Review on 🏊 INSL-X Waterborne Semi-Gloss Royal Blue Pool Paint - 1 Gallon: Top-quality Acrylic Formula for Long-lasting Pool Surfaces by Nick Gathings

I was renovating our 30 year old concrete pool. As you can see from the photos it was in pretty rough condition! I was offered $12-15k for new plaster which is not in our budget! So I decided to paint it. It was my first time painting a pool and this is my story. We live on the Georgia coast, right at sea level, so before we completely drained our pool, our first step was to find a well. If you live in an area with high water tables, contact the company that installed your in-ground pool and find out if they installed a fountain in your pool and if so, where it is located. Any reputable pool company will pre-install this fountain for your pool if they build the pool themselves. I hooked up our old pool pump/service pump to the fountain and let it run 24/7 while the pool was empty. It was a constant trickle, accompanied by strong groundwater gusts every 90 seconds. If you don't, you risk your pool floating like a ship! After the pool was drained and thoroughly pressure flushed, I flushed it with muriatic acid, then TSP, and lots of water. I found a few flaking spots in the plaster where it was simply crumbling or blistering and coming off in sheets; All of that plaster had to be chipped and removed to make the finish durable. We removed a lot of the plaster on the underside and touched it up with a thin layer of polymer-modified fine stoneware where the exposed concrete was visible. We just left the rest alone. After all the holes are patched, we sweep the pool and prepare it for painting. The paint instructions say to paint on a dry surface, so just before painting we let our pool dry in the Georgia sun for 2 days. We checked the weather forecast to make sure we had at least 3-7 days without rain. I found the instructions to be correct in this regard; Every day our color got better and better. We applied the first layer and let it dry for 4 hours. And despite the instruction NOT to apply the paint in direct sunlight, we did it anyway. It was very hot in the Georgia sun, but the paint still applied and dried well. We applied a second coat, which incidentally lays down more easily than the first, and then cleaned and closed the case. Then I carefully removed the frog tape from the tile line. I noticed that at this point the paint behaved like it would peel off the pool surface easily - like cheap latex paint - but I convinced myself that it just needed a lot of "curing time" to set properly on the concrete be liable. And it was right! After 7 days of curing in the sun the places I thought it would peel off now sticks like glue and won't go anywhere! It also took into account drops of paint dripping from the rollers for 7 days, which I never noticed and didn't clean up! In short, this paint is excellent and I would definitely recommend and buy it again. Just make sure you do your prep work and keep a close eye on it and it will look great. For our 18 x 36 foot (approx. 25,000 gallon) pool we used 8.5 gallons of Ocean Blue water based paint to apply two coats. . With all the supplies included (pool paint, tile, grout, grout, etc.) we probably spent a total of $2,000.