Pool Crack Repair in The Colony, Texas
Flower Mound Pool Resurfacing offers pool crack repair in The Colony, Texas, a city where the Census Bureau's 2020–2024 survey estimates date about 38.0% of the 19,388 housing units to before 1990.
The Colony lies on Lewisville Lake near the junction of State Highway 121 and FM 423, with the 65 acres of Stewart Creek Park and the 3.32-mile Shoreline Trail along the water, and The Athletic Club and the Turner Soccer Complex among its City facilities. Get in touch for a free estimate at any time, and we'll trace where each crack runs, whether it is still moving and whether the pool is losing water.
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Homes built since the first families of 1974
The survey dates 4,120 of the city's housing units before 1980 and 3,246 to the 1980s, so 7,366 predate 1990. The 1990s added only 1,718 units, about 8.9%, before building surged again, with 4,622 units in 2000–2009 and 5,682 since 2010; the 2010s were the busiest decade, at 5,017. The median unit dates from 2001, give or take two years.
About 67.7% of the units, 13,133, are single-family detached houses; 4,500 sit in buildings of five or more units, 2,277 of them in buildings of 50 or more, and 55 are mobile homes. Owners live in 11,113 of the 18,591 occupied homes, about 59.8%. Owner-occupied homes carry a median value of $383,900, and the median household income is $114,511. The 2020 Census counted 44,534 residents in 18,814 housing units, and the estimate for July 1, 2025 is 46,196 residents.
Flower Mound Pool Resurfacing repairs cracked pool shells and finishes throughout The Colony.
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(469) 526-3886Branyon clay under most of the city
Soil is the strongest local fact for this work. The USDA soil survey maps 24 units on land inside The Colony, and Branyon clay heads the list twice: on 0 to 1 percent slopes it covers about 38.9% of the mapped land, and on 1 to 3 percent slopes another 22.3%, with Ferris-Heiden clay on steeper ground at 14.5%. Grouped by main soil, Branyon accounts for about 61.2%, Ferris for 14.7% and Heiden for 10.9%, and mapped water covers about 16.7% of the area inside the boundary.
Branyon's highest linear extensibility, a gauge of shrink and swell, is 13 percent; on the 1980 Denton County survey's scale, high begins above 6 percent and the occasionally used very high class above 9. NRCS rates the largest Branyon unit Very limited for houses without basements and for houses on concrete slabs, both because of shrink-swell, and about 94.8% of The Colony's mapped land falls in units that carry that rating on their main soil. Branyon is moderately well drained, and its risk of corroding uncoated concrete is rated Moderate.
What a soil rating can tell a pool owner
The 1980 survey cautions that shrinking and swelling at moderate to very high ratings can harm buildings and roads, and that such ground often calls for special design. A rating describes the soil across an area rather than one backyard, so the cause of any single crack still has to be found at that pool. The nearest pool engineering advice we have was written for Houston's clays, where a geotechnical engineer's 2007 guidelines warn that relieving water pressure under an emptied pool by punching holes through its floor can cause a leak and, on expansive soil, uplift.
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(469) 526-3886Four questions a pool crack raises
Is it in the finish or the shell?
The National Plasterers Council reserves the term shrinkage crack for a crack that opens while a finish goes on or within a day after it sets, which is a different matter from a break in the structure. The American Shotcrete Association treats a gunite or shotcrete shell as concrete that happens to be sprayed into place, so the usual repairs for cracked concrete apply to it.
Has the shell moved?
The Association's guidance splits the work by cause. Overlooked holes, along with some shrinkage, autogenous and plastic cracks, can usually be plugged or patched, while a crack from structural movement or stress inside the shell needs its cause and its remedy worked out first. Where spider-web cracking leaves a shell's strength in question, it wants a qualified local engineering firm to drill cores and have them tested to ASTM C42/C42M or C1604/C1604M.
Is it wet or dry?
A crack that leaks changes the material. Prime Resins, a resin maker, sorts leaks into weeping hairline cracks, which need a thin resin that can work its way in, and gushing ones, which need a fast reaction or set. As a maker of both kinds, it also argues that water-seeking hydrophilic resins soak into the tight micro-cracks of wet concrete and bond there, while water-repelling hydrophobic resins won't penetrate those areas and can fail a few months after the job.
Is steel showing?
Rust bleeding through the finish can mean the steel was shot under too thin a layer of concrete. An article in the Association's magazine explains that thin cover lets water reach the reinforcing bars and start corrosion that can spall the concrete away, and the Association holds the shotcrete contractor responsible for keeping proper cover over the steel.
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(469) 526-3886Pool permits, engineers and contractor registration in The Colony
The City's permit list calls for a permit before an in-ground pool, or an above-ground pool more than 24 inches deep, is built or installed. It doesn't mention repairing a crack in an existing pool, so ask Building Inspections whether your repair needs a permit before the shell is cut open.
For a new residential pool, the City wants plans signed and sealed, with a dated letter from a Texas-licensed professional engineer, and a site plan showing grades, at least 3 feet between the property line and the excavation, the pool, deck and equipment pad, the drainage and the construction type. Windows or doors within 5 feet of the water need safety glazing, a house-pool protection device certificate is required, the application fee is $50 and non-refundable, and a pool or spa plan review costs $50 or 25% of the building permit fee, whichever is greater. Contractors must register with the City, which has adopted the 2021 International Residential Code with local amendments under Ordinance 2024-2551.
Those engineering rules are for new pools. For a structural crack in an existing shell, the American Shotcrete Association wants an engineer or an injection specialist experienced with shotcrete to look at the cracking before a repair is picked, and it notes that thickening a cracked wall changes the pool engineer's design, because the added shotcrete needs more reinforcing steel.
Wells, Dallas water and the refill
The City pumps from five wells, four in the Trinity Sands aquifer and one in the Paluxy, producing up to 9 million gallons a day, and buys up to 7 million gallons a day of treated surface water from Dallas Water Utilities; its latest water quality report covers 2025. We found no City drought rule on filling pools, so ask the City about its current stage before a repaired pool is refilled.
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(469) 526-3886Bridges Settlement, the Hedgcoxe War and Eastvale
The Colony takes its name from the Peters colony, and the Handbook of Texas places it on the site of the Hedgcoxe War of 1852, when armed settlers raided and burned the office of the Texas Emigration and Land Company. Older still is Bridges Settlement, settled in 1843 and the first settlement in Denton County; members of the Bridges family lie in Bridges Cemetery, on the family's land grant in the east of today's city. Stewarts Creek, Rector and Camey, also known as Camey Spur, were historic communities inside its limits as well.
In 1973 the Dallas developer Fox and Jacobs bought land on the eastern shore of Lewisville Lake, about 2,500 acres by the City's account and some 3,000 by the Handbook's, and formed a municipal utility district to supply water; the first families moved in during October 1974. Fox and Jacobs built and donated a fire station in 1975, and by January 1977, with more than 3,500 residents, the community voted to incorporate, after a homeowners' association had negotiated the land's release from Frisco's extraterritorial jurisdiction. Camey Elementary opened that year, a 1979 charter made The Colony a home-rule city with a council-manager government and a seven-member council, and the public library followed in 1982. Eastvale, a lakeside community begun in the early 1960s that grew to about 600 people, consolidated with the city in 1987, and the population reached 22,113 in 1990 and 26,531 in 2000.
Crack repair beside plaster, leak and skimmer work
Cracks rarely travel alone. Flower Mound Pool Resurfacing also takes on plaster repair, leak and skimmer repair, replastering, and pebble or quartz finishes once a shell is sound. For the towns next door, see cool deck repair in Hebron and commercial pool resurfacing in Lewisville.
Typical Dallas–Fort Worth figures for 2026 set aside $1,000 to $5,000 or more for prep when the concrete beneath the tile line has cracked, the deck has failed or earlier work must be removed first, and national figures for 2026 price crack repairs made during a resurfacing at about $75 per linear foot. Those are published figures, not our prices; the length of the crack and whether steel is exposed set the real one.
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(469) 526-3886Steps in a crack repair
Map every crack
Each crack is traced and measured, and cracks in the finish are sorted from those that reach the shell.
Watch for movement and water loss
A crack that widens, weeps or gushes calls for a different material from one that has stopped.
Ask Building Inspections
The City’s permit list speaks of new pools; ask whether your repair needs a permit before the shell is opened.
Bring in an engineer where the shell moved
The American Shotcrete Association wants movement cracks investigated, and doubtful shells cored and tested, before a repair is chosen.
Inject, plug or patch
Moving or submerged cracks take a flexible filler such as an injectable polyurethane grout, and small holes are hand-patched with nonshrink hydraulic cement rated for 4,000 psi or more at 28 days.
Ready the surface for the new finish
Before new shotcrete goes over old, the Association wants the old surface cleaned, roughened to a profile of about 1/16 inch or deeper, and left damp but not wet; a hydraulic-cement patch is roughened so the plaster grips it.
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(469) 526-3886Pool crack questions from The Colony
Can a crack in a pool be repaired if the ground keeps moving?
Most can, once the cause is known. A crack in the finish or a small hole can often be patched, while a crack that moved with the ground is investigated first, and on ground with as much Branyon clay as The Colony's, that check comes before any filler goes in. Flower Mound Pool Resurfacing will look at where the crack runs and whether it is still opening.
Can a pool crack be repaired underwater, without draining?
Small ones, yes. SGM sells Dynamite Pool Patch, a fast-setting specialty cement, for patching cracks and holes without draining, and its plaster manual asks for any water seeping through the shell under pressure to be stopped with hydraulic cement before a new finish is applied. A structural crack still needs its cause found before it is patched.
Plan a pool crack repair in The Colony
Reach Flower Mound Pool Resurfacing by phone or through the form, day or night. Say where the crack is, roughly how long it runs, and whether the pool seems to be losing water.