Repair Steel Pool Walls

Spread the patch mixture another 6 inches around the edges of the actual crack hole on the pool s wall.

Repair steel pool walls. The tuscany steel wall above ground pool is the highest wall available at 54 inches of pool depth. Ok let s get started we ll start with the most common of all side wall problems and that will be rusted around the skimmer and return jet. Oval to fit in a smaller yard. Unpack the pool repair kit.

Get at least 30 stainless flathead steel bolts and nuts and four pieces of metal steel channel. If the rust goes all the way through the pool wall or the wall is rusted out you will have to patch the wall with sheet metal. Side wall rusted around the skimmer or return jet rusted to the point of rupture and actual rupture of wall. First you re going to place the new wall pieces on the inside of the pool wall and line up the metal channels to the edge of the wall piece.

Apply the patch medium to the damaged area of the pool wall with a putty knife. Leaks in the pool under normal operating conditions the steel walls in your vinyl pool are not in direct contact with the chlorinated water in the pool. Under these conditions the wall panels will almost never rust and certainly would not fail structurally. Down the road when changing a liner you may find some areas of rust on the walls.

Fill the crack or hole entirely. The problem with rust developing on the pool walls usually starts with a leak in the pool that allows the chlorinated water to touch the. Place the new wall piece against the pool s wall on the inside. This page will explain to you all kinds of steel side wall repairs here are just a few.

Lets talk about steel wall pools first. You ll use these to bolt your new piece of wall to your existing pool wall. Its innovative yardmore buttress system is a space saving design that allows for a bigger pool like an 18x33 ft. Then you re going to drill holes through the inside of.

Mix the thickening activator with the included liquid rubber following the manufacturer s instructions. If it is just surface rust so you can sand it down and put some rust oleum on it and glue wall foam over the pool walls and you re good to go. Wait until the temperature remains above 32 degrees fahrenheit and all the ice in the pool is melted. Leave the water in the pool until you re ready to repair the wall.