Straight answers on resurfacing, coping and tile, structural repair, and new gunite builds, from a crew working in pools since 1985.
There is a season in Connecticut when the pool is empty anyway, the crews have room, the problems are freshly visible, and nothing you do costs you a swim day. It is right now, and almost nobody uses it.
Refinishing, resurfacing, replastering: in Connecticut pool work these three words describe the same family of job, renewing the surface you swim against.
Closing a gunite pool is eight steps, and only three of them are about water chemistry. The rest are about one idea: get water out of everything that can freeze, and keep water away from everything the freeze…
The right time to close a Connecticut pool is not a date, it is a temperature: once the water holds consistently below about 60 degrees, biology slows down and closing chemistry actually holds until spring.
Ask what a gunite pool costs and you will get a range wide enough to park a truck in, because the honest answer is a stack of line items, half of which belong to your yard rather than your pool.
Pool remodel budgets do not fail at the total; they fail at the scope line, where refresh, renovation, and transformation get quoted as if they were the same project.
Two identical-looking pools can get resurfacing quotes thousands of dollars apart, and both quotes can be honest.
Renovation idea lists usually read like a resort brochure. This one reads like our order book.
Two parts of your pool do jobs almost nobody can point to: the expansion joint, a humble line of flexible caulk between deck and coping, and the bond beam, the reinforced concrete ring hiding under the coping.
Every pool comparison chart shows the same three columns and the same polite tie. Here is the version with an opinion: the three pool types are not three grades of the same thing, they are three different bets…
One loose pool tile is rarely one loose pool tile. It is the first visible vote in an election happening behind the tile line, where water, freeze-thaw, and the bond that holds tile to concrete are deciding…
Coping is the border your hand grabs, your towel lies on, and your eye reads from across the yard. It is also the cap that protects the top of your pool structure.
Shotcrete and gunite are the same idea: concrete sprayed at high velocity over a cage of steel to build a pool shell in place. The difference is when the water joins the party.
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