Pool painting service in Los Angeles

Not necessarily. Painting looks like a rolling job, so some painters advertise it without much experience of concrete pools, immersed coatings, rust, cracks, failed tiles or surface moisture. Ask how they identify an incompatible coating, how they find the source of rust rather than covering the stain, what weather window they need, how many coats are included and who will actually do the work. Clear, practical answers are worth more than a promise that everything is included.

Our concrete pool painting starts from about $3,500 plus sales tax, and an average-sized pool is commonly around $4,800 plus tax. Larger pools, or pools needing extensive removal, repair and preparation, run roughly $6,500 to $9,500 plus tax. Those are our guide prices; we quote the job after seeing the pool.

Two coats are the standard application. A third can be quoted as an optional extra and may extend the useful life of the coating, provided the recoat timing and conditions suit it.

We inspect and quote all year, but painting needs a settled run of warm, dry weather. In Los Angeles that usually means from August or spring through to around mid-April. We look for several rain-free days and suitable temperatures before committing to coating dates.

Normally at least seven days before filling. It can feel dry within hours, but touch-dry is not the same as ready for continuous immersion, and cooler conditions need longer. Follow the written instruction supplied for your own project.

No. We prepare and repair as thoroughly as the quoted scope allows, but epoxy stays a thin coating over the existing surface. Pitting, old undulations, previous repairs and recurring pinholes can remain visible, and are usually much less noticeable once the pool is filled.

No. Epoxy goes onto a dry, clean, prepared shell: failed coating stripped back, concrete patched, rust treated, the surface washed and left to dry. None of that happens under water, and anything sold as paint you can roll into a full pool is not a pool coating. If the pool cannot be emptied safely — a high water table after a wet week is the usual reason — the answer is to wait for the ground to drop, not to paint it wet.

Epoxy is the long one: five to seven years in a Los Angeles pool before it chalks and the color flattens, longer on a shaded pool held at steady chemistry. Chlorinated rubber and acrylic coatings run two to four. The same short list shortens all of them — full sun on a shallow end, chlorine held high, a pool left standing empty, and preparation skipped underneath. A repaint is a smaller job than the first one when the existing coating is the same type and still bonded — which is the argument for keeping the data sheet for whatever went on last time.

No. Recoating an existing pool is repair rather than construction, and it is not permitted work. A permit comes in when the job changes the pool — plumbing, bonding, a new light, a raised beam, a change of shape — and once one is pulled for a remodel, California's drowning-prevention rules for barriers and drain covers apply to that job. If a quoted repair crosses that line we say so before it starts, on licence CSLB #970493, classes C-53 and C-61/D-35.

Painting is cheaper up front and shorter-lived, and that is the entire trade. Ours starts at $3,500 plus tax; interior resurfacing starts at $7,500 and most projects land between $10,000 and $20,000. Neither is priced by the gallon — both are quoted by interior surface area, so a 40,000-gallon pool with steps, benches and a spa is a bigger number than a plain rectangle holding the same water. Paint is the right call on a shell that is structurally sound; plaster is the right call once the surface itself has gone, and the resurfacing page sets out which is which.