Solitaire Lane Pool, Paerata
Sandblast and Polyfusion Coating
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The Challenge
The pool’s conventional paint coating had begun chalking and flaking into the water, a sign that a further repaint would not resolve the underlying problem. The family needed a longer term solution rather than another coat of paint, which meant the old paint had to be fully removed before any replacement lining could be considered.
Our Approach
BlastOff sandblasted the pool shell to strip back the chalking, flaking paint and expose a clean, sound substrate ready for the new lining. Once the shell was prepared, IBIX Polyfusion was applied as a heat fused polymer coating that bonds directly to the pool shell, forming a continuous waterproof layer across the treated surface. Preparing the substrate thoroughly before application gave the lining a consistent base to bond to across the whole pool.
The Outcome
The Paerata family received a renovated pool with a Polyfusion lining bonded to a properly prepared shell, replacing the paint system that had been chalking and flaking. The finished lining is designed to hold its surface without shedding material into the pool water, giving the household a refreshed, waterproof pool interior.
When a Repaint Won't Cut It: Stripping and Relining a Failing Pool on Solitaire Lane
The pool at a Solitaire Lane property in Paerata had reached the point every pool owner eventually dreads, the conventional paint coating was chalking and flaking into the water, and another coat of paint over the top was never going to solve it.
BlastOff sandblasted the pool shell back to a clean, sound substrate, stripping away the failing paint entirely rather than layering new material over old, then applied IBIX Polyfusion, a heat fused polymer lining that bonds directly to the prepared shell to form a continuous waterproof finish. The choice to blast rather than patch matters here. Chalking paint is a sign the existing coating has broken down at a chemical level, and anything applied over it tends to fail again in the same way, often faster the second time. Removing it completely gave the new lining a genuinely clean surface to bond to, rather than an unstable base that would undermine the finish regardless of what was applied.
For families weighing up a pool renovation after noticing similar chalking or flaking, the substrate condition is really the deciding factor in how the job should be scoped, not the age of the pool or how the surface looks from a distance. A shell that still tests sound underneath failing paint is usually a good candidate for this kind of strip and reline approach, since the structure itself does not need to be rebuilt, only properly prepared.
The finished pool at Solitaire Lane gives the family a lining designed to hold its surface without shedding material into the water, replacing a coating system that had already failed once. Anyone in a similar position should get the shell assessed before assuming a simple recoat will fix what is actually a preparation problem. BlastOff’s IBIX Polyfusion pool coating service covers both the blasting and the lining application as one coordinated project.
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