My pool is about 4.5 years old and our glass tile is falling off around the spa. It happened once in a small area two years ago and we had that repaired. Now the entire spa is falling off. Top and the sides. The only tile that is staying on is the waterline and the back wall. It was a glass tile approved for pool use, but for some reason it started separating. Builder is of no help.
So here's my dilemma. Do I just replace the spa tile or do I go ahead an re-do the entire tile job? They don't make the tile anymore and I wouldn't want to use it if they did. Impossible to find a perfect match so I'd have to find something that's close to matching or just go with something that contrasts. I found a master tile product that we like, but the sizes are different. I'd probably use that if we did the entire pool.
Here's the other dilemma. The tile guy says the pool must be drained to re-tile the pool. I know very little about pools, so you always hear the horror stories of pools lifting or cracking when drained. I live in Austin at the top of a hill at about 900ft elevation. When they dug the pool, it was solid limestone. It literally looked like a limestone shell. You dig 6 inches you hit limestone in my yard. It took them a week with a rock hammer on the back of a tractor to blast enough rock away for my pool. My pool is only 5 feet deep at its deepest point. There is a water well about 100 yards from my pool and the water level is roughly 500 feet down. So I think I'd be fine, but I don't know. And I don't think the "tile guy" is going to warranty my pool lifting and being ruined. And I've found most pool companies don't want to touch it or they want to charge and astronomically high fee to make it worth their while. One guy wanted to drill holes through my pool shell to relieve possible pressure and patch it once done.
Thoughts to as why the tile is failing? It seems all the tile that is capped with Travertine is staying on. That's the waterline and back wall.
Think it would be a huge risk if I drained it? What's another option? I could leave some water in and create some scaffolding to walk on why they are repairing it.
TIA.
So here's my dilemma. Do I just replace the spa tile or do I go ahead an re-do the entire tile job? They don't make the tile anymore and I wouldn't want to use it if they did. Impossible to find a perfect match so I'd have to find something that's close to matching or just go with something that contrasts. I found a master tile product that we like, but the sizes are different. I'd probably use that if we did the entire pool.
Here's the other dilemma. The tile guy says the pool must be drained to re-tile the pool. I know very little about pools, so you always hear the horror stories of pools lifting or cracking when drained. I live in Austin at the top of a hill at about 900ft elevation. When they dug the pool, it was solid limestone. It literally looked like a limestone shell. You dig 6 inches you hit limestone in my yard. It took them a week with a rock hammer on the back of a tractor to blast enough rock away for my pool. My pool is only 5 feet deep at its deepest point. There is a water well about 100 yards from my pool and the water level is roughly 500 feet down. So I think I'd be fine, but I don't know. And I don't think the "tile guy" is going to warranty my pool lifting and being ruined. And I've found most pool companies don't want to touch it or they want to charge and astronomically high fee to make it worth their while. One guy wanted to drill holes through my pool shell to relieve possible pressure and patch it once done.
Thoughts to as why the tile is failing? It seems all the tile that is capped with Travertine is staying on. That's the waterline and back wall.
Think it would be a huge risk if I drained it? What's another option? I could leave some water in and create some scaffolding to walk on why they are repairing it.
TIA.
