I just wanted to share that fun little tidbit. The movie comes out next year, September 2014.
Showing posts with label resurfacing the pool. Show all posts
Showing posts with label resurfacing the pool. Show all posts
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Fun Little Tidbit. My pool will be a "Star" in a movie.
I did this video last year of how I resurfaced my pool, myself. A production company contacted me and will be using it in a movie "Wish I were Here" with Zach Braff and Kate Hudson. Zach Braff will be sitting at a table by his pool watching my video on an IPad through youtube, as he wants to resurface his pool himself in the movie. He will be watching how I did it. They will show a portion of the video in the movie. No, I am not getting paid anything for it, but it is fun anyway.
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Video of my redoing my pool myself! It was resurfaced and retiled!
I thought I would go ahead and put together a video of my redoing my pool. It was desperately needed.
The tile was cracked up and the surface was old and also damaged from a hail storm.
This video is of my project of competely resurfacing and retiling my pool.
I had been quoted $15,000 by two different companies to resurface the pool. I decided to do it myself. After researching about pool resurfacing for many weeks and weighing my options of epoxy paint or plaster. I chose plaster. Epoxy paint can and will peel after time. I wanted it done where it would last. I found a material and company Sider Crete. http://www.sider-crete.com/, though at that time they were Sider Oxydro.
I tried to hire people over and over again to help me. I even advertised on Craigslist and called many people. But it seemed no one wanted to help me no matter what as it was too difficult a job. So... I ended up doing it myself. The only two things I did not do myself was grind down the old tile (though I had started using an impact drill to get it out totally), and putting the tiles on. Other than that, I grouted the tiles and resurfaced it myself. It is actually a three person job.
There were many many steps to redoing the pool and it took me one and half months to finish it. I spent 12+ hours a day in the pool. Also the person who put the tiles in, made a mess and spilled mortar all over the pool surface.
It took me one week just to clean the mess out of the pool that he had created. I had to grind down the mortar besides grind down under the tiles due to excess mortar under them. But the whole cost was approximately $3500 compared to the $15000 I was quoted.
My pool needed to be retiled and refinished badly. I did this project in September to October 2011.
I have done many projects around my home, including laying wood floors myself, plumbing, electrical, laying tile and redoing bathrooms just to name a few projects.
I learned how to do it from researching on the internet and reading about it all. It shows a woman CAN DO what needs to be done herself! We CAN accomplish what we put our minds to!
Hope you enjoy the video. I will put more of my before and after projects on youtube.
The tile was cracked up and the surface was old and also damaged from a hail storm.
This video is of my project of competely resurfacing and retiling my pool.
I had been quoted $15,000 by two different companies to resurface the pool. I decided to do it myself. After researching about pool resurfacing for many weeks and weighing my options of epoxy paint or plaster. I chose plaster. Epoxy paint can and will peel after time. I wanted it done where it would last. I found a material and company Sider Crete. http://www.sider-crete.com/, though at that time they were Sider Oxydro.
I tried to hire people over and over again to help me. I even advertised on Craigslist and called many people. But it seemed no one wanted to help me no matter what as it was too difficult a job. So... I ended up doing it myself. The only two things I did not do myself was grind down the old tile (though I had started using an impact drill to get it out totally), and putting the tiles on. Other than that, I grouted the tiles and resurfaced it myself. It is actually a three person job.
There were many many steps to redoing the pool and it took me one and half months to finish it. I spent 12+ hours a day in the pool. Also the person who put the tiles in, made a mess and spilled mortar all over the pool surface.
It took me one week just to clean the mess out of the pool that he had created. I had to grind down the mortar besides grind down under the tiles due to excess mortar under them. But the whole cost was approximately $3500 compared to the $15000 I was quoted.
My pool needed to be retiled and refinished badly. I did this project in September to October 2011.
I have done many projects around my home, including laying wood floors myself, plumbing, electrical, laying tile and redoing bathrooms just to name a few projects.
I learned how to do it from researching on the internet and reading about it all. It shows a woman CAN DO what needs to be done herself! We CAN accomplish what we put our minds to!
Hope you enjoy the video. I will put more of my before and after projects on youtube.
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