Painting Your Swimming Pool/Spa?
The advantages of painting you pool or spa are:
- Decorative
- Seamless
- Easy to clean
- Long lasting
Compared to Tiles; paint offers a seamless finish, no tile joints
to get dirty, no tiles to fall off.
Compared to an Aggregate finish (which cannot be refurbished);
paint has no rough surfaces to scratch the skin, and a smooth finish
for easy cleaning.
When selecting your pool paint there are two types.
Single pack, such as Chlorinated Rubber and two pack Epoxy.
To distinguish between them:
Chlorinated Rubber Epoxy
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Limited colour range
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Extensive colour range
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Lasts 2-3`years
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Lasts 7-10+ years
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Single pack
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Two pack
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Higher cost per year
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Lower cost per year
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Easy to recoat
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Need to sand to recoat
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Chalks (whitens)
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Yellows slightly to UV exposure
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Soft surface
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Hard surface
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High solvent content (smelly)
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Virtually solvent free
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Coating Technologies Ltd, manufactures both types of “pool
paint.” The epoxy, called Epotec, out sells the Chlorinated
Rubber paint by many times, due to its longer lasting, harder
wearing features.
The Epotec epoxy has proven to be the best, long term pool paint
in NZ, with over 25 years performance.
If you need further guidance contact Coating Technologies Ltd.
