Gelcoat Fiberglass Pool Resurfacing in McGregor, Texas

When McGregor's gelcoat needs attention

A median home from 1979

McGregor had 2,034 housing units at the 2020 Census, 1,873 occupied and 161 vacant. Its median home dates to 1979 in the 2020–2024 American Community Survey. Of 2,043 occupied homes, 1,401 are owner-occupied (68.6%); the median home value is $221,700, the median household income $72,750, and 7.7% of homes stand in buildings of five or more units.

What wears gelcoat down

In most cases, River Pools says, a fiberglass pool never has to be resurfaced; it is when the water chemistry is neglected or the surface goes uncleaned that the gelcoat wears down and eventually needs repair or replacement. Whether a whole pool can be given new gelcoat in the ground is disputed: River Pools says that isn't practical, while at least one gelcoat seller shows customers' pools resurfaced with its product. Coatings, epoxy paint and gelcoat repair for a worn shell are compared on our fiberglass pool resurfacing page.

What a maker's gelcoat warranty covers

Blistering is where makers' gelcoat warranties concentrate. Latham's covers osmotic blistering caused by defects in materials or workmanship for the whole time the original retail buyer keeps the pool. Glimmerglass sets ten years against osmotic blistering, and Barrier Reef warrants its finish coat or gelcoat against blistering for 15 years in total.

Ordinary wear tends to fall outside. Latham lists fading, staining, discoloration, and cracking down to hairline cracks among its exclusions, osmotic blisters apart. Rainforest Pools' gelcoat terms leave out discolorations, staining, fading, hairline cracks, blistering, surface yellowing, cobalting and roughness that come from water chemistry or the gel coat's own material characteristics. These are the makers' terms, not ours; the original maker's warranty is worth reading before any refinish.

McGregor Springs, the ordnance plant and the parks

Lots sold from a flatcar

McGregor was established in 1882 where the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe met the Texas and St. Louis railways, and was named for Dr. Gregor Carmichael McGregor, who gave the railroad its right-of-way across his land. On September 7, 1882, "a state land commissioner sold lots at auction from the back of a railroad flatcar." The town adopted a city charter in November 1886, counted 774 people in the 1890 census, and grew to 1,864 by 1910 and 2,081 by 1920 as "the commercial center and shipping point for much of western McLennan County."

The Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant

In 1942 the United States Army announced the Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant on 18,000 acres just southwest of town, and McGregor's population tripled in three months to more than 6,000. After World War II the plant turned to peacetime industries, and in the 1950s part of it was converted to manufacturing rocket engines, solid propellants and gas generators.

Five public parks

The City lists five public parks, Amsler, Legacy, Bewley, Kasting and Launch Pad, with walking trails, baseball fields, basketball, tennis and pickleball courts, playgrounds, a double 9 hole disc golf course, pavilions, soccer fields, fishing, a splash pad and a swimming pool. Launch Pad Park holds the McGregor Youth Baseball and Softball Association's three-field complex of Lechler, Ardell and Hackney Fields, and work on the Bewley Park tennis and pickleball courts was completed in February 2026.