Pool Replastering in Garland, Texas
Rockwall Pool Resurfacing handles residential and commercial pool replastering in Garland, Texas, from backyard pools to the shared pools at apartment complexes, HOAs and hotels, in white or colored plaster. Garland had 246,018 people in the 2020 Census, and the Census Bureau estimates 249,625 for July 1, 2025: 249,458 in Dallas County and 167 in Collin County.
The Handbook of Texas puts downtown Garland on State Highways 66 and 78, fifteen miles northeast of downtown Dallas, with Duck Creek running through the city and Lake Ray Hubbard on its eastern border. Free estimates cover whether the old plaster can take a bond coat or has to come off, and which City office a pool answers to.
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A city built mostly before 1990
The 2020 Census counted 86,182 homes in Garland. In the Census Bureau's 2020–2024 survey, the median home was built in 1978: 27.6% of homes date from the 1970s, 18.9% from the 1980s and 27.3% from before 1970, so 73.7% were built before 1990, and only 10.5% are from 2010 or later. Single-family detached houses make up 68.4%, while 20,781 homes, 24.1%, are in buildings of five or more units. About 61.6% of occupied homes are lived in by their owners, and the median owner-occupied home is valued at $270,800.
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(469) 653-0486The residential pool permit and its affidavit
Garland's Building Inspection Department prices a residential in-ground pool permit at $550: $250 for the pool plus $150 each for electrical and plumbing. Above-ground pools, hot tubs and spas start at $250, and a 4.5% technology surcharge is added to every permit the department issues. An application needs scaled plans and a site plan, processing usually takes three to five business days, and a signed, notarized Swimming Pool/Hot Tub/Spa Affidavit has to reach the office before the permit is issued.
On that affidavit the owner certifies one of two protections for every door from the house into the pool area: an alarm that sounds for at least 30 seconds and can be heard throughout the house, or self-closing, self-latching doors with the latch at least 54 inches above the floor. The form lets the inspector skip entering the house to check those devices at the final inspection.
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(469) 653-0486Apartment, HOA and lodging pools under Environmental Health
Garland has adopted, with amendments, the state's rules for public pools, spas and interactive water features in the Texas Administrative Code, Title 25, Subchapters L and M, and its Environmental Health inspection program covers all commercial pools, spas and splash pads in the city. Each needs a City permit that expires on March 1 every year, and the City's steps to a permit call for a licensed electrician's inspection, a certified pool operator and a passed inspection.
The water chemistry the City requires
For apartment, HOA and lodging pools, Garland's required levels include calcium hardness of 150 to 1,000 ppm in a pool and 100 to 800 ppm in a spa, alkalinity of 60 to 180 ppm and a Langelier Saturation Index of -0.3 to +0.3, each checked every ten days, and the City notes that draining is the best way to lower cyanuric acid. A new finish has its own first month on top of that: the National Plasterers Council says a finish is especially susceptible to staining, scaling and discoloration in its first 28 days, and Pebble Technology International keeps the saturation index between -0.3 and +0.3 through those 28 days, a start-up range it designs for high-performance finishes rather than traditional plaster.
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(469) 653-0486Duck Creek, Embree and the Cowboy Hat Capital
Garland began between two rival railroad towns, Duck Creek and Embree. In late 1887 Congressman Joseph Abbott settled the matter by creating a town between them and putting the post office there, named for Augustus H. Garland, attorney general under Grover Cleveland, and Garland incorporated on April 21, 1891. A tornado destroyed much of the city on May 9, 1927, and killed seventeen people. The Handbook of Texas counts 10,571 people in 1950, about 72,000 in 1969, 180,650 in 1990 and 215,768 in 2000; the 246,018 counted in 2020 made Garland the thirteenth-largest city in Texas.
The Texas legislature named Garland the Cowboy Hat Capital of Texas in 2013, for Hatco and the city's other hat makers. In 2017 a two-block stretch of South 11th Street, with homes dating to 1913, became the first place in Garland on the National Register of Historic Places, followed by the Garland Downtown Historic District. The Handbook counts four outdoor aquatic facilities run by the City and a Hawaiian Falls water park, and the City's aquatics pages name Holford Pool, Bradfield Pool, Surf & Swim and its splash pads; Firewheel Town Center opened in 2005. Garland ISD, which also serves part of Rowlett and Sachse, enrolled 55,848 students in 2019–20.
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(469) 653-0486Clay and groundwater when the pool is empty
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service soil map puts Houston Black-Urban land complex, Houston Black clay mixed with built-over ground, under 25.2% of Garland and Dalco-Urban land complex under 11.4%, with frequently flooded Frio silty clay at 6.4% and Branyon clay at 6.1%. NRCS gives the main Houston Black soil a maximum linear extensibility of 17 percent, and the soils it rates very limited for slab houses because they shrink and swell cover 57.6% of the city's mapped land; that rating is for houses, not pools.
A replaster means an empty pool, so the water in the ground around it matters. SGM, the maker of Diamond Brite, says pools below the water table or leaking need special attention before its bond coat goes on, and the National Plasterers Council warns that water ponding against the outside of a shell, from rain, irrigation or a leaking irrigation pipe, can make a waterproofing membrane, bond coat or finish debond. Pentair's main drain guide describes the hydrostatic relief valve in a set of suction outlets, which lets groundwater pressure under the pool relieve into it.
The City of Garland buys its water from the North Texas Municipal Water District, says the state's environmental agency rates its water system "Superior", and serves about 99.0% of the city on the Texas Water Development Board's map. Its drought-stage rules for pools weren't confirmed, so check the current stage with the City before a pool is drained.
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(469) 653-0486Other pool work in Garland and next door
Rockwall Pool Resurfacing also handles plaster repair, quartz and pebble finishes, drain-and-acid-wash work, commercial tile and depth markers, and HOA and apartment pool resurfacing in Garland. In the neighbouring cities, we handle pool remodeling in Rowlett and pool tile repair in Sachse.
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(469) 653-0486How a pool is replastered, step by step
Ask the right office
Building Inspection handles a home pool's permits and Environmental Health a commercial pool's, and the office that covers the pool says what a replaster needs before it is drained.
Undercut and sound out
SGM's manual undercuts the old plaster 2 inches away from all tile and fittings and 3/8 inch deep, then sounds out hollow plaster, saws 3 inches outside each hollow spot and patches the hole.
Bond coat or chip-out
SGM's warranty terms require its Bond Kote system when its finish goes over an existing one; where the old finish is first removed by sandblasting or chipping, the bond coat may not be needed. Pebble Technology International's remodels strip the old surface first.
Trowel to thickness
The National Plasterers Council puts a cement pool finish at an average of at least 3/8 inch and at most 3/4 inch, and says the finish can't level an uneven shell beyond that.
Fill without stopping
The Council runs the fill continuously and as fast as possible to the middle of the skimmer, since a break can leave a discolored bowl ring, and the 28-day start-up begins once the pool is full.
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(469) 653-0486Replastering questions from Garland
Is a City permit needed to replaster a pool in Garland?
Ask before the pool is drained. No City of Garland page we read says whether replastering an existing pool takes a permit. Building Inspection answers for a home pool, where a new in-ground pool permit runs $550 plus the 4.5% surcharge, and Environmental Health answers for an apartment, HOA or hotel pool, which needs its yearly City permit in any case.
Does Garland charge an HOA pool for its yearly permit?
No. Garland's permits for commercial pools, spas and splash pads cost $300 per body of water, and the City says HOAs are not charged. The City's first follow-up inspection is free, and each later one costs $25.
Get a free pool replastering estimate in Garland
Rockwall Pool Resurfacing takes calls and estimate requests at any hour for replastering home and commercial pools in Garland. Say what kind of pool it is, roughly how big, and whether the old plaster is rough, stained or flaking.