How to repair steel and polyester pools?

Welcome one more day to the Piscinas Salgado blog, your company dedicated to construction, installation, maintenance and repair of swimming pools in Barcelona. In today's new entry we will talk about the type of repairs that may need swimming pools steel and polyester.

Like this kind of swimming pools are not the most common, it is more difficult to know which are the type of repairs that they may need to have our pool of Barcelona in perfect condition and has a long useful life.

steel pools

The repairs that can have the pool steel of our home Barcelona They may vary depending on the type of steel installed:

  • Finished with PVC-P: in this type of swimming pools we can see that the steel is not in direct contact with the water of our pool of Barcelona, this makes the area that we have to fix is the PVC-P sheet. These sheets usually fail at the joints and it is possible to re-weld them during their first approximately 15 years of life. The repairs that are done later do not guarantee a perfect union and the best repair It is usually changing the coating completely.
  • Stainless finish: this type of swimming pools of Barcelona They have a drawback, despite being stainless, when they have been in operation for many years they end up rusting. Depending on the quality of the steel, pool you will need more or less repairs. The solution to this type of damage is to change the pool whole or place a PVC-P coating.

Polyester swimming pools

The swimming pools polyester Barcelona They offer great resistance, but over the years the surface wears out and various damage occurs, which is important. fix. The repairs most common are:

  • Repair of fissures: these fissures are repair sanitizing the affected area and applying multiple layers of polyester reinforced with fiberglass. If the fissure of our pool of Barcelona has been created by the settlement of the terrain will be much more difficult to fix since it will reopen.
  • Restoration of the coating: over time the polyester loses its properties and the surface film wears out and can peel off. For fix For these damages, the solution is to sand the entire surface, apply several layers of fiberglass reinforced polyester and finish it with pigmented resin.