Swimming Pool Plaster
No single pool repair that you can do will make your pool look more beautiful than re-plastering your pool. You may have forgotten how beautiful your pool can be, and pool plastering takes only a few days to do and you’ll be back in your pool all your swimming pool repairs needs. We specialize in the pools exterior renovations such as pool plastering and swimming deck.
Steps Involved in the Replaster of Your Pool
- Draining the pool is the first thing we do. We do this at night and we’ll begin working on your pool the following morning.
- The next step is cleaning the pool because there can be no oil, dirt, or any other stains on the sides and bottom of the pool. We then acid wash and pressure clean the pool to clean and prep the pool to be replastered.
- We spend quite a bit of time going over all the surfaces of your pool looking for hollow areas, and we’ll break them out and prep the area to receive the new plaster surface.
- If we’re replacing the pool tile as part of the pool remodeling, we’ll remove the old pool tile. If not, we use concrete saws to cut around all the tile where they meet the pool plaster and prep the edges so the plaster will bond to your existing tile.
- Installing new pool tile, if necessary, is the next step, as well as any other pool accessories like skimmers and main drains. If not, we’ll do the same prep around your existing fixtures as we did around the pool tile.
- Applying the bond coat is the most important step in the pool plastering process, because it’s important that the new pool plaster bonds to the existing plaster that’s left after we clean the pool.
- We then apply 3/8” to 1/2” of plaster to all the surfaces of your pool, and we spend quite a bit of time making sure all the surfaces of your pool receive a hard trowel finish.
- The most important step is refilling your pool with clean water, and balancing the chemicals in your pool. This is very important because the new pool plaster must cure correctly.
- Brushing your pool surfaces that have been plastered is very important to get rid of the plaster dust which collects in the bottom of the pool, and is easily vacuumed away.
- You can begin swimming in your pool as soon as it fills with water and the chemicals have been balanced correctly.