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A Basic Swimming Pool inspection - The Houston Home Inspector - YouTube
Channel: A-Action Home Inspection Houston
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We got Mike here he's with SwimCo Pools
and the pool that we came out today was
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green so as soon as our company comes
out we see the pools green we no longer
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try to take on this ourselves and we try
to call out an expert so or we tell the
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agent or the client to call it an expert
so they called out Mike and he's going
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to walk you through some of the signs of
the things he saw on this pool
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Going with a pool looks like this when
you walk up to it the first thing you
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see is oh my goodness I've got a cleanup
job in hand and that that would be
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basically a good thing in most cases if
it was just a cleanup but a lot of times
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there's so many other things that are
going on with a swimming-pool like this
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that the expenses get what quite a bit
larger depending on what kind of
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problems you experienced if one of the
good things about this particular pool
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is that it is still pretty level and it
is still pretty full of water as well so
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you wouldn't expect any major structural
leaks at this point in time there are a
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lot of cracks that are noticed around
the perimeter of the pool and those
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cracks are in an area that's caused a
bond beam area which is a separation at
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the top wall of the pool where the deck
makes contact to the pool and it's a
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common area when there's been some
movement around the pool that that area
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will separate but to repair it we
requires removing all of the coping and
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all of the tile and reworking all of
that area so it's a fairly significant
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remodeling piece of work so what would
you recommend for cost efficiency for
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cost on something like this I typically
recommend when it's this bad anyway that
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you're going to have to drain it and
clean it and look at the plaster look at
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drain covers look at lights all of those
things that you can't really determine
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whether they're working now or they're
installed properly you would really
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probably plan it as just sort of a
complete renovation project okay
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draining it replastering tile copping the
whole shootin match basically which will
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make it look like a new pool when it's
done but it's a significant amount of
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work to take on usually just to do it
draining clean somewhere about thousand
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dollars and when resurfacing resurfacing
for this sort of pool you're probably
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looking at somewhere like four to five
thousand dollars with a basic finish and
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then you're probably looking at a
similar number do the tile
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okay so just a basic project you walk up
and the pool is green and you got some
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cracking the equipment looks a little
bit older you're looking at it maybe
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about a 10,000 dollar project to get it
up and running and looking good again
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typically that's the case and then you
know a lot of it depends on once you get
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outside the pool you start looking at
the decking you know how how bad does
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that deck look to you to comparison to
the rest of the pool that I
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pressure-wise didn't clean it does it
need to be resurfaced are there areas
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where there's been significant movement
and just this there's a little bit
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around the tree but most of it is active
ship but on the far side of the pool
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where it's actually settled away and
that's probably an area that you would
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probably have to rework too so now
you've got some concrete work nice
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looking at the equipment on this
particular pool that's very simple
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because it just has a company filter and
both of those pieces of equipment seem
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to be okay and I was able to run it
because the house does have a little
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labor to run it long enough to make sure
that they do work okay a little bit of
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cleanup there so look like a lot enough
not a lot of expense in the equipment
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area but most of it is out here I've
always been taught whenever you're
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running the equipment on a green pool if
you have a lot of air bubbles after a
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certain period of time you have a lot of
air leaks or sealing leaks going to be
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true but they're come from a lot of
different sources and especially when
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you get with a dirty pool you're not
sure how the water okay really on a blue
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pool it's more even supposed to be
working properly and stuff if you see
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air bubbles that's typically something
that's my net but is that typically
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underground or is it normally at the
equipment many times I find them at the equipment
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pick up the equipment or they're cool
but when I usually have looked at a pool
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and I can't find anything that caused me
to believe it's a leak at the equipment
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area the skimmer
so that's Mike with Simcoe poles if you
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have any pull questions I recommend
a call and that's it go check out the
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rest of the house
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