Local Pool Renovations
Melbourne's Leading Pool Renovators
Tiling - Painting - Resurfacing
Melbourne's Leading Pool Renovators
Tiling - Painting - Resurfacing
Pool tile failure caused by tiles installed over paint, demonstrating why proper surface preparation is critical in pool renovations
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Pool repairs come in all sizes, we can help with the little things like tiles coming off or loose pool coping that needs to be secured.
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Repairing your pool is usually best done in winter to avoid the summer rush.
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You can check on available colours or what the best chemical balance is for your pool, along with handy tips on how to maintain your newly renovated swimming pool.
Over time, most swimming pools develop issues. Pool paint can chalk, fade, or lose adhesion. Tiles may begin to come loose or fall off as adhesives fail. Marble-sheen and quartzon interiors can stain, crack, crumble, or delaminate. Coping stones may lift or crack due to movement or age. Pool lights can fail or leak. Calcium build-up can affect water clarity and surface appearance. Rust staining can appear where steel reinforcement has been exposed. Pools can also develop leaks that are not immediately visible but cause ongoing water loss and structural risk.
In many cases, pipe leaks originate around the outside of the pipe rather than from within it. This happens because concrete cannot properly adhere to PVC pipe.
Pool coping lifts or cracks due to ground movement, water penetration, or failed bonding. Once coping moves, water can enter the pool beam and surrounding structure. Long-term repairs must address drainage and adhesion, not just cosmetic fixes.
Swimming pool tiles fall off due to pool shell movement, or a combination where water is also getting behind the tiles. When one tile becomes loose, nearby tiles are often affected as well. Proper repair requires checking the substrate, not just re-gluing tiles.
If you are noticing less water inside the pool, and it happens to be more missing water than usual, you would be right to suspect a leak. Find out if your swimming pool is leaking by hiring a leak detection specialist. Swimming pool leaks can come from cracks, pipe penetrations, light conduits, or structural movement. Many leaks are not visible and worsen over time. Accurate diagnosis is critical to avoid unnecessary repairs and ongoing damage.
Calcium build-up in swimming pools is caused by hard water, high pH levels, or poor chemical balance. It appears as white scale on surfaces and tiles and can damage finishes over time. Proper water chemistry management is essential to prevent recurrence.
Non-tiled pool interiors show damage by crumbling, cracking, coming off and you sometimes notice bits of the pool interior inside the skimmer basket. Especially Quartzon interiors crumble or delaminate when the bond to the concrete fails due to age, moisture, or incorrect installation. Once this starts, it usually spreads across the surface. Full resurfacing is often the only long-term solution.
Rust in a pool surface usually means steel reinforcement inside the concrete has been exposed to moisture. It can be that the rebar was installed to close to the pool surface & as rust expands, it causes cracking and surface delamination, though usually you will see a circular point of rust and eventually a lineal rust. A hair pin that is unoticed on the pool surface can create a rust stain, or even something small like a screw that was accidently mixed into the pool surface interior and is now making itself seen. Proper repair of rust requires opening the concrete for full repair, removing or treating the steel and followed stopping moisture entry. Covering the stain with waterproofing or epoxy and no actual structural repair to the steel & concrete will not work.
If you would like some more information about rust in swimming pools, follow this button to our rust repair page.
Rust information pageA vertical crack behind pool tiles must be exposed, structurally assessed, and properly sealed before any retiling is done. The tiles and render are removed, the crack is repaired using crack stitching & epoxy injection depending on movement, then the area is re rendered, waterproofed, and tiled. Simply tiling over a crack will always result in failure.
