Repair Work In he Pool..Philippine Style!

[GAZ5518]

Just watching these fellas repairing the tiles in the pool... Interesting way they deal with it..Just used white cement mixed with white grout, knocked up with pool water..but it seems as small repair has turned into a major..Now they have released a few tiles .. more are coming up... know how that feels!!
Hotel maintaince staff dealing with it..They get paid a day rate..try and guess how much??!!
Answers on a postcard..
Check out the pictures... if I can load them.
Video to follow but may be to large to upload..
Carry on working..lol

 

[Flintstone]

How they are gonna sort that out whilst it's full of water I do not know

 

[GAZ5518]

As you can see ... what they do is knock up neat cement/ grout... butter up Tile and then with scuba gear.. just take buttered Tile down ( not much of it seems to emulsify) )..and bang it in place... weight of water holds it in place... cement goes off under water.. job done....

 

[Dumbo]

Was told by ball years ago you could repair swimming pool with water in by usin

 

[Italy]

It could be, Pozzolanic cement.
But white, I have never seen it.

 

[GAZ5518]

Could be Antonio... I will try and find out tomorrow...

 

[Bill]

I have done pool repairs underwater with Ardex X7, done loads of it.

 

[GAZ5518]

I have done pool repairs underwater with Ardex X7, done loads of it.

Used lots of Ard X7 and Ardion 90 in the 80/90s....Doesn't it emulsify as it hits the water... ?... Interesting subject

 

[Andy Allen]

Surely the.pools full of bits of tile and cement after....

 

[GAZ5518]

Surely the.pools full of bits of tile and cement after....

I as watching carefully .. The tiles ( 8x4) were coming up either in a few pieces or whole , they were picking the old residue grout and adhesive up with their hands... There was a bit of "clouding " as they were re-installing ... but I imagine the filtration system will eventually take care of that..I too thought it was a bizarre way of dealing with it... But it must be a tried and tested way and work...

 

[Time's Ran Out]

In 1978 during those hot dry summers that we used to have , Ardex used Navy divers, X7 white on a tile in a plastic bag and took it down to repair.
Those days of water shortage, hosepipe bans and sharing a bath are sorely missed!

 

[Dumbo]

Was told by ball years ago you could repair swimming pool with water in by usin

Don't know what happened to post but should read . I was told years ago by bal you could repairs swimming pools with water in by using epoxy grout as an adhesive

 

[Dan]

I heard BAL recommend sticking the tile in a bag and then rip the bag open at the bottom but I guess if it's loads of tiles it's just best change the filter the next day or whatever.

 

[Bill]

Surely the.pools full of bits of tile and cement after....

We used to have a water vacuum that would suck up the bits of tiles, it wasn't great but it did a decent enough job of capturing the bigger bits then the pool had a time to settle, then a floor sweep was done and hopefully the filtration system did the rest.

The owner of the tile refurb firm became a millionaire, very quickly.

 

[GAZ5518]

Don't know what happened to post but should read . I was told years ago by bal you could repairs swimming pools with water in by using epoxy grout as an adhesive

That's how I always thought it was done...seems different methods are acceptable and work.. as is this case

 

[GAZ5518]

Update.... Back in Blighty now.. Didn't get to see end product ... But what I did see seemed to work...each to their own