INSL-X Waterborne, Semi-Gloss Acrylic Pool Paint, Black, 1 Gallon

Paint worked wonderfully, Cleaned the pool, and did first coat, let it dry 24 hours before doing second coat, after second coat we waited 7 days to fill the pool! No bubbling, cracking or any other issues! The color looks amazing! The paint easily coated the pool.

I did a complete pool overhaul on our 30+ year old in-ground concrete pool. As you can see in the pictures, it was in pretty rough shape! I was quoted $12k-15k for a new plaster job, which is not in our budget! So, I decided to paint it. This was my first time painting a pool, and this is my story.We live on the Georgia coast, right at sea level, so our first step before completely draining our pool was to locate the well point. If you live in an area with a high water table, contact the company that installed your in-ground pool and ask them if they installed a well point on your pool and, if so, where is it located. Any pool company worth its weight will pre-install this well point for your pool when they are constructing the pool itself.I connected our old pool pump / service pump to the well point and kept it running 24/7 while the pool was empty. It had a constant trickle of water, accompanied by large gusts of ground water every ~90 seconds. If you don't do this, you risk your pool floating like a ship!Once the pool was drained and pressure washed thoroughly, I rinsed it with muriatic acid, followed by TSP and lots of water. I found several de-laminated spots in the plaster where it was just crumbling or bubbling and coming off in sheets; all of that plaster had to be chipped up and removed to provide a sound surface. We removed a lot of the plaster on the bottom and patched the spots where exposed concrete was visible with a polymer-modified porcelain tile thinset. The rest we just left alone. Once all of the holes were patched, we swept the pool and prepped it for paint.The paint instructions say to apply the paint to a dry surface, so we let our pool dry in the Georgia sun for 2 days straight before painting. We checked the weather forecast to make sure we had at least 3-7 days of weather with no rain. I found that the instructions were correct on this; our paint adhesion got better and better with each passing day.We applied the first coat and let it dry for 4 hours. And despite the paint instructions to NOT apply paint in direct sunlight, we did anyway. It was extremely hot in the Georgia sun, but the paint still went on good and dried good. We applied the second coat -- which by the way goes on easier than the first coat -- and then cleaned up and called it a day. I then carefully pealed up the Frog painters tape off of the tile line. I noticed that the paint acted like it would easily peel off of the pool surface at this point -- like a cheap latex paint -- but I convinced myself that it just needed a lot of "cure time" to adhere to the concrete correctly. And this was correct! After 7 days of curing in the sun, the spots where I thought it would peel was now stuck on like glue and not going anywhere! Also, the 7 days also allowed for the globs of paint that dripped off of the rollers, that I never noticed or would have cleaned up!So long story short, this paint is excellent and I would definitely recommend it and buy it again. Just make sure you do your prep-work and follow up with care and it will look great.For our 18' x 36' pool (roughly 25k gallons), we used 8.5 gallons of "Ocean Blue" waterborne paint to two-coat it. With all supplies (Pool paint, Tiles, thinset, grout, etc.), we probably spent $2k total.INSL-X WR102309A-01 Waterborne, Semi-Gloss Pool Paint, 1 Gallon, Ocean Blue

We have a large pool. 38,000gallons. It was let to sit for more than 10years prior to us purchasing the house. $25k estimate to redo the plaster. decided to do this ourselves. Ordered 7 gallons based on the estimate, used 5. Did 4 coats to get it evenly coated. We had very coarse and stained plaster.You have to be careful in the transitions from sidewalls to floor. It is easy to get too thick and then it dries chalky as described on the instructions. We did 3 coats as per instructions then a last coat slightly extra water for thinner coat to not have the greying. Success!Like we read, it does fade fast. Faded ~2 shades from finished before we filled at 10 days. Still looks quite good but if you want a deeper blue, get the darker blue color. We went with ocean blue.We did the hot tub with an epoxy product due to heat. This stuff cleans up soooooo much easier. Does not cover as well, and is probably easier to work with. Will need to update later after seeing longevity of the product.

Great pool paint. Covers well

After 20 years our light blue Inground Florida pool faded to faded to white so we decided to resurface clean and paint it deep blue. We found this Royal blue and fell in love with it.. Our pool and others in our neighborhood are maintained year round by a professional pool maintenance company. Since they also painted some of our neighbors pools in the past we decided to use them for this project instead of trying to do it ourselves. That was April 2022. As you can see from the Before & After pictures the results were striking dramatic and gorgeous. The color lasted For 3 months until July 2022 when we started noticing that the color was getting Lighter and lighter. In August we started noticing a dark dust On the pool floor that kept getting heavier and heavier while while the color of the pool kept getting lighter and lighter and lighter. Now 5 months later it looks like our pool was pool was never painted and there is always a never ending granular blue dust all over the bottom of our pool.. We purchased 10 gallons of this paint at $70 a gallon and had a professionally installed with 3 Coats . It not only looks like we never had our pool painted it is pool painted it is now full of this blue dust.I have been trying for a month to no Avail to Get through to the company but all my emails go unanswered. Stay away from this stuff. All of our neighbors pools painted by The same company that did mine with paint that was half the price have beautiful pools and mine looks like garbage. I was hoping to get a few years out of a professional pool painting instead I got barely 3 months.The job Took 8 gallons and I gave the other 2 gallons To my friend 2 towns over to painter ingrown spa and she has reported the same results

I was pleased to see on the can that this pool paint is manufactured by Benjamin Moore and I know a painter who swears by that brand. But, I'm more impressed with how smooth this paint rolled onto my concrete pool wall and how far it went. It took only a little more than half the paint that's been required in the past and it covered better too. The other brands of acrylic pool paints I've used before called for about a 3 day cure time before refilling, but this INSL-X paint says a minimum of 7 days cure time under ideal conditions, which leads me to think that something must be different about the formulation. The royal blue looks very nice and I'm glad I chose it over the lighter blue because fading is inevitable over time anyway. Based on my initial experience in applying this paint, I'm hopeful that it will be more durable than what I've used in the past, but I'll update this review if I have any problems with it over the summer. Thanks and good luck!