Pool Resurfacing in Troy, Texas
Killeen Pool Resurfacing offers pool resurfacing in Troy, Texas, the Bell County town on Interstate 35 seven miles north of Temple, also called New Troy. The City's pool information sheet keeps pools at least 10 feet from buildings and from property lines, and requires every pool enclosure to be equipped with an alarm system.
Troy had 2,375 residents in the 2020 Census, and the Census Bureau's estimate for July 1, 2025 is 3,585. From the interstate out to Elm Creek, where Old Troy once stood, a free estimate covers the new surface, the main drain and the City's rules for the pool around it.
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Pool resurfacing in a growing Bell County town
Troy's housing in the Census figures
The 2020 Census found 914 housing units in Troy, 819 of them occupied and 95 vacant. For the 2020–2024 period, the American Community Survey gives Troy a median construction year of 2001. Owners occupy 636 of the 973 occupied homes it counts (65.4%), the median value is $201,500, median household income reaches $86,311, and 6.4% of homes are counted in structures of five or more units.
The drain, the cover and the relief valve
An emptied pool puts its main drain within reach. Pentair's main drain guide calls for regular inspection of drain covers, and for replacing any cover that is cracked or broken or has outlived the design lifetime its maker marked on it. Under the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act, the National Plasterers Council's glossary explains, any pool or spa drain cover that is made, distributed or sold in the United States has to comply with ASME/ANSI A112.19.8, the entrapment protection standard, or whichever standard succeeds it.
The 2021 International Swimming Pool and Spa Code asks for suction entrapment avoidance under ANSI/PHTA/ICC 7, with suction outlet fitting assemblies listed and labeled to APSP 16, and for pools to be kept clean, sanitary and in good repair. Some drain sumps also hold a hydrostatic relief valve; Hayward's model screws into the sump's 1½-inch or 2-inch pipe opening and has a slotted collector tube at its bottom. Plaster, quartz, pebble and glass bead surfaces for the shell itself are compared on the Killeen Pool Resurfacing homepage.
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Setbacks and an alarm on every enclosure
Under the City's Residential Swimming Pools sheet, a private pool serves only the people living in the one-family, two-family or multiple-family dwelling it belongs to, and must be "located and fenced in accordance with the regulations of the City of Troy." It may not be operated as a business or kept in a way that is "hazardous or obnoxious to adjacent property owners." A pool may sit no closer than 10 feet to buildings, especially the main residence, and no closer than 10 feet to the property lines, and no posts are allowed under overhead wiring. All pool enclosures must meet the barrier requirements of the International Residential Code, the International Property Maintenance Code and City ordinance, "and shall be equipped with an alarm system."
What the City's pool checklist asks
The sheet closes with "Pool Questions" that the City uses to review and approve an application for a new onground, storable, residential pool. It asks whether the enclosure is at least 48 inches high on the outside of the fence. Where the fence is under 54 inches tall, it asks whether the latch can only be worked from inside the gate, and whether the gate closes and latches itself when opened only six inches. It also asks where the pool drain is and whether it carries suction entrapment avoidance labeled with UL 1563 or CSA C22.2 No. 218.1. The sheet lists no fees, and the City's pages leave open whether a resurface of an existing pool needs a permit; the City of Troy can answer that before work is booked.
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Get free estimatesOld Troy, New Troy and the railroad
New Troy grew up around a station on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad after 1882 and took the place of an earlier community named Troy, two miles north on Elm Creek; some Old Troy residents refused to move, and for a time the two coexisted. By 1884 New Troy had 250 inhabitants, a post office, two churches, a gin and mill, three saloons, a hotel and a cooperative association. A cyclone destroyed a store in 1886, the weekly Troy Enterprise was in print by about 1892, and in 1903 the Troy school was the largest district school in the county, with 171 pupils and four teachers.
The town shrank to 219 residents in the 1930s and held there until the 1960s. Troy incorporated in 1960 with 275 residents and then grew quickly, to 450 in 1968, 704 in 1978 and 1,581 in 1988, before easing to 1,378 by 2000.
More pool work toward Temple
Troy owners can bring us more than a resurface: quartz, pebble or glass bead surfaces, a replaster, fiberglass refinishing, painting, vinyl liner changes, new waterline tile or coping, a resurfaced deck, and crack, skimmer and leak repairs, for houses as well as apartment complexes, HOAs and commercial properties.
Pendleton, on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and Farm Road 1237 six miles northwest of Temple, is covered by our page on white plaster pool replastering in Pendleton. Seven miles south on Interstate 35, Temple gets its own page on commercial and residential pool resurfacing in Temple.
Resurfacing a Troy pool, step by step
Look at the surface and the drain
At a free estimate we'll check the finish, the tile line and the main drain cover, and talk through which surface suits the pool.
Ask the City of Troy
Confirm with the City whether the job needs a permit, and check the pool against the 10-foot setbacks and the enclosure alarm the City's sheet calls for.
Drain to the sewer cleanout
The City's checklist asks whether pool water can go straight to a sewer cleanout on the same property when draining, without reaching the street, a ditch or the neighbors.
Replace a worn drain cover
With the water out, a cover that is cracked, broken or past the design lifetime marked on it is replaced, as Pentair's guide advises.
Mind the groundwater
River Pools warns that groundwater pushes up on a pool with too little water in it, enough to make the shell bulge, crack or even float, and says concrete pools are no exception.
Follow the start-up order
The National Plasterers Council's start-up card allows some steps to change for unusual fill water, and asks for each step to be finished in the recommended order before the next begins.
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Where can pool water go when a Troy pool is drained?
To a sewer cleanout on the same lot, by the City's checklist. One of its review questions reads: "Can pool water be discharged directly to a sewer cleanout on the same property when draining, without discharging water to the street, ditch or adjacent properties?" No separate ordinance text on draining was found, so ask the City of Troy how the question applies to your pool before it is emptied.
Where does Troy's tap water come from?
From two sources. The City's 2025 drinking water report says Troy buys treated surface water from the City of Temple, which draws on the Leon River, and also runs its own Tower St well in the Lower Trinity Aquifer in Bell County. The report names chloramine as the disinfectant, averaging 2.28 ppm within a range of 1.25 to 3.63 ppm against a maximum residual level of 4, and prints no hardness figure. Killeen Pool Resurfacing will go over the fill water and the start-up at the free estimate.
Request a free pool resurfacing estimate in Troy
Killeen Pool Resurfacing answers Troy calls and estimate forms seven days a week, nights included, from Interstate 35 out to Elm Creek.