Fiberglass Pool Complaints

Matching Repairs

• One of the complaints about fiberglass pools involves color matching. If your fiberglass pool is colored, and many of them come in a range of colors, it can be an issue if and when damage occurs. If you need to repair your fiberglass pool it is sometimes difficult to find a perfect color match for the existing fiberglass. This may result in dark or light spots on the bottom or sides of the pool where repairs have been made to it.

Spider Cracks

• Spider cracks are another common complaint about fiberglass pools. People spend thousands of dollars on swimming pools and they want them to look great. But fiberglass will crack with use over time no matter how careful you are. Spider cracks are tiny cracks that form webs all around the fiberglass surface. The good news is these cracks are not harmful to the pool itself. They are only aesthetic blemishes. The spider cracks are merely cracks in the gel coat and not in the actual fiberglass shell. So there are no leaks or any kind of serious repercussions associated with them.

Fading

• After years in the sun fiberglass pools can and will fade. They will not always retain that lovely color you chose from the book when you ordered it. Unless you go with a white bottom pool you will encounter this problem with a fiberglass pool, and it is not a material that you will be able to re-paint. If you choose a darker color, the fading will be even more obvious than with lighter colors.

Resetting

• Resetting can be a major problem with fiberglass pools. The pool itself doesn't settle, but the excavated earth and the sand bed it is set on is often prone to shifting over time. This is especially true in the areas that have been filled in around plumbing and the shell itself. If this settling of the ground makes your pool move it can mean you must reset the pool, which can be costly and time consuming.