How to repair a structural crack in a swimming pool service?

 

You're saying here is the crack identified to place the scaffolding properly. The crew must chip out small indentations into the wall and floor of the pool. This will ensure the scaffolds do not slip while the men are mounted on top working. This type of scaffolding is called a lean-to scaffold. Once the crack has been identified, the first step is to vertically bevel out the crack or find the length of the crack, and you want to bevel that out.

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if at all possible you want to continue to make your bevel until you find the bottom of the crack some pool contractors will chip all the way through the gun item we typically tend to chip until we feel like we've narrowed the crack to a reasonable point and we have a decent bevel to work with the vertical edge of the crack has been appropriately beveled you want to start then beveling left to right these left-to-right bevels are going to act as the anchoring points for the rebar what you're seeing here is the chipping and the beveling of the crack in the corner of the swimming pool it is important that the beveling is deep enough to accept the number-5 rebar staples and that they would then be recessed as a finished product the area is then washed clean of any debris and loose powder from the drone okay folks so what we have here is a structural crack repair in the corner of a pool this is an extremely common area for a pool to have a structural leak what we've done here is we've beveled out all the different cracks in this case we have three structural cracks

 

that we're trying to address we have number five rebar literally bent into a staple what we have lalo here doing is he's now drilling the anchor holes okay and these staples are going to be what hold the crack together the other important point to recognize is these staples have to be anchored with a two-part anchoring epoxy that is the next step identify your crack bevel out the affected area and then start inserting your staples Anker epoxy expands as it cures this is a two-part epoxy which is very strong and has an extremely high bond strength the rebar staples then function to hold the crack together it is very important that each staple is beat in and deep enough to structurally support the shell of the pool however to also be recessed enough where the finished product does not show the repair so what we have now is our stapled repair is in the middle part of being completed we have the crack beveled we have the number five rebar staple installed along with the anchor and epoxy and now what we've done is we've beat these things into submission the next thing to do is to paint the Steel so that it does not rust inside the plaster this is very important if we do not do this then the Steel will rust inside the plaster and the repair is less effective once we've painted over this we're going to pack it with a

hydraulic cement and plaster over it okay once the rebar staples are anchored with epoxy and painted with a rust-resistant paint what we're doing now is recovering the pins with hydraulic cement this is going to prevent rust as well as the longevity of the repair this is a significant step in the process at this point in the job the staples are in we packed it with hydraulic cement and we're gonna wait about five or 10 minutes and then we're gonna sponge it down with a sponge application a rapid set or hydraulic set mortar is then used to make the patch on top of this the pool be finished in white plaster pebble glass or some other finish of the clients choice at this point the project is ready to move on for plaster.