Proper Pool Preparation for Hybrid Swimming Pools

Fiberglass walls and concrete bottom swimming pools

This is an excellent example of a properly prepared swimming pool that is now ready for the UGlassIt application to begin. In this instance, the entire pool was being converted to fiberglass.

The owner had a professional sand blasting contractor remove the old gel coat from the pool walls, and most of the many coats of paint from the bottom. We provided the information needed by the Contractor for removal of the gel coat from the fiberglass walls. Without this information, which is a "trade secret", this pool could easily have been seriously damaged.

Almost all Sand Blast Contractors are well experienced in removing paint and plaster from gunite and concrete pools, however because fiberglass gel coat can last up to thirty years, most Contractors have no experience in gel coat removal. Without our direction, attempts to remove the gel coat can have serious consequences.

Sometimes, the home owners decides to just refinish the fiberglass walls (the first 3' to 4' down from the top), and leave the bottom alone. If the pool has been recently painted, and is not leaking, this is an inexpensive way to bring back the pools original beauty. It will also assure another twenty to thirty years of service and beauty, with only one exception.

The only weakness in the original design is the joining of the fiberglass wall to the concrete bottom. When leaking does occur, it has always been, in our experience, at this joining. There has never been a reported leak between the panels at the vertical seams, only at the joining, or somewhere in the concrete bottom.

How to stop leaks and prevent leaking in the future

UGlassIt has designed a method to secure this joining and stop leaks plus prevent leaks from happening in the future. When you order our book, Pool Resurfacing Made Easy, be sure to request the supplement for hybrid pools.