{"id":2991,"date":"2023-06-29T15:20:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T22:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/?p=2991"},"modified":"2023-06-29T15:57:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T22:57:51","slug":"pool-prepped-and-painted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/2023\/06\/pool-prepped-and-painted\/","title":{"rendered":"Rental Pool Prepped and Painted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Finally finished painting the pool after lots of prep work after years of neglect in my rental. With Covid restrictions gone, I was finally able to move forward clear debris, prep surface (lots of hours) and paint. I used Dura Seal epoxy with an 8-year life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had debris and sludge built up from the tenants and some campers who trespassed and dumped in the pool, very nasty.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After cleaning the sludge, I had to pump the water out several times with my trash pump after the atmospheric rains this season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I then washed the entire pool down with muriatic acid. After finding different waste hazard places to dump the acid. I washed the pool with TSP. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to the years of tenant abuse, there was still scaling. I tried sanding with an orbital sander and that barely \u201cscratched the surface \u201c. \ud83d\ude09 Then tried sandblasting and that was going to take way too much material and cost. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I finally found a BAUER 9 Amp Surface Conditioning Tool surface preparation tool from Bauer and sanded the entire pool removing that hard white scale!  I took several hours through a couple of weeks after work and weekends to complete this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I then wanted to etch with something other than acid again prior to painting and tried several chemicals like CitrisStrip but that left a residue I had to clean up with acetone and the surface prep sander again. I finally acetone etched the whole pool and did another round of sanding with the surface prep tool.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had to wait a while after taping the pool off for painting. I did light washing with the hose pipe and not pressure wash to get surface dirt after doing some patching of cracks and areas when someone dropped a heavy object in the empty pool. I then waited an extra day and painted!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, I will get a chance to get water in the pool and test out the pump. I hope they did not damage the pump or that equipment! It was working fine when they moved in! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No more amateur time, the pool will have a professional pool service maintain it and that will be written in the lease!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pictures from start to finish as of today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After cleaning debris after campers dumped trash and I started pumping the pool.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pumping out water process. That leaves debris to be scooped up. Some of this is what some campers from the neighborhood left.<\/p>\n\n\n

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