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Remove Pool Liner

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What happens here

With the surrounding structure partially removed, the excavator begins to pull the large, heavy pool liner out of the basin. The liner, described as being made of gunite (a type of concrete applied by spray), often holds debris and water. If the liner tears during removal, manual intervention is required to cut it into smaller, manageable pieces for extraction. The goal is to completely remove the plastic liner and any underlying material to expose the raw earth of the pool's cavity.

Goal: The large, heavy pool liner, which is typically gunite underneath, is carefully pulled out of the pool basin using the excavator.

Tools and materials

  • Mini Excavator
  • Utility Knife/Blade

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So, what we're going to do is we're going to come in here. We're going to remove this swimming pool. We're going to remove all of this deck. So, we also want to get the liner successfully pulled out. Sometimes you have to crawl into the liner and cut it into two, three, four pieces and remove it by hand. That's not unusual. It doesn't matter how you do it. You just got to get it all to come out. If that liner shreds, so you can see there's muck on the bottom. That's mud. It's been sitting for years now. Um, if that liner shreds underneath that muck, you go fishing. You crawl down in there and you pull all that plastic out.

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