DEFECT: "Concrete Cancer" Pools in Texas

[lkage (Larry Kage, CMI)]

Concrete cancer in pools

The technical term is Alkali-Silica Reaction (ASR) and if the pool has it, the remedy is almost always demolition. It’s been found in Austin from 2017-2023 and the most common cause that I have heard so far has been a lack of fly ash in the mixture. The stories I’ve heard about and read about sound like nightmares and it happened to a friend who spent $70k on the pool, only to have it completely demolished less than a year later. The only way to definitively diagnose it is with a core sample bu…