slim. The water in the pool weighs a whole lot more than the concrete on the edge of it. Was the tile put on the pool shell before or after the pool was installed?

  • 17 years ago

    The tile was put on after the pool was installed.

  • 17 years ago

    When the pool was "set", what material was used to back fill, sand or 1/8" gravel?

    Can you post some pix? Past and present will help us to help you.

  • 17 years ago

    The pool was backfilled with sand.

  • 17 years ago

    Was a sump installed? Is there water in it? As DonaldV asked, are you loosing water?

  • 17 years ago

    No sump. Not loosing water.

  • 17 years ago

    The only water source would be a drain that runs under the concrete decking which is abount ten feet from the pool. It is just a four inch pipe that runs to drain rain water.

  • 17 years ago

    Do you have a wide angle viewed picture to show us? We might see something.

    Can I assume correctly that the tiles were attached with the pool nearly full? All looked OK then and over time, the deep end settled with the concrete?

  • 17 years ago

    I will try to get a picture. The tiles were fine but started to come off about a year later but only in some places. It is the shallow side that is sinking.

  • 15 years ago

    my deep end is 4 inches lower then the low end of the pool is this dangerous. can we still allow the kids to swim in it. thank you

  • 8 years ago

    We are having the same problem. I would love to hear how others have handled it. we have one end about 1.25 inches lower than the rest. I suspect it is because of a lawn sprinkler (no evidence it is leaking but and it has great output on entire zone however it is directly near the issue. Anyway, how much to fix it?