Pool Plaster Mix

Despite what the contractor s salesmen want you to believe it is not a mysterious material containing diamonds or secret ingredients.

Pool plaster mix.

During the mixing process these ingredients are. Water should not be added to plaster surfaces during troweling because of the strong risk potential. For use on small plaster cracks and gaps. The ingredients of pool plaster mix are a 1 2 ratio of white portland cement with an aggregate that may be marble dust limestone or quartz sand.

Product overview made from a waterproof cement base this 50 lb. Plaster is a mix of white cement white sand or marble aggregate and water. Pool plaster is traditionally a mix of white portland cement and marble dust but there are dozens of additives for strength ease of application and color. In fact it is recommended that if the plaster has been mixed for more than 90 minutes the batch should be discarded.

Plasterers can add color additives to produce any shade of plaster or use quartz glass or ceramic aggregate to add flecks of specific hues. Although usually white plaster can be dyed different colors. Pool plaster is nothing more than a kind of concrete that is a mix of portland cement aggregate and additives. The pool builders apply the plaster to the concrete pool structure using a flat round edged trowel see image below.