{"id":56,"date":"2015-11-18T20:32:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T20:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2019-02-21T16:28:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T16:28:08","slug":"15-year-unused-rooftop-pool-revitalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/15-year-unused-rooftop-pool-revitalized\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Year Unused Rooftop Pool Revitalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For over 15 years this luxury pool located in downtown St. Paul, MN was left unused due to extensive leak issues that affected tenants three floors below the pool. This pool is located a top a luxury condominium tower and was completely drained due to the water damage it was causing.\u00a0The pool is a beautiful 24 ft. X 44 ft. pool with \u201cscum-gutter\u201d skimmer system, but for the past few years tenets have grown angry that this relaxing spot has been completely unused.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous easy to locate\u00a0leaks were found and repaired.\u00a0 However, the skimmer system continued to leak aggressively when water was added to bring the water level above where the skimmer met the edge of the concrete pool. This leak\u00a0was because the precast skimmer blocks that sat on the poured concrete pool had gaskets that deteriorated over time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15year2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15year2-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"15year2\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15year2-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15year2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quality Pools of Minnesota used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/product\/C102D.html\">Leakmaster\u2122 Injection Foam <\/a>from the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/product\/CK300.html\"> Crack Repair Starter Kit\u00a0<\/a> to repair the leaks that extended around the perimeter of the pool.\u00a0 This product was chosen specifically because of its expandable nature.\u00a0 Injection Foam will expand 20 to 30 times its volume and force itself into all sorts of small cracks sealing them off from the backside of the pool.\u00a0 This closed cell foam is water proof and would help seal behind the gasket in spots\u00a0that were not visible from the pool.\u00a0 This added waterproofing was extremely important due to the condo units below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15year3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15year3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"15year3\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15year3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15year3.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Small injection holes where drilled at apx. 1 foot intervals through the skimmer blocks. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/product\/CASP100.html\">Injection ports <\/a>where than attached to the surface using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/product\/C322D.html\">Leakmaster\u2122 Peel-and-Seal Surface Seal Epoxy<\/a>.\u00a0 Over 5 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/product\/C102D6.html\">cases of foam <\/a>was then injected through these ports to fill and seal the void beneath the blocks.\u00a0 Here are a few pictures that demonstrate how the non-water penetrating foam sealed even the smallest and most elusive of holes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Small hole between skimmer and concrete pool<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15year4sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15year4sm.jpg\" alt=\"15year4sm\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A series of large and small holes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15year5sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15year5sm.jpg\" alt=\"15year5sm\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Another elusive small hole<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15year6sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15year6sm.jpg\" alt=\"15year6sm\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After injecting the foam and allowing it to set up, the injection ports were removed leaving little residue since the Seal-n-Peal product can be cleaned off with a putty knife.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15year7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-59 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15year7-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"15year7\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15year7-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15year7.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the foam residue was skimmed off the water\u2019s surface, and a few cosmetic touches were made to the joint between block and wall this pool was back in use, saving the owner thousands of dollars in concrete 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This pool is located a top a luxury condominium tower and was completely drained due to the water damage it was causing.\u00a0The pool is a beautiful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}