Pool Wall Rusted Through

[oldpool3]

We have an old pool at the house we moved into...been empty for a while. Want to put in a new liner but noticed a problem. The bottom of the walls in a couple of sections have rusted and no longer set in the lower track thing.

Is this a total loss? It is surrounded by a deck. I could place boards along the bottom attached to the deck posts and backfill.

Would this hold or fail in a spectacularly dangerous way?

No money to replace entire pool so its fix or to the dump with pool, deck and all.

Thanks

Gary

[ps558]

We have an old pool at the house we moved into...been empty for a while. Want to put in a new liner but noticed a problem. The bottom of the walls in a couple of sections have rusted and no longer set in the lower track thing.

Is this a total loss? It is surrounded by a deck. I could place boards along the bottom attached to the deck posts and backfill.

Would this hold or fail in a spectacularly dangerous way?

No money to replace entire pool so its fix or to the dump with pool, deck and all.

Thanks

Gary

You can try to replace the wall section that are bad with new steel or aluminum pieces. Use round head bolts to blot them together and pit duct tape over them before installing the liner. It does work, but may not look nice.

this is about the best way to do it instead of risking a pool collapse