Hey all! I'm still around...I usually don't check the forum until the pools open though!

As for the paint job, it's holding up very well. No more leaks, color still looks good, etc. That epoxy paint really is like a "hard candy shell" and I am confident that if in a couple of years it starts looks faded I can just give it a light top coat of blue and have it looking like new again.

The only thing I forgot (and didn't realize until a year later!) was I forgot to put sand/no-slip in the paint on the stair tops. And they are SUPER slick. I still have a leftover gallon of paint and have been toying with just re-painting the stair tops and adding some texture material to fix this when it warms up.

Thats good to hear. I've read some replies to other threads saying paint is a rip off, doesn't last more than a year or two, etc..... Makes me wonder if those folks didn't use epoxy based paint, didn't apply it right, or are just partial to the "mercedes solution" ie. re-plastering.

You said the walls were fiberglass? Where the walls meet the concrete, you just used a silicon sealer to water proof the gap between the bottom of the wall and top of concrete slope? Ive never seen a pool with fiberglass walls and concrete floor.

My curiosity is aroused. On your website, Step 1--Drain the pool, you have a picture showing the fiberglass side with the skimmer that has numerous round bubbles on the siding. Did you just paint over them, or did you grind them down and patch them or what? As stated, just curious, and interested in how that part of the fiberglass wall is holding up.