Category: Pool Tips

Remodel This Winter for a Stunning Look Next Summer Winter is the best time to start your swimming pool remodeling. Because winter is the “off season” for pool use, it is also the best time for remodeling. If you get a head start, you’ll have a new and beautiful pool before spring. That’s just enough time […]

Get the Surface You Deserve When it comes down to it, there’s more than a few reasons to resurface your swimming pool besides the fact that it’s “old”. In some cases, there are certain signs that indicate resurfacing becomes a necessity. So why should you need to resurface your swimming pool? We can give you […]

Find a Look that Catches Your Eye If you’re thinking about pool renovations for your southern California home, you’ve come to the right place. Since 1981, Alan Smith Pools has specialized in pool resurfacing, replastering, and construction. So, what makes us different than the rest? Well, we like to do things slightly different than other […]

[youtube embed=”NR_CGqD1Bd4″ autoplay=”0|1″ mute=”0|1″]   Pool Plasterers & Scientists Collaborate for Spot Etching Answers In the last segment we laid out the major theories that we were able to test with our group of pool plasterers and scientists. And so, at last, we come to the crux of it all. Why spend all of this […]

[youtube embed=”RRjDZIcaaVs” autoplay=”0|1″ mute=”0|1″]   How Does Spot Etching Develop in Pool Plastering? If you’ve followed this pool plastering series from the beginning, we hope you have a pretty clear picture of what spot etching is and how it happens in pool plastering. In this segment we are going to take a closer look at […]

[youtube embed=”1my-p8X7XD8″ autoplay=”0|1″ mute=”0|1″]   What Are We Seeing Happen? Now that you know what plaster is, we can start to understand etching a little bit better. Remember, when we talk about etching, we are specifically referring to the white splotches that often occur in pool plaster. Let’s take a minute now to understand what […]