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Why Shotcrete is a Great Building Material for Your Pool?
There are many reasons why concrete swimming pools are preferred over others. The flexibility in the design which it offers is one of the reasons. The other major reason is that it is highly durable. Custom concrete pools these days are built using a material known as wet shotcrete or dry shotcrete. Let us look at why shotcrete makes the best choice to build your swimming pond.
How shotcrete is used
When the pool is excavated, dry-reinforced is sprayed into it. It makes designing the custom concrete pool into any shape an easy task. This makes it much more inexpensive than pouring the concrete into the pond and then shaping it. Many individuals prefer the shotcrete method because it makes creating aesthetic designs easy. Wet shotcrete is known to have much better results than dry reinforced material.
The shotcrete binds very easily with whatever kind of pool surface you choose for your pond. For instance, brick, stone, tile, rock, etc. are used for the pool's excavation. This is another reason why dry-reinforced is a highly preferred material for building pools.
Benefits of using shotcrete
There are many other benefits of using shotcrete apart from the fact that you can design the pond in many beautiful shapes. Dry-reinforced pools also make it very easy to install tiles onto the insides of the pool. This is because the materials used in making the shotcrete are very compatible with almost all tiles brands that are specifically designed for the pond. Pools made with dry-reinforced are also much easier to clean. You can vacuum them, wash and scrub them and use different methods to clean them.
Custom concrete pools made with shotcrete are also very durable in nature compared to poured concrete. In order to give more durability to the pool, plaster is used to cover the dry-reinforced instead of liners. When liners are used instead of pool plasters, they tend to have a problem of bubbling. Pool plasters on the other hand, are available in various styles and designs. This makes it the best choice of coating for the pool interiors. Shotcrete also helps prevent erosion and is also used for better slope stabilization.
Also you do not have to worry about quality of the dry-reinforced used in your custom concrete pool. This is because the shotcrete is mixed in a factory and then brought directly to the site where the pool is being built. If you are considering building a pool make sure you hire contractors who make use of wet-reinforced in the pool building process.
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