Repairing Above Ground Pool Rusted Walls

Start simple you can actually patch up very minor rust spots and tiny holes with all weather duct tape or aluminum tape.

Repairing above ground pool rusted walls. Your wall repair kit is just a phone call away. Hargreaves steve above ground pools repair all metal side wall problems above ground pools. At some point in the life of your above ground pool odds are that you will start to see rust form around your skimmer. I now manufacture these repair kits because it makes no sense to scrap a pool for a small area of rust.

This occurs as moisture gets between the liner and the pool wall. It is easiest to repair a rusting above ground pool while the rust spots are small. Just answer a few questions like how many feet of wall is rusted. Under these conditions the wall panels will almost never rust and certainly would not fail structurally.

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. If you keep in mind that most of the water pressure on the wall of an above ground pool is on the lower half repairs on the upper. All wall kits are filled to order in one to three day and shipped out to you. Above ground pool rust around skimmer.

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. If you catch it in the early stages the repair. I have come across hopkinspools which offers aboveground pool wall repair kits and a good video of an above ground pool wall replacement with new skimmer and wall returns. 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.

This concludes the instruction for repairing the rust around the pool skimmer and the return jet and any hole in the side wall for instruction on how to replace a whole section please read on. 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. Darius i had the same problem and fabricated a stainless steel panel to repair the wall. Most of the time this moisture is as a result of a leakage around the skimmer or return fitting or a small leak in the liner.

How tall is your wall 48 52 or 54. Most manufacturers and retailers do not sell pool walls separately or if they do it costs of the price of a new pool. While the thought of taping pool sidewalls may raise. How to repair an above ground pool with rust on the pool walls.