A pool renovation can be a single crack repair or a complete remodel, so its cost depends on how far up the ladder your pool needs to go: repair, repaint, resurface, retile and recope, or remodel. Bigger jobs often include the repairs from the smaller ones, and the right step is the smallest one that fixes the problem.
Step 1: Repairs
Cracks chased and filled, a leak repaired, hollow render or loose tiles made good. Repairs are priced on the number and size of the problems and how hard they are to reach. A leak is found first by a leak detection specialist; we then repair it.
Chasing out a wall crack below the waterline tiles
Step 2: Repainting
For a sound pool that has been painted before. The cost is mostly preparation: draining, removing loose paint, patching and letting the surface dry, then the paint itself.
Patching a painted pool before repainting
Step 3: Resurfacing
A new pebble, quartz or glass-bead interior over a prepared shell. The finish and the condition of the old surface drive the price; our pool resurfacing cost guide explains both.
Our waterfront renovation in Church Point: a new interior, pale coping and travertine paving
Step 4: Retiling and recoping
New waterline tiles, a fully tiled interior, or new coping around the pool. Often done with a resurface, so the pool is emptied only once. Tile choice matters: glass mosaic costs more than porcelain, and natural stone coping more than concrete.
Cutting glass mosaic inside the pool
Step 5: Remodelling
Changing the pool itself: reshaping it, raising a deep end, adding steps or a bench seat, or rebuilding failing structure. This is building work inside an existing pool. It usually needs approval, which we arrange, takes about 4 to 8 weeks on site once approved, and is priced like a small new build. See pool refurbishment and remodelling.
A crew member beside curved formwork in an existing pool
What else changes the price
- Access to the backyard for people, materials and equipment.
- Equipment such as pumps, filters and heating, if it is replaced at the same time.
- Surrounds: paving, fencing and landscaping are separate from the pool itself.
- Approval and the safety barrier, where the work changes the structure or the barrier has to be brought up to standard.
Where to start
Start with what bothers you about the pool now, then have the shell and surface looked at before deciding how far to go. More about our pool renovations, or see one of our jobs: the waterfront renovation in Church Point.
