Pebble Pool Finishes in Colleyville, Texas
Flower Mound Pool Resurfacing installs pebble pool finishes in Colleyville, Texas: natural stone blended with cement and pigment, sprayed onto the prepared shell, hand-troweled and then washed back so the pebbles stand at the surface.
Colleyville grew up between Big Bear and Little Bear creeks in northeast Tarrant County, with State Highway 26, the Grapevine Highway, running through its center and City Hall at 100 Main Street. Request a free estimate when it's convenient; we'll go over pebble size and color, the old surface, and how the new finish is started up once the pool is full.
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Colleyville home values and the 1990s housing peak
The U.S. Census Bureau's 2020–2024 survey estimates value the median owner-occupied home in Colleyville at $784,900 (margin of error $42,517) and put the median household income at $218,328 (margin $15,954), in 2024 dollars. Of 9,403 housing units, the 1990s are the largest decade, with 2,743 (about 29.2%); 2,012 (21.4%) date from the 1980s, 1,558 (16.6%) from the 2000s and 1,627 (17.3%) from 2010 or later, 135 of them since 2020, while 1,463 (15.6%) predate 1980. The survey's median year built is 1994, plus or minus two years.
Detached single-family houses make up 8,863 units, about 94.3%; only 80 are in buildings of five or more units, none in buildings of 50 or more, and 12 are mobile homes. Owners live in 8,773 of 9,072 occupied homes, about 96.7%. The 2020 Census counted 9,395 housing units, 9,096 of them occupied, and 26,057 residents, and the Bureau's July 1, 2025 estimate is 25,727. The Handbook of Texas records that in the early 1980s the town divided over development, one side wanting only expensive single-family homes on large lots and the other smaller lots and multifamily housing.
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(469) 526-3886Pebble blends and how they are applied
Stones, cement and strength
Pebble finishes differ by maker in their stone and their binder. Pebble Technology International gathers tumbled stone from sources as far apart as New Zealand and Chile, sizing every stone so the texture is uniform, and its lab figures for PebbleTec show compressive strength of 8,226 psi at 7 days, rising to 9,913 at 28 and 10,134 at 90, with a wet dynamic coefficient of friction of 0.63. NPT's StoneScapes combines quartz pebble and specialty aggregates with iron oxide pigments in white portland cement; the Lobo modifier NPT wants in every batch adds pozzolan, polymer and water-repelling chemistry, which it credits with less mottling and plaster dust and with 9,000 to 10,000 psi at 28 days. Wet Edge Technologies credits water rounding its stones over millennia for a smooth surface, and its Signature Matrix mixes small and medium pebbles so they pack tighter and show less cement.
Thickness and troweling
Each maker sets its own thickness. NPT asks for an even 3/8 to 1/2 inch, since a thin coat dries too fast and a thick one sets slowly and can trap moisture that grays the finish; CL Industries puts its CrystalStones on at about 1/2 to 3/4 inch; and SGM's River Rok comes in 80-pound bags that cover about 18 to 22 square feet at a half inch. NPT has the finish hard-troweled at least three times, which drives the larger stones down and the smaller ones up, and fills spike holes with aggregate and cement rather than cream. Pebble Technology International caps calcium chloride at 2% of the cement weight, warning that it can raise plaster dust, darken light colors and blotch dark ones.
Exposing the stone
Exposure methods vary too. SGM approves only water washing with brushes for River Rok, with a light acid wash allowed the same day or early the next, while CL Industries brushes CrystalStones gently under a controlled flow of water before a diluted muriatic acid rinse. Pebble Technology International describes a break-in of about 1 to 3 days while the applicator finishes the surface, and says the product gains most of its durability in the first 28 days; Wet Edge, which also counts 28 days to a mostly cured finish, asks owners to register it within 60 days and keep start-up and monthly water records.
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(469) 526-3886City water and a pebble start-up
The City of Colleyville buys its water from the Trinity River Authority's Tarrant County Water Project, which draws mainly on Lake Arlington, according to the City's water quality report for January 1 to December 31, 2025. That report lists calcium at 38.0 ppm and magnesium at 3.68 ppm from samples taken February 27, 2025, but prints no total hardness figure, so the fill water's calcium hardness is a number to test for before a new finish is started up. The National Plasterers Council warns that soft fill water, low in calcium hardness, pulls calcium out of the surface of a new finish, causing anything from severe discoloration to a weaker cement binder.
Pebble Technology International says that if the water isn't watched closely during start-up, plaster dust sticks to the new surface and leaves stains, blotchy color or roughness. Its brushing advice comes in two versions: its care page asks for brushing three times a day for the first three days and twice a day for the next ten, while its planning guide asks for three times a day for the first 7 days and twice a day for the following 3 weeks. The care page names a nylon brush, worked toward the main drain. Light from pool lights or other sources shining across the surface rather than onto it exaggerates small waves and imperfections, which the maker doesn't count as defects, and it follows the Council in judging a pool in daylight.
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(469) 526-3886Pool guidelines and permits in Colleyville
Since April 1, 2025, Colleyville has worked under the 2024 International Codes, the 2023 National Electrical Code and the 2024 International Fire Code, adopted by Ordinance O-25-2317. Its 2025 pool guidelines require pool contractors to register with the City and apply online, and the City aims to finish plan reviews within seven working days. The guidelines don't say whether a new interior finish on an existing pool needs a permit, so ask Building Inspections before the old surface comes off.
What the guidelines ask for
A pool permit needs an application naming registered electrical and plumbing contractors, a site plan drawn on a survey with setbacks, easements and construction access, a pool plan stamped by the electric utility, and a drainage plan that covers lot grading and deck, area and roof drains. An impervious-coverage worksheet adds up roofs, patios, driveways, walks and other hard surfaces and divides them by the lot area; homes on septic show their lateral lines or aerobic systems with the Tarrant County Health Department's or TCEQ's setbacks; and protected trees are shown on the plans, with no fill, stored materials or parked vehicles under them, worth keeping in mind wherever a crew sets up.
Setbacks, decks and barriers
Outdoor pools, spas and hot tubs sit at least 5 feet from every property line, outside the required front yard and no farther forward than the front of the house. Decks and equipment stay out of drainage and utility easements, and any decking, stonework or equipment less than 5 feet from a side or rear line needs a drainage plan designed by an engineer. The City's 2025 barrier certification calls for a barrier at least 48 inches high around residential pools, spas and hot tubs, measured on the side away from the water.
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(469) 526-3886Bransford, Dr. Colley and the Grapevine Highway
Settlement in the area began in the 1850s, the City's history says, and Pleasant Run Baptist Church, organized in 1877, was the first church inside today's limits. French-born Anthelm Bidault planted orchards and vineyards near the Pleasant Run community from 1897. When the Cotton Belt railway came through the hamlet of Red Rock in 1888, Felix G. Bransford's store and post office moved there, Red Rock became Bransford, and it grew into the area's largest community. Dr. Lilburn Howard Colley, a Missouri native and Union Army veteran who came to Texas in 1880, practiced medicine around Bransford for 40 years, and his name attached to a community that formed around a store W.G. Couch opened on Glade Road in 1914.
Colleyville incorporated on January 10, 1956. The Handbook counts 1,491 residents in 1964, 12,724 in 1990 and 19,636 in 2000, and the City lists 12 parks and greenbelts along with full-service recreational facilities. Its limits now meet Grapevine and Euless on the east, Bedford and Hurst on the south, Southlake on the north, and Keller and North Richland Hills on the west; our page on tanning ledges and pool steps in Keller covers that neighbor.
Pebble work beside quartz, tile and replastering
A new pebble interior is often planned with other work. Flower Mound Pool Resurfacing also handles quartz pool finishes, pool replastering, pool tile repair and replacement, and glass tile finishes. A Dallas–Fort Worth builder's 2026 guide puts pebble and quartz interiors at $12,000 to $18,000 for mid-range pools, and Dallas figures for 2026 price pebbles at $10 a square foot. These are published figures, not our prices; a real one needs the pool measured.
A pebble finish from start to fill
Ask Building Inspections
The 2025 guidelines don’t say whether a refinish needs a permit, so the City is asked first, and equipment and materials stay out from under protected trees.
Prepare the edges
Where the finish butts against tile or stone, Pebble Technology International cuts it back by half an inch or more so it keys in, and allows no ramped edges.
Apply in two coats
A scratch coat is troweled hard for a mechanical bond, and the second goes on once the first is stiff enough to hold it, without interruption.
Expose and detail
The stone is brought up by washing, and the next day loose pebbles are scraped off and cement film is cleared with an acid solution.
Fill without stopping
The hose goes in the deepest area without resting on the finish, and water is never allowed to run down from the shallow end and mark it.
Start up and brush
The water is tested and balanced through the first 28 days, with the maker’s brushing schedule followed.
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(469) 526-3886Pebble pool finishes: common questions
What is the average cost to pebble tec a pool?
In national figures from 2025, Pebble Tec resurfacing costs $10 to $20 per square foot of pool: about $2,000 to $8,000 for a small pool of 200 to 400 square feet, and $4,000 to $16,000 for the typical pool of 400 to 800. Around Dallas–Fort Worth, typical 2026 figures run $8,000 to $15,000 or more for Pebble Tec, Pebble Sheen and similar pebble finishes.
How much does it cost to re-pebblecrete a pool?
None of the published cost figures we draw on uses that name. For redoing a pool in pebble generally, national figures from 2025 put pebble resurfacing at $7,000 to $15,000 on average, and Dallas figures from the same year put pebble or quartz aggregate finishes at $7,000 to $12,000, depending on the material.
What is the smoothest pool finish available?
Within pebble, the smoothest choices use the smallest stones. Pebble Technology International's PebbleFina takes its tiniest natural pebbles and is the line it calls its smoothest aggregate, and Micro is the smoothest of the three StoneScapes sizes NPT offers. Pebble Technology International groups PebbleFina with PebbleBreeze, a buff-polished blend it names as its smoothest finish of all, as underexposed surfaces that take nylon brushes only, and it keeps both evenly dry between application and the fill. Polished marble and glass finishes, the other route to a very smooth pool, are covered on our page about polished pool finishes in Southlake, the city on Colleyville's northern edge.
Plan a pebble pool finish in Colleyville
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