Swimming Pool Expert Witness

Why too many inches is a bad thing. More, isn’t always better.

Setting a drain sump above the steel can result in cracking of the floor. Read and understand why the codes & engineering demand you don’t.

Three Inches that Matter - Water Shapes There are moments in construction when the smallest decisions carry the largest consequences. In swimming pool construction, one of those pivots happens quietly, almost invisibly, at the bottom of the deep end when the drain sump is set in place.

Pipes in the walls or floors of a pool can cause cracks.

Even thick shells will crack.

Here’s proof… a few cores from destructive testing. We cored the crack to find pipes at the back of the wall & under the floor.