Commercial and Residential Pool Remodeling in Gatesville, Texas

Remodeling Gatesville's backyard pools

Homes and their median age

The 2020 Census counted 16,135 people in Gatesville and 3,783 housing units, of which 3,330 were occupied and 453 vacant. In the Census Bureau's American Community Survey for 2020 to 2024, the median year of construction is 1979, the median home value $207,300 and the median household income $57,217. Owners live in 1,969 of 3,082 occupied homes, or 63.9%, and 9.0% of the city's homes are in buildings with five or more units. Tanning ledges, steps, diving conversions and raised walls are covered on our pool remodeling page; one surface it doesn't cover follows.

A glass tile interior as the new surface

Some remodels tile the whole interior rather than plastering it. Glass tile made for submerged use is attractive, says LATICRETE, a maker of tile setting materials, but it usually carries a higher price and calls for more installation experience and expertise. Lightstreams, a glass tile maker, says any partly or fully submerged tile needs a waterproof membrane system, since thin-set mortar and grout are not waterproof, and that glass tile also needs a movement joint and tile-fracture system. LATICRETE wants that membrane to form one continuous waterproof pan, and doesn't recommend waterproofing only part of the pool, such as the waterline.

Lightstreams also lists industry minimum cure times of 28 days for shotcrete or gunite, 1 to 7 days for the primary waterproofing depending on the product, 7 days for a mortar bed, 1 day for the secondary waterproofing that glass tile requires, and 21 days after grouting before the pool is filled. Killeen Pool Resurfacing will lay out which surfaces suit a particular pool at the free estimate.

Commercial pool remodeling under Texas rules

Which rules a public pool follows

Apartment and HOA pools count as public pools under the State's rules, along with pools open to the general public. For their construction, alteration, renovation and repair, the 2021 International Swimming Pool and Spa Code is the edition the Texas Department of State Health Services adopts. State law requires those rules to allow a minor addition, alteration, renovation or repair to an existing public pool and its mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems in the same manner and arrangement as before, and a pool that complied with Texas law on August 31, 2021 may go on being used, maintained and repaired under the law of that date. For the state rules, a pool's date of construction is the day its building permit was issued, or, where no permit was needed, the day excavation or electrical service began, whichever came first. Finishes, closures and water for shared pools are covered on our commercial pool resurfacing page.

Decks, depth markers and finish colors

The CDC's Model Aquatic Health Code, a national model rather than Texas law, calls for slip-resistant, textured deck finishes that aren't slippery under bare feet wet or dry, and rules out carpet, artificial turf and wood as perimeter decking. Its minimum deck slopes, away from the water, are 1/8 inch per foot for smooth finishes such as tile or hand-finished concrete, 1/4 inch per foot for exposed aggregate or medium-broomed concrete, and 3/8 inch per foot for heavily textured finishes such as brick; it also wants joints that limit cracking, beveled or rounded deck edges, and concrete decks built to current American Concrete Institute standards.

Texas rules require deck depth markers at public pools to be slip resistant and readable from the deck. The model code places markers at the minimum and maximum depths, on both sides and at each end, on the wall and on the coping or deck within 18 inches of it, no more than 25 feet apart, at 1-foot depth intervals where the water is under 5 feet, with letters and numbers at least 4 inches tall in a contrasting color. Under the 2021 code, the colors, patterns and finishes inside a non-residential pool must not hide objects or surfaces in the water. Killeen Pool Resurfacing will go through them for a shared pool at the free estimate.

Other pool work around Gatesville

A remodel isn't the only job we take on in Gatesville. Owners also call about replastering, quartz, pebble or glass bead finishes, refinishing or painting a pool, a new vinyl liner, waterline tile, coping, the deck, and repairs for cracks, skimmers and leaks, for households as well as apartment, HOA and other commercial pools.

For South Mountain, a small incorporated town off U.S. Highway 84 three miles east of the city, see residential pool resurfacing in South Mountain. Mound, on Farm Road 1829 eight miles to the southeast and named for the White Mound School, has one on pool replastering and plaster repair in Mound.

Remodel questions: drought water and fences