Surprised the little fella found a crack I never knew about

Started by Earl Simmons · · 1 reply
Back to the forum
Reply
#1
Was watching it do its thing along the bottom steps Tuesday evening, just something to do while I had my coffee, and it kept bumping the same spot on the second step over and over instead of moving on.. went down and felt around and sure enough theres a hairline crack in the plaster I never noticed in thirty years of running my hand along there during brushing.

Not big, not leaking that I can tell, but it wouldnt of caught my eye for another five years probably. Grandkids bought me that Aiper for Christmas and I was pretty grudging about it at first, figured it was a toy. Didnt expect it to double as an inspection tool but here we are.

Anybody else had theirs find something you'd of missed otherwise.

1 Reply

#2
Earl, that's a good find for a thirty year old plaster pool, buddy. Before anything else though, did it keep bumping that same spot every single pass or just the one time you happened to be watching with your coffee. Cause mine will sometimes get hung up on a seam in my liner for a minute then just move along on the next lap, it's not always pointing at something real, sometimes it's just being a dumb robot.

If it's consistently going back to that one step every time it runs though, that's not nothing, I'd keep an eye on it even if it's not weeping water yet. My pool's above ground so I don't have plaster to worry about, but hairline cracks turning into bigger problems seems like one of those things that's way worse to catch late than early.