Quartz Pool Resurfacing in Briggs, Texas
Killeen Pool Resurfacing offers quartz pool resurfacing in Briggs, Texas, the Burnet County community at U.S. Highway 183 and Farm Road 2657. CL Industries calls quartz a beautiful alternative to marcite, traditional white plaster, and says it gives a pool a strong, nonporous, stain-resistant finish that resists erosion from chemical imbalances in the water.
Briggs had 101 residents in the 2020 Census, in 53 housing units. Whether your pool is near the old Briggs State Bank building or out along Farm Road 2657, a free estimate is where the quartz color, the batches and the start-up get worked out.
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Quartz resurfacing in a small Burnet County community
What the Census Bureau counts in Briggs
Of the 53 housing units the 2020 Census found in Briggs, 44 were occupied and 9 vacant. Briggs is a census-designated place: the Census Bureau files it as class 57 with functional status S, a statistical area with no government of its own, and publishes no yearly population estimate for it. Its 2020–2024 American Community Survey figures rest on a very small sample, but they put the median year of housing construction at 2021, count 14 of 32 occupied homes as owner-occupied (43.8%), report no median home value, and record no homes in buildings of five or more units.
What to expect from a quartz surface
SGM says every pool plaster is subject to shade variation, mottling, scale and efflorescence, that colored plasters are especially prone to them, and that its own Diamond Brite quartz finish is no exception. Mottling that shows up lightly while the finish cures tends to even out over its first six months, in SGM's experience; streaks, dark blotches or a chalky film that persist are the ones it blames on start-up chemistry. Makers sell quartz at several levels. Luna Quartz, Wet Edge Technologies' entry-level line, shares the admixtures of the company's other finishes, though Wet Edge cautions that it may show trowel marks and color shading, and NPT offers ColorScapes, a mix of colored quartz, white marble, white cement and its Lobo modifier, as a more affordable choice than its QuartzScapes. Brands and colors are compared on our quartz pool finishes page.
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No city government, a county office
With no city government, Briggs has no city permit office or city pool ordinance; the county is the local authority. Burnet County's Development Services office lists its jobs as 911 addressing, on-site sewage facility (septic) permits, subdivision development, floodplain development and outdoor burning, and names no building code, zoning or swimming pool function among them. The County does publish a Building Permit Application Form, which asks for the subdivision, lot and block, the construction type (residential, manufactured home or nonresidential), the estimated cost and square footage, the sewage treatment (an existing septic system, a new one, a public system or a water district) and the water system, with a well as the option listed. The form names no building code edition and doesn't mention swimming pools.
For septic systems, the County charges $250 for most on-site sewage permits and $400 for an aerobic system, a Licensed Site Evaluator's site evaluation decides what type of system a property can use, and the Building Application and the septic application may be sent together. Ask Burnet County Development Services whether anything applies to a resurfacing job before work starts; Killeen Pool Resurfacing can talk the question through at the free estimate.
Drain water near a septic system
Texas's environmental agency, TCEQ, lets pool backwash and drain water be reused on the property under rules of its own: a five-day wait after any shock or acid treatment, never at a rate that ponds or runs off across property lines or onto paved surfaces, and never through a reuse system physically connected to a sewer or an on-site sewage facility.
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Get free estimatesTaylor's Gin, Mrs. Briggs and the Briggs State Bank
Springs, Gum Springs and Taylor's Gin
Briggs sits in northeastern Burnet County on the headwaters of Berry Creek, where permanent springs gave the area its first names, Springs and then Gum Springs. Stephen Taylor later bought the land and built a cotton gin and store known as Taylor's Gin, and after residents petitioned Washington, a post office for Taylor's Gin was granted on March 27, 1888. Dr. William Hazelwood, a physician who practiced there, petitioned to rename the community for his mother-in-law, Mrs. Henry D. Briggs, and it became Briggs on June 21, 1898. By 1900 a site had been platted into lots and blocks, land had been donated for a new school, and 100 people lived there, with two cotton gins, doctors, a drugstore and two general stores.
A bank, a tornado and the school
A tornado demolished the Briggs school on April 12, 1906. The Briggs State Bank was chartered on May 27, 1909, and its limestone and brick building, with a three-bay front and decorative brickwork, went up that spring; bank and town flourished for fifteen more years on cotton and wool, until changing farm practices and a major fire weakened the local economy in the mid-to-late 1920s. The population peaked at 520, served by twenty businesses, in 1936, held between 250 and 300 until the late 1960s, then fell to 96. The Briggs school was consolidated with the Burnet district in 1969, and Burnet Consolidated ISD serves the area today; the population stood at 92 in both 1990 and 2000. The Texas Historical Commission records two burial grounds near Briggs, the Mt. Moriah Cemetery and the Prairie View Cemetery.
Other pool work for Briggs
Quartz is one of the finishes we install. The rest of the list takes in plaster in white or colors, pebble and glass bead surfaces, fiberglass resurfacing and repair, painted finishes, vinyl liners, tile, coping and decks, plus fixes for cracks, skimmers and leaks, at backyard and commercial pools alike.
Florence, in Williamson County, has a page on fiberglass pool refinishing in Florence, and Kempner's page covers fiberglass pool repair and resurfacing in Kempner.
Steps in a quartz resurfacing job
Look at the finish
At a free estimate we'll look at the surface, the tile line and the fittings, and talk through quartz colors and how much shade variation to expect.
Ask Burnet County
Take the job to Burnet County Development Services before it is booked, and mention whether the property is on a septic system, since the County handles on-site sewage permits.
Order enough from one delivery
SGM has installers order an extra 5% to 10% of bags, because areas plastered later cannot be matched, and to blend batches by the ratio on site in every mix; it voids warranties sent in without valid batch numbers.
Mix and trowel
SGM mixes Diamond Brite for at least 5 and no more than 10 minutes, since too short a mix sets unevenly and too long a mix weakens the plaster, and it fills the finishers' spike holes with aggregate rather than troweled paste.
Expose within the window
SGM puts one worker on every 300 square feet and gives roughly an hour to expose the quartz; starting too early or too late leaves it uneven, and a hose or bucket left on the fresh surface can leave a shadow.
Fill it and keep it full
A Diamond Brite finish has to stay underwater to stay hydrated, SGM explains, so the pool stays full through its first year, comes down later only if there is no other way, and is refilled within 24 hours when it must.
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Get free estimatesBriggs quartz resurfacing questions
Can a quartz pool in Briggs be filled from a well?
Burnet County's building permit form lists a well as the water-system option, so it's worth knowing where your fill water comes from. The makers are wary of metals: SGM says well water, or any water high in metal and mineral content, will discolor finished Diamond Brite, especially its colored versions, Midnight Blue, Onyx, Tahoe Blue and French Gray among them. On whether to dose against metals, the guidance splits: the National Plasterers Council's start-up card calls a sequestering agent optional, though many recommend adding one at the first fill and keeping up a maintenance dose, while SGM's online care guide says to add none unless the installer directs it. Killeen Pool Resurfacing will talk through the fill water at the free estimate.
What does quartz pool resurfacing cost?
One national cost report, with no data year stated, prices a pebble or quartz aggregate resurface, in finishes like PebbleTec or Diamond Brite, at $3,500 to $8,500 for a rough finish or about $5,000 to $10,000 for a polished one, depending on the style and color. Those are published averages rather than our prices; a real figure for a Briggs pool needs a look at it first.
Request a free quartz resurfacing estimate in Briggs
Killeen Pool Resurfacing takes estimate requests from Briggs around the clock, from U.S. Highway 183 to the Berry Creek headwaters.