Quartz Pool Finishes in Leander, TX
Leander Pool Resurfacing installs quartz pool finishes in Leander, Texas: cement-based finishes with quartz aggregate, such as SGM's Diamond Brite, NPT's QuartzScapes and CL Industries' Krystalkrete. SGM explains why the mineral holds up: unlike marble, quartz aggregate is completely insoluble, even in strong acid, and polymer-modified cement adds hardness, improves bonding and cuts water penetration.
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Quartz finish options: Diamond Brite, QuartzScapes and other blends
What goes into a quartz finish
SGM describes Diamond Brite as a blend of quartz aggregate, insoluble coated quartz and polymer-modified cement, made to resist traditional plaster problems. CL Industries builds Krystalkrete from enriched white Portland cement and color-coated quartz aggregates, and calls quartz a beautiful alternative to marcite that gives a strong, nonporous, stain-resistant finish. The National Plasterers Council says the quartz is exposed by hard troweling plus one of several exposure techniques, so the surface can run from smooth to textured, and calls it an affordable option.
Brands, blends and price tiers
NPT offers QuartzScapes in 18 colors, and a lower-cost ColorScapes line of colored quartz, white marble and white cement with its Lobo modifier. Wet Edge Technologies sells Luna Quartz as an entry-level finish and warns that this type of finish may show trowel marks and color shading, while its Altima blends marble and quartz. Pebble Technology International's PebbleQuartz is silica-based, which the maker says gives much greater durability than marble-based quartz finishes, with the clean, uniform look of plaster.
Quartz, plaster, pebble or polished
Against standard plaster, the Council says colored ceramic quartz aggregates make a harder surface that resists changing water chemistry far better, though they cost more and can still show surface problems when the chemistry goes to extremes. White plaster through pool replastering is the budget end. The Council rates quartz a 10 to 15 year surface against 12 to 18 for pebble pool finishes and 8 to 12 for polished pool finishes, and SGM notes that a smooth, light quartz surface shows mineral staining and mottling sooner than textured pebble. A side-by-side look at pool finishes weighs cost against surface life.
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How a quartz finish is mixed, troweled and exposed
Ordering and mixing
SGM says each 80 lb bag of Diamond Brite covers about 22 to 25 square feet at a minimum of 3/8 inch, with surface roughness changing the coverage, and tells installers to order 5 to 10 percent extra, because an area plastered later from a different delivery can't be matched. Because the finish is made in batches from natural ingredients, shade varies between them, so installers record batch numbers and blend batches in every mix. Each mix runs at least 5 and no more than 10 minutes: too short gives uneven setting and shade, too long a weaker plaster.
Troweling
SGM recommends slick troweling, which brings the cement paste to the surface and takes it off with the trowel, leaving a slick surface that needs less exposure. Spike holes from the finishers' shoes are filled with quartz aggregate, not troweled paste, or they show as holes with no aggregate. CL Industries applies Krystalkrete about 3/8 inch thick, in temperatures above 40°F.
Exposing the quartz
SGM calls for one worker for every 300 square feet and gives the exposure about an hour; starting too early or too late leaves it uneven. Standard Diamond Brite is water-washed with soft brushes once the surface loses its sheen, by crews in white cotton socks or foam shoes, while its Quartz Series is acid-washed instead, bowl first and walls and steps last, then neutralized with soda ash. CL Industries removes the cement film from Krystalkrete with dilute muriatic acid and brushing, with sodium bicarbonate around the bowl so that area isn't over-exposed.
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The first 28 days and long-term care
SGM's start-up for Diamond Brite
SGM's product sheet calls for a sequestering agent on the first fill, brings pH to 7.2 to 7.6 and alkalinity to 80 to 120 ppm, and holds calcium hardness at 125 ppm or more for three days, then 200 to 400 ppm. It says no chlorine on day two, brushing the whole pool twice a day for three days and then daily for two weeks, no wheeled vacuum for 14 days and no automatic cleaner for 28. SGM's online maintenance guide differs: it brushes twice a day on days 1 to 4, once a day on days 5 to 14 and three times a week on days 15 to 28, lists cyanuric acid at 30 to 50 ppm, and adds no metal-sequestering agents unless the installer says so. Leander Pool Resurfacing will talk through starting up new pool plaster with you, and which schedule your finish's maker asks for.
Care after day 28
After the start-up, SGM's warranty terms ask for a saturation index between 0.0 and +0.3, with pH 7.4 to 7.6, alkalinity 80 to 120 ppm, calcium hardness 200 to 400 ppm and cyanuric acid 50 to 80 ppm. It says to brush with nylon, never stainless steel, which is meant for exposed pebble and will mark the finish. Draining should happen only when absolutely necessary and never in the first year, because the finish needs to stay submerged; when a drain can't be avoided, SGM says to refill within 24 hours. Widespread etching, persistent dark mottling, calcium nodules or any sign of the finish separating from the shell are its signs to call an installer.
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(737) 212-9378Quartz finishes in Leander's hard water and heat
Lake Travis fill water
Leander's 2024 water report, the newest that lists hardness, gives 194 ppm hardness, total alkalinity of 156 ppm and pH 8.2. The alkalinity and pH both sit above SGM's start-up ranges of 80 to 120 ppm and 7.2 to 7.6, and the report gives no separate calcium figure, so the fill water is tested before a quartz start-up begins.
Plaster-day temperatures
SGM wants materials and work areas above 50°F and below 100°F for 24 hours before and 72 hours after Diamond Brite goes on. Camp Mabry, Austin's official weather station, averages 28.7 days a year at 100°F or above and about 12 nights at or below freezing, and in 2023 it reached 100°F every day from July 8 to August 21, 45 days in a row. The calendar matters at both ends of the year.
Leander Pool Resurfacing also installs quartz pool finishes in Pflugerville.
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(737) 212-9378Quartz finish cost in the Austin area
In the Austin metro, a quartz finish on a standard residential gunite pool runs roughly $7,000 to $11,000 in 2026. National averages put quartz plastering at $7,000 to $10,000 in 2025, and a 2026 national range runs $7,000 to $15,000 for quartz aggregate. A pool-management company's national 2025 figures price Diamond Brite closer to $6 to $7 per square foot.
Pool size, the finish, custom touches and the repairs found once the pool is drained move the price. None of these is a price from Leander Pool Resurfacing: an exact figure takes a look at the pool, and that estimate is free.
- Quartz finish, gunite pool, Austin metro (2026)
- $7,000–$11,000
- Quartz plastering, national (2025)
- $7,000–$10,000
- Quartz aggregate, national (2026)
- $7,000–$15,000
- Diamond Brite, per sq ft, national (2025)
- $6–$7
Typical Austin-area prices and national averages. Not a quote.
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(737) 212-9378Quartz pool finish questions
How long does quartz pool finish last?
The National Plasterers Council rates quartz a 10 to 15 year surface. SGM says its Diamond Brite is designed to last 8 to 12 years, with many pools going longer when they're maintained consistently. A maker's warranty is a different measure: NPT's standard limited warranty on QuartzScapes runs 10 years and covers materials only, not installation, water chemistry or start-up.
How much is it to replaster a 30000 gallon pool?
Published prices go by pool size or surface area, not gallons, and none of the sources converts one to the other. For quartz, a San Antonio guide's 2026 figures run $10,000 to $13,000 for a large pool over 600 square feet, against $7,000 to $10,000 for a standard pool of 400 to 600 square feet. A firm number needs a measured pool, and Leander Pool Resurfacing gives that estimate free.
Why does a new quartz finish look blotchy?
Some of it is normal. SGM says all pool plasters, colored ones especially, are subject to shade variation, mottling, scale and efflorescence, Diamond Brite included, and that light mottling during the cure usually evens out over the first six months. Hand application also varies color, shade and texture, and shade differs between batches, which is why installers blend them. Persistent streaks, dark blotches or a chalky film, SGM adds, usually point to water chemistry problems during the start-up.
Can a saltwater pool have a quartz finish?
Yes, with a wait. SGM says no salt goes into a new Diamond Brite pool for 28 days, and no automatic cleaner either. After that, its warranty terms list a salt level of 2,500 to 3,500 ppm in salt pools, beside the same water-balance targets as any Diamond Brite pool, and require the water to be tested and documented monthly by a company using a computerized system.
What colors do quartz pool finishes come in?
Plenty: NPT lists 18 for QuartzScapes, and the National Plasterers Council notes that color-coated quartz is often used as an accent, sometimes mixed with natural quartz. SGM's water warning is strongest for the dark colors. It says that well water or water high in metals discolors Diamond Brite, and that hard or high-alkalinity water brings efflorescence and calcium scale, especially in dark colors such as Midnight Blue, Onyx, Tahoe Blue and French Gray.
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