Fiberglass Pool Repair and Resurfacing in Hickory Creek, Texas
Flower Mound Pool Resurfacing repairs and resurfaces fiberglass pools in Hickory Creek, Texas, from patching hairline gelcoat cracks and opening blisters to recoating a faded, chalky shell.
Hickory Creek straddles Interstate 35E beside Lewisville Lake, with Town Hall at 1075 Ronald Reagan Avenue, Arrowhead Park at the northeast end of the I-35E bridge and Sycamore Bend Park at the south end of Sycamore Bend Road. Request a free estimate around the clock; we'll look at what the surface shows, a repair or a full refinish, and the checks before any water comes out.
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Hickory Creek homes since 2000
Hickory Creek has 2,036 housing units in the U.S. Census Bureau's 2020–2024 survey estimates (margin of error 242). Of those, 729 (35.8%) were built between 2010 and 2019 and 616 (30.3%) between 2000 and 2009, with 193 since 2020, 109 from the 1990s, 126 from the 1980s and 263 from before 1980; the median home dates from 2008, give or take four years. Detached single-family houses make up 1,679 of the units, or 82.5%, alongside 88 mobile homes and 79 units in buildings of five or more. Owners live in 1,543 of the 1,936 occupied homes, the median owner-occupied home is valued at $507,200, and the median household income is $148,852. The town counted 4,718 residents in the 2020 Census; the Bureau's estimate for July 1, 2025 is 6,875.
A 1960s town named for its creek
The Handbook of Texas places Hickory Creek west of Interstate 35E, about eight miles southeast of Denton. Named for the nearby creek, it developed in the 1960s and had incorporated by 1969; it counted 218 residents in 1970, 1,422 in 1980 and 2,078 in 2000, and it has a mayor and council and its own police department.
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(469) 526-3886Gelcoat repairs and refinishing
When gelcoat wears
The inside surface of a fiberglass pool is gelcoat, a colored resin sprayed onto the shell when it is made; Latham's care manual puts it at seven to eight times the thickness of a normal coat of paint. In the view of River Pools, a fiberglass pool maker, resurfacing is rarely needed at all, and refinishing usually waits until a pool is 20 or 30 years old, while ecoFINISH, which sells a refinishing coating, says most start showing wear after 10 to 15 years of regular use. Tallman Pools, another maker, ties discoloration, chalking, fading, etching and scale to incorrect water chemistry.
Cracks and blisters
Spider cracks are hairline cracks in the gelcoat that are typically cosmetic. River Pools traces them mostly to improper installation, an uneven base or debris beneath the shell, and Barrier Reef Pools says they most often start in transport; Latham calls them not uncommon and has repair kits through its dealers. Blisters are an osmosis problem: water passes through the gelcoat, meets contaminants and forms molecules too large to leave, and the outward push lifts the gelcoat off the laminate. Barrier Reef links that to a surface worn down by chemical imbalance; River Pools treats such blisters as a cosmetic problem, not a structural one. Gougeon Brothers, whose guide covers gelcoat blisters on fiberglass boats, warns that blister fluid can be under as much as 200 psi and calls thorough drying the most crucial step of the repair.
Stains, scale and recoating
Tallman Pools reads a stain by color and treats metal stains with ascorbic acid at about one pound per 10,000 gallons, after chlorine is taken to 0.0 ppm and pH to 7.2. It tells calcium carbonate scale, which foams under a drop of muriatic acid, from calcium silicate, which doesn't and is a job for a fiberglass technician. When the whole surface is worn, River Pools' standard recommendation is a polyethylene powder coating sprayed over epoxy and set with heat, which lets refilling start the same day; Insl-x, Ramuc and Olympic each specify an epoxy pool paint for fiberglass instead, and River Pools keeps new gelcoat to smaller repairs.
Flower Mound Pool Resurfacing will inspect the gelcoat before suggesting a repair or a refinish.
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(469) 526-3886Lake Cities water and fiberglass care
Water in Hickory Creek comes from the Lake Cities Municipal Utility Authority, which the State of Texas created in 1964 to serve Lake Dallas, Shady Shores and Hickory Creek. It is a member of the Upper Trinity Regional Water District, buys treated water from it under a contract for 3.8 million gallons a day, and tops that up with three wells inside its boundaries during summer peaks.
Test the fill water before balancing it, because fiberglass makers don't agree on calcium. Latham's warranty asks for calcium hardness between 250 and 350 ppm; River Pools wants it under 120 ppm with pH at 7.2 to 7.4 and calls calcium the root cause of most fiberglass discoloration; Tallman Pools keeps calcium at 80 to 120 ppm and warns that scale can form once pH passes 7.4 with calcium over 120. River Pools and Tallman both rule out calcium hypochlorite, and Tallman uses only liquid chlorine or a non-chlorine oxidizer to shock, so match the water to your own pool maker's range.
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(469) 526-3886Fences, permits and fees in Hickory Creek
The Town's permitting department reviews, permits and inspects construction under its ordinances and adopted codes, the 2021 International Building Codes and the 2023 National Electrical Code. Its pages don't say whether a pool repair or a resurfacing needs a permit, so ask the department before work starts. Its fee schedule, adopted June 24, 2024, sets flat fees of $850 for an in-ground pool permit and $200 each for a spa or an above-ground pool, and work done without a required permit costs twice the underlying fee.
The pool fence ordinance
Section 3.06.005(i) of the Code of Ordinances requires every pool and spa in town, private or public, to be fenced or enclosed all the way around, four feet high or more, with gates that close and latch by themselves and no gaps larger than 4 inches. The same section bars putting water in any swimming pool until a fence meeting those specifications is in place, which is worth remembering before a refill.
What a pool permit asks for
For a pool permit, the Town wants a digital set of plans with a plot plan stamped by the utility companies, the subdivision's standard setback lines and a tree inventory plan. Its inspections run through setback, belly steel and p-trap, underground electrical and gas, deck steel and a final.
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(469) 526-3886The creek, the lake and the ground
The creek the town is named for runs fourteen miles southeast across Denton County to Lewisville Lake, through a flat to terraced landscape of calcareous, clayey and loamy soils over limestone, and Alton, the county's second seat, was founded on its banks in 1851. Inside the town's Census boundary the soil survey's four largest units, the Birome-Rayex-Aubrey complex on about 23.7% of the mapped land, Callisburg fine sandy loam on about 20.7% and 9.6% at two slope ranges, and Birome fine sandy loam on about 10.1%, all reach 4.5 percent, inside the moderate band (3 to 6 percent) of the 1980 county survey.
The Town calls Hickory Creek one of the communities that circle Lewisville Lake and offers access to seven U.S. Army Corps of Engineers parks on its shores; Arrowhead, Harbor Lane, Sycamore Bend and Point Vista parks are leased and run locally. Arrowhead Park, off I-35E at exit 457a, has boat ramps, a courtesy dock, a pavilion and a playground, Harbor Lane Park is reached through the Harbor Grove subdivision south of Swisher Road (FM 2181), and Tanglewood Park, at 31 Robins Nest in Lakewood Gardens off east Main Street, is the only park the Town owns. To the southwest is Highland Village, covered on our page about quartz pool finishes in Highland Village.
Fiberglass work beside paint, spas and coping
Flower Mound Pool Resurfacing also handles pool painting, spa resurfacing, pool crack repair, and coping and waterline tile work. National figures for 2026 put most U.S. fiberglass resurfacing at $5,000 to $15,000, and a 2025 national figure for gel coat work on dings, scratches and cracks is $300 to $400; neither is our price. Lake Dallas, to the north-northeast, shares the Lake Cities water utility, and our page on pool painting in Lake Dallas covers that city.
How a fiberglass repair runs
Check the warranty terms
Latham voids its warranty when a pool is drained other than by a dealer, River Pools says only authorized fiberglass professionals should drain one, and Tallman Pools wants its written authorization first.
Ask the Town
The permitting department says whether the work needs a permit; work done without a required one costs twice the fee.
Check groundwater and brace
Before the water comes down, the groundwater inspection port is checked and pumped slowly if needed, and the pool is braced, commonly with three braces across it, 18 to 24 inches down from the top of the walls, in dry weather.
Repair or recoat
Cracks and gouges are roughened, overfilled with catalyzed gelcoat putty and sanded flat once cured; blisters are opened, dug out and dried; a worn shell gets an epoxy base and a heat-set coating, or an epoxy pool paint.
Close the fence and refill
The fence goes back up before any water does, under the Town’s ordinance, and the floor is watched so it doesn’t lift.
Balance to the maker’s range
The fill water is tested and set to the pool maker’s calcium and pH range, and only soft nylon brushes go on the gelcoat.
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(469) 526-3886Plan a fiberglass pool repair in Hickory Creek
Flower Mound Pool Resurfacing answers calls and estimate requests 24/7. Tell us the pool’s maker if you know it, how old it is, and what the gelcoat shows.