Spring is coming and lots of folks will be building new pools or landscaping around their existing ones. We all know that "lazy root" trees like Pine and Ficus cause damage to decks and pools areas, but lots of folks think that Palm trees are safe because they don't really have "roots".

 

What do you guys (and gals) see around pools that cause problems?  I'm going to attach a pic or two of the stuff I see here, but would be interested in seeing/hearing what you have to deal with also.

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  • That was an existing pool that I was called on to repair.  The planter area was a spit of ground in a sea of concrete, with no irrigation whatsoever present.  The trees got water when the H/O remembered to water them!  Wanting to live, they decided to seek water and must have known it was just on the other side of the wall! 

     

    The crazy thing was that they came right through the shotcrete!  That was a single pour cantilever coping, so not a setting bed like regular coping material, and the roots found their opportunity and went for it!

     

    I just hear so often that palm trees are safe around pools, which I know is not true.  These pictures show that pretty vividly. 

  • Is the sheering only right at the planter, or is it also present elsewhere?

     

    Is this new construction, or remodel? Could the bond beam have gotten ripped up during demo on a remodel, and then the coping simply formed on top and poured into the voids all at one time... 

     

    Are the roots causing the damage, or was the damage caused by something else, and then the roots are just "seeking water" and growing through the crack?

     

    Don't know personally (not a horticulture buff), just playing devil's advocate as to other potential things that could also be going on in the photos... and maybe the roots did cause the problem...

     

    I'm curious to know what others think as well.

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