Thursday, January 22, 2009

Poolside Concrete Polishing

By Rick Amorey

I miss the swimming pool in our back yard.

Actually, what's outside is a hole in the ground. It's not technically a pool, as water keeps on draining out. Over time, we slowly piled old unused junk into it. Which is actually a good thing, as it serves as a deterrant to neighborhood skaters. In the case of my neighbor (who also has a pool), she couldn't keep them off her property.

Recently, we've come into some money and have elected to fix up the pool. By our calculations, we found that we would have a little extra funds to fix up the aesthetics of the surrounding area as well. So the next day, we went around to look for whatever would work with it.

However, we realized very quickly that our budget for upgrading the look of the pool was not enough to purchase the classier sort of tilings. We opted to pass on the cheaper ones, as the ones we now have were much better anyway. We decided to just go home and enjoy the now useable pool.

Talking to a friend of mine who came over one day to enjoy our new pool, I found out something which interested me to no end. I didn't know about it, but he stated that concrete tiling for the pool area would probably work and would look good. He pointed out that the surrounding area was concrete anyway; all I needed was to find a contractor to work on it.

So there: My friend very kindly logged me on to the Concrete Polishing website and within a matter of minutes found a contractor willing to come over and help with fixing up our pool. We scheduled a meeting next weekend and I'm sure our swimming pool will very soon have a handsome new polished concrete floor. - 16492

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