Old Cement Pool Help

[brownsburg]

Hi,

I'm new the forum and to pools and I could really use some healthy opinions.

We moved into our house 10 years ago and at the time we were shown that there is a buried inground pool in the back yard. This year while we were deciding where to put the 27' above ground pool, we got the crazy idea of uncovering the old pool to see what condition it is in. It took three hours with the back hoe but it's done. Pictures attached. Considering the size of the crack down the one side wall, is this fixable? and at what kind of expense? the deep end at the bottom was also broken up a little to allow for good drainage. there are also a few fisher cracks here and there but I presume they are easily fixed.

The wall:

Cut the crack right out and recement?

The floor:

Same as above?

Could we not put sand in the bottom of the deep end to cover the missing cement as they do with some steel walled pools?

After the repairs we would probably just put in a liner.

Sound feasable?

at the same time, does anyone know what this 8" diameter pipe is for?

Thanks

[brownsburg]

I have a guy coming over on Saturday to look at the crack. He fixes municipal pools for a living so I figure his suggestion is solid.

I'll leave the photos up for entertainment value at the least and maybe add more as we proceed.

Thanks for looking

[brownsburg]

So it looks like this is fixable. The pool structure/cement specialist came by yesterday and said that the bad section could be cut out and the minor cracking could be filled in with epoxy or epoxy based cement.(not sure what he meant)

So it looks like the red portion gets cut out, new rebar, cement and a membrane on the outer portion.

I was thinking that after this, I would use a sealant on the whole pool called, "sani tred".

The rusted tube up the side wasn't attached to anything in the end, so that's not an issue and we did find the drain which seems functional and clear. I believe it's galvanised pipe because the section that sticks out up top looks grey and not very rusted. (I know that we'll need to pressure test this none the less)

So I'll get a price for the new section of cement and if it's not too much, we'll continue on with the restoration of the pool.

Has anyone here used Sani tred?

Thanks,

Bruce