Inground pool question #598 (plastering stage)

[Spoisal]

How long after plastering a pool do you have before you have to fill it with water? Are you supposed to do it the same day - the next day - if you wait a couple of days, does that ruin anything? Thanks! My plastering crew just arrived at 4pm on a Friday! Is that nuts or what?

 

[mudnuri]

Do you not have a pool company coordinating the work?

Brandy

 

[Spoisal]

oh - yeah - we have a pool company....I was just wondering what the next step was & when. We have a pool company, but communication isn't their best asset!

 

[Disney-Kim]

You must start filling the pool as soon as they are done !!! VERY IMPORTANT !! the plaster cures under water. You don't want it to dry out or it will crack. as soon as they are done they should throw the hose in and get it going. It took our pool about 14-15 hours to fill.
We just put a plaster pool in last year.

 

[Spoisal]

The hose is in there & it is filling up! It is cool how blue the water looks. We need more than 15,000 gallons of water - the pool company said it will take all weekend to fill

 

[Lil_Tink]

Thats gonna be a big water bill....


Lol. Congrats on the pool

 

[luvflorida]

How long after plastering a pool do you have before you have to fill it with water? Are you supposed to do it the same day - the next day - if you wait a couple of days, does that ruin anything? Thanks! My plastering crew just arrived at 4pm on a Friday! Is that nuts or what?

Hi! Remember me, the pool building thread? We were told that the pool had to be filled with water as soon as possible after the plastering was done. The crew wouldn't even come out and start the plastering until they were certain that we had water ready to go in. A few hours after the plastering was complete water went into the pool. We had the water brought in by trucks and it took very little time to fill the pool.

The water guy did say that it was fine to fill the pool with just a hose. The important thing is to make sure that the water goes in continuously. If you stop it at any tme there is the possibility of a water line forming on the plaster.

 

[DVC Jen]

oh - yeah - we have a pool company....I was just wondering what the next step was & when. We have a pool company, but communication isn't their best asset!

boy oh boy oh boy can I relate to that. The fiasco we have been having with our pool company is directly related to lack of communication between them, their subcontractors and us.

The last thing was the straw that broke the camels back. When they actually do work it is fantastic, but .........

Our latest saga is since we don't have a gas line to our house we had to go with an acrylic pool. Well they came up with the design to sink it.. so it would look like a normal natural part of the pool. They drew up the contract. We signed it and NOW they are saying they can't sink it unless we pay another 1,400.00 . I am about ready to kill them!

.. OK.. sorry.. this is your pool question thread not my pool rant thread.

I think you need to start filling it immediately after and not stop until it is full. If you do stop it can leave marks or stain lines on the plaster.

 

[DVC Jen]

You must start filling the pool as soon as they are done !!! VERY IMPORTANT !! the plaster cures under water. You don't want it to dry out or it will crack. as soon as they are done they should throw the hose in and get it going. It took our pool about 14-15 hours to fill.
We just put a plaster pool in last year.

how many gallons is your pool? Ours is 14,000 and we were told it would take a day. I don't believe it though. We don't have the greatest water pressure and I am expecting it to take several days.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

We could start filling within the next day or two...it might have been even the same day after several hour wait. I don't remember exactly--but it was way sooner than I expect. .

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

how many gallons is your pool? Ours is 14,000 and we were told it would take a day. I don't believe it though. We don't have the greatest water pressure and I am expecting it to take several days.

Ours is 15000 gallons....and now after reading the other post....we did do it the same day. .

We started at 2pm and less than 24 hours later it was filled....we did cheat a little bit about when it was half filled and ran a 2nd hose from another location into it.

 

[Melrosgirl]

we built an in ground pool 3 years ago (nightmare). We had the water trucked in (built it during a major drought, so using a hose wasn't allowed). Our pool is 25,000 gallons. Our water pressure in the backyard is really bad. It would have taken 3 days to fill it up. water went in the same day as the plaster.