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Last week in Boulder, I had a customer's old clay liner start crumbling apart as soon as my brush touched it.
I had to stop the clean, explain the safety risk, and spent an hour on the phone with my supplier to get a liner quote for them by the end of the day, so has anyone else had a liner just disintegrate on contact like that?
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spencerl322mo agoProlific Poster
Yeah, that "crumbling apart as soon as my brush touched it" thing is a nightmare. My buddy had a similar job where the whole bottom of an old clay liner just turned to dust when he started. It was like trying to clean a sandcastle. He ended up having to vacuum out a pile of red clay sludge and the homeowner was just standing there in shock. Total mess and it killed his whole schedule for the day.
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norag551mo ago
Oh man, that sandcastle comparison is too real! What worked for me on a job like that was telling the homeowner straight up that we were dealing with ancient clay and it wasn't gonna hold up to any cleaning. I showed them the dust in my hands to prove it wasn't just me being lazy. Then I recommended a full reline with a pumice coating instead of trying to patch it. Saved us both a headache because patching that old crumbly stuff never holds anyway. Plus I got the job done in two days instead of fighting with it for a week.
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