Send a chip of the paint to a pool paint manufacturer if you re not sure what kind it is.
Can you paint a pool without draining it.
3 reasons not to drain a fiberglass pool.
You can only use epoxy pool paint over old epoxy paint and rubber pool paint over old rubber paint.
With this paint you can start painting as soon as the pool is empty prepped and clean.
To paint the pool you ll need to degrease the surface with tsp then acid etch the plaster followed by another washing and scrubbing with tsp.
Pour muriatic acid into a plastic pump sprayer.
With the hose turned on the pool begins to fill without stopping until the pool is full.
Drain the pool using your submersible pump first.
Both pool paint and pool plaster require that the pool be drained properly and prepared for the new surface.
Both pool paint and pool plaster require that the pool be drained properly and prepared for the new surface.
Spray the walls of the pool starting at the top of the deep end and working on one strip of the pool wall at a time.
No moisture control needed acrylic pool paint is water based and is applied to a damp pool shell so this completely eliminates the need to drain and dry out the shell for days or even weeks.
Staff answer you can use acrylic pool paint over any type of pool paint that isn t flaking off.
Make sure you have a plan in place.
Spray in long even strokes.