Pool Prep
Below are a few photos of the typical work to pump out, clean, patch, and paint the pool each year.
See Paul's personal Album of pool pictures showing annual cleaning, repairs, and improvements.
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Our season begins in early April by pumping out the old water and stuff that's gotten into the pool over the winter.
Once the old water is mostly gone, we pressure-wash off remaining junk from every square inch. (4/10/2021)
This year the many layers of paint have scaled worse than ever, and much of the old bottom paint needs to be chipped off using a masonry hammer. (5/3/2021)
Every square inch of the walls and the bottom must be pressure washed (half done here, takes about 8 hours). The washing always knocks off some layers of old paint.
Sometimes it feels like there's no end to chipping. (2020)
Spots that have broken through too many layers need to be primed. (2020)
But in 2021 the whole bottom will require a couple of coats instead of just one, and we're experimenting with a slightly different type of paint.
The white requires about 10 gallons of DriLok paint. The blue requires about 6 gallons of premium rubberized pool paint (at $50/gal). Both must be applied in the evening (out of direct sun), and the blue can only go on after a couple of perfectly dry days. Painting takes two people three evenings to complete. (2020)
After the paint has dried for a couple of days the pool takes exactly seven days to fill. Water started on 5/17/2020. After day one the deep end is not yet full.
By day two the water covers the blue and touches the shallow end steps (not shown). This is day three.
Our pavilion got a new metal roof in 2021 thanks to Daniel Browder, Josh Cox, Brent Lambert, Josh Ray, & Dwight Sell.
In 2022 the Pump House got a metal roof and facelift also!
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