Commercial and Residential Pool Replastering in Copperas Cove, Texas
Killeen Pool Resurfacing handles pool replastering in Copperas Cove, Texas, for apartment, HOA and other commercial pools as well as backyard ones, in the city at U.S. Highway 190 and Farm Road 116 in southern Coryell County. Standard white plaster, in the National Plasterers Council's description, is the most affordable finish: white cement, white marble aggregate and water, reading a brilliant, clean light blue under water.
The Census Bureau estimates Copperas Cove at 40,118 people on July 1, 2025, with 39,035 counted in Coryell County and 1,083 in Lampasas County. From City Park on West Avenue B to South Park on Dennis Street, the free estimate covers white or colored plaster, the City's pool rules and the refill, and calls and estimate requests are answered day and night, every day.
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Replastering Copperas Cove's older pools
A 1989 median year built
Copperas Cove had 36,670 residents in the 2020 Census, in 14,985 housing units. In the Census Bureau's 2020–2024 American Community Survey its median year of housing construction is 1989, the median home value $180,500 and the median household income $71,225; 59.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied, and 9.1% of homes are in structures of five or more units. The National Plasterers Council rates traditional white plaster as a 5 to 8 year surface. Materials, bond coats and the start-up are covered on our pool replastering page.
White or colored plaster
Colored plaster brings choices and caveats. The Council says sun and UV aren't the main cause of faded pool color; it puts color loss down to three things, the finish materials, how they were applied and the water chemistry, with most cases traced to start-up or ongoing chemistry that wasn't done properly. Organic pigments have much smaller particles than inorganic ones, it adds, so they're lost more easily as the cement surface grows porous from chemical wear. The Council-endorsed disclosure for pool owners says a finish isn't guaranteed for evenness of color, that pigmented surfaces vary and fade over time, and that crazing, which can be pronounced in colored finishes, is normal and not a defect.
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The City's commercial pool requirements
Copperas Cove's Building Department publishes separate commercial and residential swimming pool requirements. Its fee schedule charges commercial work, including "public occupancy swimming pools," from the total project value, and no single commercial permit fee may exceed 50% of the project's value.
Apartment and HOA pools
Under the Texas Department of State Health Services rules, HOA and apartment pools are public pools: Class C pools, limited to occupants or members and their guests. For commercial pools and spas, DSHS works from the 2021 edition of the International Swimming Pool and Spa Code, which it applies to their construction and alteration as well as to renovation, enlargement and repair. While a public pool is closed, including during a renovation, users have to be kept out of the pool yard, with a "closed" sign on the entry gates. For the finish itself, the 2024 edition of the code requires public pool floors and walls to be white or light-colored, at least 8.0 on the Munsell gray scale, where the 2021 edition set the limit at 6.5 on the Munsell color value scale; residential pools are exempt from that section. Apartment, HOA and hotel pools are covered in more depth under commercial pool resurfacing.
Sales tax and commercial costs
Texas treats HOA- and apartment-owned pools as residential property for sales tax, so labor to repair, remodel or restore them is not taxable, while the total charge for work on nonresidential property, a hotel pool among them, is taxable; the combined rate in Copperas Cove is 8.25%. For a large commercial pool, typical Texas commercial pricing in 2026 is $15,000 and up for resurfacing, and national 2026 figures give commercial replastering at $6.50 to $8.00 per square foot of interior surface, or $24,000 to $36,000 for a 3,000-square-foot pool. They are other companies' figures, not our prices; Killeen Pool Resurfacing gives free estimates for commercial pools.
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The City's residential pool requirements call for a barrier at least 48 inches high on the side facing away from the pool, with self-closing and self-latching gates at every entrance, fully enclosing the pool or the yard. Pool lighting must be shielded so it doesn't shine on neighboring homes, and no loudspeaker system may be used to advertise the pool. Under the 2024 International Swimming Pool and Spa Code as the City applies it, door alarms on doors or windows that open to the pool area must be listed and labeled as water hazard entrance alarms under UL 2017. Pool steel and bonding are inspected before concrete is placed, and every pool needs an approved final inspection before use.
All pool wiring must meet the City's current adopted code. Outlets for cord-attached equipment must be GFCI-protected, and all equipment, fences and metal within 10 feet of the pool must be grounded. Overhead and underground electric clearances follow Oncor Electric Delivery's standards, such as 27 feet from an overhead neutral or guy wire to the water's edge.
Draining and refilling under the City's water rules
Where the old water goes
Copperas Cove's stormwater ordinance lists "dechlorinated swimming pool discharges" among the non-stormwater discharges allowed into the City's storm sewer, unless the City decides case by case that a particular discharge is a significant pollutant. Its sewer ordinance says pool water "shall not be discharged into sanitary sewers if a closed storm sewer is available." Where none is, pool water may go into the sanitary sewer by indirect connection at no more than 5 gallons per minute, within the article's other limits, such as a pH between 5.5 and 10.0.
Drought stages and the August 2026 notices
The City's drought plan counts filling or adding to any indoor or outdoor pool as non-essential use. Stage 2 limits pool filling to the customer's designated watering day, set by the last digit of the street address, and to the hours from midnight to 10 a.m. and from 8 p.m. to midnight; Stage 4 bans filling or refilling a pool outright. On August 19, 2026 the City moved to Stage 1 after the distribution system recovered from a water-main break, with the Boil Water Notice of August 17 still in effect at that time. Check the current stage before a pool is drained.
The water a new finish cures in
Copperas Cove's treated water is bought wholesale from Bell County WCID No. 1; the City's Water Distribution Department maintains about 242 miles of lines, 17 storage and pump facilities and about 15,562 meter connections. The City's 2025 water quality report lists chloramine averaging 2.04 ppm (range 0.52 to 3.33 ppm), haloacetic acids averaging 22 µg/L and total trihalomethanes 37 µg/L, and prints no hardness figure. That water matters from the first hour: the Council says plaster cures under water, so the pool is filled as soon as possible after final set, and this "ponding" lets hydration continue without fast moisture loss and greatly reduces shrinkage cracking.
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How the town got its name
The town was first spelled Coperas Cove, a name inspired by the mineral taste of the water in a nearby spring, and its post office opened in March 1879 with Marsden Ogletree as postmaster. When the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway crossed southern Coryell County in 1882, residents moved the townsite two miles northeast to the line. The spelling officially became Copperas Cove in 1901, and the first mayor was elected in 1913, when 600 people lived there. The First Baptist Church, organized in 1885 by Rev. J. F. Baker and thirteen charter members, still has its 1908 sanctuary at 300 W. Avenue B.
After falling to 356 residents by the 1940s, the town grew fast once the federal government chose southeastern Coryell and northwestern Bell counties for Camp Hood. It had 1,052 residents by 1950, and after Fort Hood became a permanent base that year the city limits eventually extended southwest into Lampasas County. The population was estimated at 10,818 in 1970, and it stood at 24,079 in 1990 and 29,592 in 2000.
City Park Pool, South Park Pool and Ogletree Gap
The Parks and Recreation Department, at 1206 W Avenue B, runs two public pools. City Park Pool starts at zero depth with a shallow-water mushroom for small children and deepens to a slide into 5 feet of water and a jump area at 10 feet. South Park Pool, at 2602 Dennis Street, holds 150,000 gallons at 3 to 5 feet deep, with an enclosed slide and a splash pad. The department also runs the Ogletree Gap Trail and the Hills of Cove Golf Course.
Other pool work around Copperas Cove
Replastering is one job among several: quartz, pebble and glass bead finishes, fiberglass resurfacing and repairs, pool paint, vinyl liners, tile, coping and deck resurfacing are on the list too, along with crack, skimmer and leak repairs.
Kempner, also on U.S. Highway 190, has a page on fiberglass pool repair in Kempner, and pool replastering in Lampasas has its own page.
How a replastering job runs
Look at the plaster
We'll check the plaster, the tile line and the fittings during a free estimate, and talk through white or colored plaster for a home pool or the light-finish rule for a commercial one.
Check which City guide applies
The Building Department's commercial and residential pool requirements are separate; ask which one applies and whether the job needs a permit.
Drain by an allowed route
Dechlorinated water may go to the storm sewer; the sanitary sewer is only for places without a closed storm sewer, at 5 gallons a minute or less.
Plug the dig-outs
The National Plasterers Council recommends plugging the dig-outs around pipes and fittings flush with the shell, using non-shrinking or low-shrinkage cementitious material, and letting it cure first, because a thicker finish at dig-outs can cause discoloration.
Plaster by hand
The Council notes that pool finishes are hand-crafted and troweled free hand, so minor variation in thickness, levelness, texture and color is unavoidable, and no national standard yet sets acceptable tolerances.
Barrier up, then fill
The City's residential requirements say the pool must not be filled until the barrier is installed. Once it is, the fill starts as soon as possible after the plaster's final set, so the new finish cures under water.
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What does pool replastering cost near Copperas Cove?
A Killeen-area pool builder puts replastering at $5,000 to $10,000, depending on the size, shape and condition of the pool, without giving a year. National figures for 2026 put the average replaster at $2,300 to $5,600 including materials and labor, or about $4 to $8 per square foot, depending largely on the pool's size and where you live. Neither is our price; Killeen Pool Resurfacing gives a free estimate once the pool has been seen.
Does Copperas Cove adjust the sewer bill when a pool is filled?
It can. A residential customer filling a swimming pool may ask for an adjustment of the sewer-related charges that would otherwise rise above the account's base-months average, and the city manager or a designee may grant it. The adjustment covers the sewer charge, not the water charge, and only one application per account is allowed in any rolling six-month period.
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Killeen Pool Resurfacing handles estimate requests for home, apartment and HOA pools across Copperas Cove, and calls are answered 24/7.