Anyone who lives in Hollywood knows the challenges with traffic, thin roads and rough pavement.  Navigating your way to a job in a swimming pool truck carrying construction equipment and parking could be a challenge.  When you arrive however, you see why everyone wants to live there. Beautiful old houses built on tricky landscape with views that will absolutely blow you away. Adding to this beauty and charm, are the old swimming pools that are neatly carved into the hills.

Swimming pools that are built near steep slopes better be built properly or the homeowner is going to run into very big problems. One such problem was a crack repair we performed a number of months ago.

After performing a complete pool leak detection for a customer, all plumbing, skimmers , lights and fittings were ruled out.  We did however find a major structural crack that was leaking bad. We repaired the crack using Torque Lock staples  and everything was good. Four months later we were called back to the same location to find the structural crack we repaired to be holding fine but a major leak had developed in the main drain line.

The customer had two choices:

1. cut through the shell of the pool to access the line, repair it and live with a cosmetic patch or

2. run Pipefuze pipe repair injection system through the line to seal the leak.

We were able to actually see the break in the line with pipe camera technology and felt quite confident that the pipefuze system would work.  It’s been two months since the main drain line was repaired with Pipefuze and boy do we have another happy customer.

Caltech Pools