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Pools, Patios and the Surfaces Around Them

Pretorius Park is family housing from the 1980s and 1990s on generous stands, and the great majority of these properties have a pool. Once a pool reaches twenty or thirty years old, its finish becomes a recurring maintenance item, and pool coating is one of the few painting jobs where choosing the wrong product does not just perform badly — it can cost you the entire existing finish.

The area around the pool matters too, and it is routinely left out of quotes. Pool surrounds, patio walls, the pump house, boundary walls facing the pool area, and any timber decking all sit in a wetter, more chemically aggressive microclimate than the rest of the property. Chlorinated splash-out, constant wetting and drying, and reflected sun off the water all shorten the life of an ordinary coating.

If you are painting the house anyway, the pool area is the right time to look at properly, because the access and the mobilisation are already paid for.

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Pool Coatings: You Must Match What Is Already There

This is the point that saves people the most money and it is widely misunderstood. Pool coatings are not interchangeable, and applying the wrong type over an existing one usually causes the existing coating to lift, blister or dissolve — turning a straightforward recoat into a full strip-back.

Chlorinated rubber is what most older pools in this suburb are coated with. It recoats easily over itself, is inexpensive, and typically gives three to five years. It cannot be coated over epoxy, and epoxy cannot be applied over it without full removal.

Epoxy is harder wearing and gives roughly five to eight years, sometimes more. It requires a properly prepared, fully dry shell and it is far less tolerant of application error. It also costs considerably more. Once a pool is in epoxy, it stays in epoxy.

Marbelite or plaster is a cementitious finish rather than a paint. It is the longest-lasting option by a wide margin but it is a re-surfacing job, not a painting job, and it is priced accordingly.

Before anything is quoted, establish what is in your pool now. If you have records, use them. If you do not, a solvent test on a small patch in an inconspicuous area will identify it — chlorinated rubber softens and lifts with the appropriate solvent while epoxy does not. Any contractor who quotes a pool without establishing the existing system is guessing with your money.

Getting Pool and Patio Work Right

• The shell must be bone dry. This is the most common cause of pool coating failure. A drained pool needs days of drying, and the water table in the surrounding ground affects how long. Coating a shell that is still releasing moisture guarantees blistering
• Check for hydrostatic pressure. An empty pool in wet ground can float or crack. Pools have a hydrostatic relief valve for this reason. Draining in the dry season substantially reduces the risk
• Pool surrounds and coping: if being coated, use a floor-grade product with slip resistance. Wall paint on a wet trafficked surface around a pool is both short-lived and genuinely unsafe
• Patio and pool-area walls: these take splash-out and reflected UV, so specify the same standard you would use on a weather-exposed elevation rather than treating them as sheltered
• Timber decking and pergolas: a penetrating exterior sealer, and expect a shorter cycle here than elsewhere on the property because of constant wetting
• Pump house and equipment enclosures: small, cheap to include while a crew is on site, and almost always the worst-looking structure on the property because nobody ever gets to it

Do Pool Work in the Dry Season

Pool coating has the strictest weather requirement of any painting work covered on this site, and it points firmly at the dry months: roughly April through September, with the late-winter to early-spring stretch being ideal.

Three reasons. The shell has to dry out completely after draining, which needs consecutive dry days and takes longer than most people expect. The surrounding ground should be as dry as possible to reduce hydrostatic risk on an empty pool. And the coating itself needs a run of dry weather to cure before the pool is refilled.

Doing it in late winter or early spring also lines up with use. The pool is out of commission for the coating and cure period, and you want that to fall while nobody wants to swim, with the pool back in service before the season starts. Draining and coating a pool in December is both technically difficult and badly timed.

Allow more calendar time than the working days suggest. A pool recoat might be three or four days of actual work spread across a week and a half, because the drying and curing periods cannot be compressed.

Painting Services We Cover in Pretorius Park

• Swimming pool painting
• Exterior painting
• Wood staining & sealing
• Boundary wall painting
• Interior painting
• Waterproofing

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