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Originally posted by PSUscaper
I can't see how you are going to fix that and not end up re-installing that entire patio. By the time you dig that out and reset the pool it is going to be a mess. I'm sure your going to get subtantial cave in surrounding the hole.
Also, resetting the pool to the exact level it was at before so it lines back up with the brick sounds like a task I would want nothing to do with. Your also going to end up with all sorts of settlement issues in the future.
that just plain sucks. Nothing else to say. I've heard a lot of rumors of those fiberglass pools popping out of the ground, but never actually saw one in person. Now I did!
You may be able to salvage some of the patio, but I don't think it is ever going to be the same again.
How's the plumbing? I would be afraid that where the pipes go into the pool they got ripped out, and possibly cracking the shell where the go into the pool.
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We pulled off all of the patio on the lawn side and the stones that are lighter on the other side of the patio. The discoloration is from the winter cover. We removed the top course of the SRW and we're going to bury the first row with the Item #4 base material to try to avoid re-setting that. We removed the diving board concrete footing, as well as the ladders. We're in a little bit of a holding pattern until the CAT 317 shows up to pull it out. There are some more odds and ends we can do, but most of the prep to remove the pool is already done after about 10-12 hrs of labor.
We're going to dig two trenches to pipe ground water away so this doesn't happen again, and we're also looking into another system. We might dig one of the trenches before the 317 shows up.
Re: Plumbing, it's still attached and appears undamaged. fortunately we used K-flex 1.5" pipe for the lines. So far, we haven't seen any spider cracks on the shell by the bulkheads. There wasn't much force on them when it pulled up because of the slack that's in the lines and also with the dirt shifting seemed to help it up too. We will pressure test the system when its out of the ground definitely.
Re: Patio. Yes, it is going to suck to get it back to the correct height. However we're actually going to fix one thing we did wrong when we first installed it. We had the patio too low, we thought it would be better to leave the shell exposed at the top with a ~2" gap to the patio, but it was actually a nightmare to mate the patio to the pool. There is a nasty beveled edge and lip that interfered with the unilock patio. We're going to sink the pool 5" down to that we can use a full nose coping stone to set on top of the shell to correct this issue. My biggest fear is a collapse while the shell is out of the ground. We had nasty cave-ins when the pool was first going in, we had like 21 days of rain in a month and we couldn't keep the walls up. My thought was actually to look at getting a gunnite pool installer to come and shoot the slurry on the wall to try to hold it back. As for setting the elevation. We have the dig diagrams from the factory still. Plus I have my Lazer transit that can aid in measuring the height of the shell and we can adjust the depth accordingly.