Pool Surfaces
Pool surfaces need to be replaced and renovated, just like other parts of your home. Like anything that sees a great deal of use, swimming pool interiors wear out over time.
The good news is that your pool resurfacing options are much better than they were when your pool was originally built. Today’s pool and spa owners have many reliable and beautiful swimming pool resurfacing options available.
There are so many beautiful swimming pool finishes to choose from. From the elegant simplicity of standard white plaster finishes to the rainbow of multicolored glass finishes and a spectrum of options between, the choices are amazing.
Pool Surface Styles:
White Plaster
White plaster has been around since people first began building pools and remains a very popular choice. Quite simply it is white Portland cement, limestone sand, and water combined.
White Plaster is both economical and classic in nature and will give your pool’s water a sky blue tint. Once filled with water, white plaster will create a brilliant, clean appearance that is smooth to the touch.
Colored Plaster
With the addition of color pigments and dyes, you have the option of changing the pool water’s appearance, to reflect the colors of nature. Achieve a beautiful, consistent, and high-quality finish with colored plaster.
To further accentuate the beauty of your pool consider pronouncing the mottling effect. This option is also an economical choice for today’s swimming pools!
Quartz
Quartz is combined with natural, pure, non-fading quartz aggregates that are further enhanced with Portland cement. This leaves pool owners with an extremely durable and attractive pool finish.
Quartz aggregate is smaller than pebble and is readily available in a variety of colors. Finishing your pool with quartz will ensure that your pool’s plaster stands up to even the harshest of pool chemicals. With a colorful and long lasting appearance quartz is also comfortable and slip resistant!
Pebble
Choose from 24 attractive colors. Pebble is a colorful mosaic of tiny pebbles, which are tightly fused with white Portland cement, and lightly buffed to create a rich pool surface. Finishing your pool with pebble may be more expensive, but offers a more durable, stain-resistant, natural-looking surface than white plaster. As the sunlight plays off the water Pebble will create a spectrum of colors.
Plastering with Pebble offers:
Stain-resistance
Non-slip surfacing
24 distinct color options
Natural elegance
Tile
Pool tiling is extremely durable, smooth, colorfast and less chemically reactive relative to the other alternatives. There are many options that will create a unique look to your pool surface.
Pool Surface Considerations:
Water Color
Pool Owners often want to match the water color they have seen in pictures or experienced on a vacation. Replicating water color from a picture, taken in a different pool setting, is difficult as there are many factors that contribute to water color, such as pool surface hue, pool depth and water chemistry.
Classic Pool Plastering is experienced in both the “art” and the “science” of water color and can help you select the materials to get your desired look for your pool.
Please click below for more information regarding the factors that influence pool water color.
Durability
White plaster tends to have the shortest lifespan due to the softer marble component in the mixture. White plaster can last on average 5-15 years and in many instances can go longer if water chemistry is properly maintained.
White quartz averages more years since a harder quartz aggregate is used in combination with the marble and cement. Once again, quartz can last longer than the average if water chemistry is properly maintained.
Pebble finishes, combined with modified cement, last 15+ years. This is the most durable cement based pool finish.
Polished marble finishes are an upgrade to standard marble finishes since the reactive cream layer is polished off the pool finish. You can plan on getting 10+ years from this ultra-smooth pool finish.
Texture
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Water Temperature
Much like a black car sitting in the sun on a hot day, a dark-bottomed pool finish absorbs heat from the sun. We have seen dark quartz and pebble pools pick up as much as 8-10 degrees of water temperature on a hot day. A shallow pool or spa will heat up quicker than a deep pool.
Material Selection Guidance
Classic Pool Plastering uses only the best available plaster, tile and cement-based pool surface materials. We will work with you to identify available options to best achieve your desired “look & feel” and budget for your pool surface project.