Where did it all start?

In 1997, being a pool owner for many years, I had enough of the constant troubles with a marble plaster swimming pool.  When a friend started a business manufacturing high quality epoxy coatings, he showed me their products and told me that some of these epoxies are used for coating the hulls of large sea vessels,  I thought:  "If this could work on ship's hulls in the harsh conditions of the ocean, why not on my swimming pool?" 

We started testing and the results were excellent. We started marketing his products.  This cost-saving solution offered to swimming pool owners soon became a family business. All went well for a year, then disaster struck! The factory closed down due to problems between the partners of the business. It left us without a good product. I knew back then that this sought-after solution couldn't be left to die. My swimming pool was a breeze to maintain and this cost-effective solution could revolutionize the swimming pool refurbishing industry!

We tried other products from a few other epoxy suppliers, trying one product after the other, costing us thousands in "school fees". The quality was just not what we had before. After-sale service and support was almost non-exsistent. The formulations were rather intended and developed many years earlier for the floor-coating industry.

Desperate to found a trustworthy solution, I started my own research into the composition and specifications of the chemical ingredients used in these older epoxy solutions. While reverse engineering these traditional formulations, I came to realize why these products were failing under certain conditions.

After months of research, and with the help of epoxy industry experts, I started implementing the latest technologies available in the epoxy industry into the formulations. We were successful in overcomming the many problems relating to:

• application difficulties,
• chemical resistance,
• color stability,
• water spot resistance (early rain resistance),
• UV protection to prevent chalking and breaking down of the epoxy layer,
• better bonding strength to prevent lamination or blistering especially due to reverse osmosis.

This research took me a year and a small fortune, but we started out with our own improved and industry-targeted products that gave us the advantage and the breakthroughs needed to offer a quality and trustworthy product to the swimming pool market again.

I was back in business, and this time with a product that I could trust. Over the years we kept on testing and improving our products where we found room for improvement.

The test panels we used in 2003 are still available and after years of exposure to outside weather, the difference in performance can clearly be seen. Visit our Product Info page to see the test results.

Today we proudly offer our clients one of the best and most durable epoxy coatings on the market for swimming pools, at a very affordable price.