Why Painting Your Commercial Swimming Pool Should Be Left To Professional Contractors

With winter well underway, you may be eager to start painting your commercial swimming pool while it’s not being used. You may even be considering DIYing this painting job to cut costs. While the former is an excellent idea, the latter is not!

Painting your swimming pool should be pretty straightforward, right? Wrong. Surprisingly, it’s not as simple as buying paint and slapping it on. Commercial swimming pool painting jobs are quite complicated and best left to professional contractors for several reasons. Let’s dive in!

Prepping The Surface

Firstly, you need to be aware that, despite having been previously painted, the surface of your swimming pool must be prepped before painting. However, knowing this fact does not a successful job make – the real issue for DIY-ers is lacking the training and tools needed to adequately prep the surface for the paint to adhere and bond to. This means that your new paint job will not last, requiring a completely new paint job within a couple of months!

And an acid wash won’t do the trick either – the surface must be properly prepped to avoid costly repairs and refinishing. At Diotte Coating Services, for example, our contractors sandblast concrete pools to remove failing paint and provide a surface that ensures long-term adhesion. By properly preparing your surface, we can also identify and rectify any issues that need repairing – rather than painting over them and ruining the fresh coat!

Picking The Paint

Another DIY danger of swimming pool painting is picking the wrong paint. Any old paint won’t do. And, surprisingly, any old pool paint won’t do either! For commercial applications, you need the very best protective marine coatings to avoid paying for repairs and repainting when it peels off in the first month.

Professional coating contractors, on the other hand, can source the best possible paint for the specific needs of your pool. Our swimming pool painting contractors hand-pick immersion service high solids epoxy coatings to ensure a durable paint job that looks better for much longer.

Working With The Weather

Although winter is possibly the best time to paint your commercial swimming pool considering Ontario’s temperatures deter even the bravest swimmers, most DIY-ers make the mistake of painting their pool whatever the weather.

If it’s too cold or too wet, the paint won’t adhere, bond, or cure properly – resulting in more costs when it needs to be removed and repainted down the line. Professional contractors know exactly how to deal with wetness and what temperatures allow for proper painting.

And that’s just the tip of the swimming pool painting iceberg! There’s a lot to consider, tools to use, and training to rely on if you’d like to revolutionize your commercial pool without causing costly problems in the process.

With the contractors at Diotte Coating Services, you won’t have to worry about a thing! We exclusively use the highest quality coatings from leading brands to ensure a pool that you can be proud of – with no future paint failures!