The second option is not to take the chance and get a whole new wall. Though, with this option, you may not be so lucky, because if it doesn’t hold, you’re out the cost of the new liner, the installer (if you didn’t do it yourself), and all the lost water and chemicals. Many times this is the best decision for them as the wall holds up and they get to have their pool. This is a viable option for many as they have already purchased a replacement liner and don’t have the money for a new pool.
#POOL WALLSAVER INSTALL#
You can tape over the rusty areas with some kind of sheet metal, install a new liner, fill the pool back up and hope for the best. What now? Well, there are three options at this point. Let’s say you have a lot of rust toward the bottom of your pool wall and it has rusted all the way through. I’ll show them the concerning rusted area, give them the odds of whether I think it’ll hold or not, and let them tell me either to proceed with the change of the liner or wait and get it repaired. Worst-case Scenario Worst-case Scenario Though, there is always the possibility that it won’t hold and I leave the decision up to them. I usually tell the pool owner about it, tape some tin over it, install a new liner and it holds. In most cases a small hole towards the bottom of the wall won’t cause a blowout. A rust hole at the bottom of the wall is much more likely to tear open under pressure and cause a “blowout” than one nearer to the top. The reason a hole lower down is concerning is because the water creates more outward pressure there at the bottom.
#POOL WALLSAVER PATCH#
If the rust holes are closer to the bottom of the pool’s wall, then that’s worse and should possibly require more than just a simple patch job. I do this only to protect the new liner I’m about to install from the rust as this repair adds no strength to the wall. A small rust hole that’s located high up the pool’s wall is usually alright.In that case I will cut a small square of roofing tin or some kind of sheet metal and use duct tape to secure it in place over I found the hole! That’s always bad, but you may still be OK. So you’ve poked around the rust and the screwdriver went all the way through in a couple of spots. It may not be the end, but it’s not good. If the screwdriver pokes completely through the wall, then that’s not good. Scrape off any loose pieces of rust and firmly poke those areas. To find out, take a medium-sized screwdriver and poke at the rust. A wall can look pretty bad and still be fine, but if there are spots where it has rusted all the way through then that is bad and cause for alarm. The wall of an above ground pool wall has to hold thousands of pounds of water so if the rust has eaten its way deep into the steel or aluminum, it may no longer be strong enough to hold the water. What’s important here is the wall’s integrity. What if it’s more than just surface rust? Maybe the rust is falling off in small pieces and looks pretty bad and deep. With surface rust you can maybe get some sandpaper, sand the rusty areas smooth, and then use that can of Rust-Oleum you found and the wall is good to go. Most of the time the discovered rust on the inside of the pool wall is just surface rust and not much of an issue. This blog post is about advanced wall repair for above ground pools, but before I can tell you about that you must find out if you need it. You’re Going to Have to Do Some Poking Around You start to ask yourself, “Is this normal? How bad is it? Can I fix this? How do I fix this?” As you climb out of the pool to go look for that can of Rust-Oleum you bought two years ago, you wonder how bad this rusty wall really is and instead go search on the Internet. You’ve already bought a pricey replacement liner. A sinking feeling is experienced when you see that the interior wall is rusty.
The pool gets drained and then the existing liner is removed which exposes the interior wall. Most of the time, a rusty pool wall is noticed when a liner is changed. And this is what makes an above ground pool no good anymore as it’s the wall that holds all the water. Mostly though, people decide that their pool is dead because it has a rusty or corroded wall. Sometimes pool owners will replace their pool because its top rails are too rusty or some of the uprights and pieces of bottom track have rusted out. I have observed over three decades that the average decent quality above ground swimming pool lasts between 10 and 20 years.
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