NickDanger
2,500+ Posts
The parents have a place in the hill country. It has a spring that fills up a cistern for drinking water (very good btw) and when the cistern is full it overflows into what we call the "cement pond" swimming pool. It is an oval about 75' x 150' and about 7.5' deep in the center. It has no walls to speak of. It slopes down from 1" to the center at a fairly gradual pitch. It is hand finished concrete. No Plaster. No filtration. Too many gold fish IMO. Reinforced? almost certainly, but I have no idea how. It probably has almost no soil underneath it. Limestone. When it fills up, it overflows into the woods.
Once a year we drain it, muck it out and power wash it and refill it in what I call hell weekend. There are a fair number of cracks that have been filled in with various things over the years like silicone, etc and it always ends up getting pressure washed out or just deteriorates for one reason or another. I have pointed out that losing water really isn't a concern and the leaks are not causing subsoil problems (since there isn't any in my best guess) and they really aren't a cosmetic problem. I'd rather get rid of the stupid goldfish who won't admit they are shitting in the water. I know they are lying as goldfish are known liars. And shitters.
Anyway, pops always tries some half-assed attempt at sealing these cracks. The attempts are never truly water tight in my opinion. This weekend he will do the same and he is taking his advice from a couple of exchange students from Mexico who are in the U.S. studying the inner workings of the Western Union system for wring funds to foreign countries. They want to use the same stuff they use to set fence posts.
Any suggestions on something else to use that might be unobtrusive and maybe even effective and can get inundated within a day (the cattle get watered out of the pond so it has to get refilled with water pumped out of the river)?
I'd especially like to hear from L-H Pools, our resident pool expert if he has the time, but this may reallly not be a swimming pool suggestion. I'd really like to avoid putting a big black bead of something in them if it could be avoided.
Once a year we drain it, muck it out and power wash it and refill it in what I call hell weekend. There are a fair number of cracks that have been filled in with various things over the years like silicone, etc and it always ends up getting pressure washed out or just deteriorates for one reason or another. I have pointed out that losing water really isn't a concern and the leaks are not causing subsoil problems (since there isn't any in my best guess) and they really aren't a cosmetic problem. I'd rather get rid of the stupid goldfish who won't admit they are shitting in the water. I know they are lying as goldfish are known liars. And shitters.
Anyway, pops always tries some half-assed attempt at sealing these cracks. The attempts are never truly water tight in my opinion. This weekend he will do the same and he is taking his advice from a couple of exchange students from Mexico who are in the U.S. studying the inner workings of the Western Union system for wring funds to foreign countries. They want to use the same stuff they use to set fence posts.
Any suggestions on something else to use that might be unobtrusive and maybe even effective and can get inundated within a day (the cattle get watered out of the pond so it has to get refilled with water pumped out of the river)?
I'd especially like to hear from L-H Pools, our resident pool expert if he has the time, but this may reallly not be a swimming pool suggestion. I'd really like to avoid putting a big black bead of something in them if it could be avoided.
