Pool Remodeling and Resurfacing in Moody, Texas

Pool remodeling and resurfacing for Moody homes

Housing with a 1973 median

The 2020 Census recorded 575 housing units in Moody: 502 occupied, 73 vacant. Across the 2020–2024 American Community Survey, the median Moody home was built in 1973, and owners occupy 392 of 511 occupied homes, or 76.7%. The survey sets the median home value at $168,800 and median household income at $69,750, with just 0.5% of homes in buildings of five or more units.

Waterline tile and coping

Pool tile, by LATICRETE's guide, should be impervious (absorbing under 0.5% of water) or vitreous (under 3.0%); anything absorbing more than 3% may expand permanently from moisture. It asks for mortars suitable for continuous water submersion, notes that latex mortars improve adhesion, reduce chemical attack and add flexibility, and recommends epoxy adhesives to eliminate deterioration from chemical attack. On top of any joints carried up from the shell, it adds movement joints every 8 to 12 feet in each direction, for long-term moisture expansion and for shrinkage as the pool is emptied.

At the edge, Unilock's guide says coping a concrete pool is the simplest case, since the wall itself supports the coping units, and its first step is scarifying the wall's top for a good mortar bond. The 2021 International Swimming Pool and Spa Code wants coping, like decks and ramps, to be cleanable and slip resistant. Our pool remodeling page goes further, into tanning ledges, diving pool conversions and new shotcrete.

What remodels and resurfacing cost in Texas

Typical Texas pricing reported in 2025 puts a basic cosmetic pool update at $15,000 to $25,000, a significant renovation at $30,000 to $50,000 and a complete transformation at $50,000 or more. Inside a remodel, the same source prices deck work at $8,000 to $25,000, tile with coping at $5,000 to $15,000, and resurfacing on its own at $5,000 to $15,000. Typical Waco-area pricing reported in 2021 gave white-plaster resurfacing as $4.80 to $6.20 per square foot, $5.50 on average, with draining, sandblasting and preparing the surface, the plaster, smoothing and acid-washing, and the refill included, and tile, deck refinishing and other repairs left out. None of those is our price; Killeen Pool Resurfacing quotes a Moody pool after seeing it.

Texas rules that reach a Moody remodel

State law sets a baseline for pool work in Texas cities. It makes the International Swimming Pool and Spa Code, in its May 1, 2019 form, the municipal pool and spa code across the state, and allows a city to adopt a newer edition. In a city that elects to regulate pools or spas, that code applies to all construction, alteration, remodeling, enlargement and repair of them. Whether Moody regulates pools couldn't be confirmed from the City's own pages, so ask the City of Moody before work is booked.

A remodel that reaches the wiring or the plumbing also brings in state licensing. Electrical work needs a state license from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation: anyone doing non-exempt electrical work must hold one and work through a licensed electrical contractor. Plumbing falls under the Plumbing License Law, administered by the Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners: anyone other than a responsible master plumber needs the proper license, registration or endorsement, and a licensed person supervising the work.