EPOXY POOL PAINT THAT LASTS

DURING 1997, being a pool owner for many years, I had enough of the constant troubles keeping a marble plastered swimming pool clean and shiny.  I tried re-painting my swimming pool with of-the shelve cement/water-based "pool paint" with disastrous results and having to constantly remove the little paint chips cluttering my filter system for the next year or two. Normal pool paints available of-the-shelve just didn't seem to be a trustworthy solution.

The following year, a friend visited me who has just started a business, manufacturing a new breakthrough-technology epoxy coating product. He showed me the test results and told me that this  technology is targeted 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 the swimming pool paint and the results were amazing. We started marketing the product to home-owners. This cost-saving solution offered to swimming pool owners soon developed into a family business.

Disaster struck a few years later when the factory supplying the epoxy paint closed down due to a split in partnership. It left us without a good product. I knew back then that this sought-after solution couldn't be left to fade away. My swimming pool was a breeze to maintain with the gloss, enamel epoxy paint and this cost-effective solution could revolutionize the swimming pool refurbishing industry!

We tried other epoxy pool paint products from a few other so-called swimming pool epoxy manufacturers, 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-existent. The formulations were rather old technology targeted for the epoxy floor-coating industry and it did not perform well under constant submerged conditions, let alone working with these products in an outdoor environment with potential rain contamination.

After months of research and with the help of technical advisors from internationally acclaimed chemical companies, I started implementing the latest technologies available in the epoxy industry with latest water-resistant epoxies hardeners and additives. With the new formulations we were successful in overcoming the many problems relating to:  

• chemical resistance,
• colour 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 on a wide variety of substrate types and densities

This research took me a year and a small fortune, but we started out with our own improved and industry-customised epoxy pool paint that gave us the advantage and the breakthroughs we have hoped for. We can now offer a quality and trustworthy product to the swimming pool market, setting a standard with a well-tested 4-layer system that stood the test of time.

We were the first company to offer a 3-year warranty against delamination even to the DIY market. After more years of testing we started offering a 5-year extended warranty. Many others suppliers had to up their game and started offering a warranty to the DIY market as well, sometimes with disastrous results. We have seen several swimming pool paint companies come and go over the years.

Of course, some competitors nowadays are also offering a warranty, in many cases with boisterous claims not worth anything but serving as a marketing gimmick. This is why we have opted for an independent customer rating platform like Hellopeter.com to confirm our commitment to product quality and after-sale service.  We envite our visitors to verify our reputation as a market leader in an industry riddled with many pitfalls.

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. We are constantly developing and improving our product, testing the latest available technologies.

Our business is situated in Pretoria and as family-managed business is still focussed on friendly and personalised service to our customers.

We supply wholesale to a well-vetted dealer network, export our product to other countries and sell directly from our factory to DIY enthusiasts country wide.