Routine maintenance is required to keep the visual appearance of your swimming pool, which requires maintenance beyond the addition of chemicals for water purity. Painting the pool correctly requires professional guidance and advisory which can be facilitated by experts. Maintenance goes beyond the traditional if the painting of the current swimming pool has peeled off severely, this is where sandblasting swimming pools come into play.

In prior to repainting a cement swimming pool, all traces of old paint need to be cleared and sandblasting swimming pools is the technique used to bring the best outcome. This involves the use of specific equipment that will direct a scratchy technique on the pool’s surface. Sandblasting swimming pools at Blasttl are facilitated with expert staff who are able to cater for your needs and at convenience spread across Melbourne, from South-eastern Melbourne, Northern Melbourne, Western Melbourne, and Victoria.

The following are the most common steps used for sandblasting swimming pools:

1. Commencing with having the pool drained away and dried with all pool lights, ladders removed from the pool. A thick plastic tape needs to be used to cover anything that cannot be removed from the swimming pool. The staff who will be performing sandblasting at Blasttl are well trained and will be equipped with protective gloves, clothes, goggles and a respirator.
2. Secondly, the air shutoff, flow control and nozzle shutoff valves should also be completely sealed and closed.
3. The sandblasting medium needs to be filled into the tank by taking off the filler valve. Ensuring the proper medium is being used is important. Most swimming pools are made of concrete or fibreglass; therefore ‘Black Beauty’ is recommended for hard surfaces to blast. And ‘Flint Shot’ is recommended for fibreglass swimming pools which requires light blasting.
4. Standing in the deep end of the pool while holding the hose in the right direction the shutoff valve nozzle needs to be open slowly until enough sand is released to bring the desired effect.
5. This needs to be continued until the entire surface if sandblasted concluding the sandblasting by ensuring the air shutoff valve is closed and the pressure relief valve is open.
6. As a final step, the dust and debris need to be removed from the pool with a vacuum and washing of the pool takes place to finish the sandblasting swimming pools