A homeowner in East Hemet, CA brought us in right after their pool and spa had been freshly replastered. A brand new plaster finish isn't something you fill up and walk away from. How that surface looks and holds up for the next decade comes down to those first few weeks, so we took the startup on ourselves to make sure nothing got rushed.
We started by filling the pool in one continuous run. That matters more than it sounds. Once a fill begins you don't want to stop it, because pausing can leave a ring line on fresh plaster that's tough to undo later. In the early photos the water is coming in green and cloudy, which throws a lot of people off, but at this stage it's completely normal. The fill water and the fine dust lifting off the new surface haven't been touched by any chemistry yet.
From there the real work began, and this is the part that takes more than a single visit. New plaster gives off a fine dust as it cures, so we brushed the whole surface down and kept brushing it over the days that followed, working that dust off the walls and floor before it could settle and harden into the finish. We kept the equipment running to pull the material through the filter, and we held the water in balance the entire time, watching pH, alkalinity, and calcium so the curing plaster never sat in water that could stain or etch it.
Bit by bit the green gave way. The dust cleared, the chemistry settled, and the pool and spa came around to the clean blue you can see in the finished shots, with the new surface cured evenly and set up to last.
Here's the part worth understanding: the resurfacing is the expensive half of the job, but the startup is what protects it. Rush it or skip it, and the marks that show up in those first weeks can stay locked into the plaster for as long as the surface lives. We treat the startup with the same care a new finish deserves.
Just had your pool or spa replastered around East Hemet? Reach out and we'll handle the startup the right way, from the first fill to a finished, balanced pool. We service East Hemet and nearby areas in Riverside County. A new finish only gets one startup, and we make sure it's the one that sets it up to last.
