I received a confirmation from Scorpion spray coatings yesterday that there spray on bed liners will bond to expanded polystyrene and be water tight. I might be more expensive but will last a lifetime and will bond directly to the icf. So no vinyl liner or gunite.

Interesting about the Scorpion coating. I wonder what it would look like over time - it's not like you could paint it when it starts looking bad. It will stick to the ICF but what about the concrete bottom of the pool? You mentioned it being expensive - what kind of price are we talking about?

I know if this coating every gets scraped or cut with items being thrown in the back of a pickup, that small area can be resprayed and it reseals it completely. I also now that it bonds to concrete, wood and other materials. I have talked to a gentleman that sprayed it on a concrete floor in hockey arena and skate blades have not cut it when walking on it. It's tough stuff, just have to see how much it is a square foot.

I wonder about the integrity of the joint where the pool bottom meets the sides, with gunite it is not a problem as it is placed as one continous unit.

I am checking out another product, it is for sealing roofs on metal buildings it is called Hy tech insulating paint.

I have purchased the product and applied it to an old pitch and gravel flat roof on our local museum it dried fairly hard and it has sealed the roof so far, this was just applied a week ago and it has rained several times since.

I have noticed that even though it has stayed some what flexible it is also some very tuff stuff, I will be watching this for another week or so and if it continues to work in the application on the roof, I will find out if it will adhere to foam. If that is the case I will be the test dummy and let you know.

you can solve your problem also by heat welding a pvc membrane, your will have joint but , it cost less then polyurea

How about using Giga-Crete as the interior finish? you can do any color, its ballistic rated and can be sprayed on and finished with any design?
I'm an ICF builder and do pools but just starting with my first ICF pool anyone used the giga crete?

Jay

I am contemplating building my first ICF pool and have researched using Giga-Crete and similar products. PermCrete makes several products that I think would work well. I was going to pour the bottom, stack the ICF walls, pour walls, then add a rounded foam band around the wall/bottom joint, then spray/trowel in a PermaCrete coating. Once that is done, I am going to pour a cap over the wall and surround area with stamped/colored concrete.

Has anyone attempted an ICF pool using this method before?

Check out insulated pool kits as well. They make various shaped eps pool panels.

With all due respect Slenzen would you piss off and stop continually trying to sell your crap on here we are trying to find solutions and you are non stop with your sales shit.

We just built a small (14'x14') pool out of ICF. We formed the slab exterior, and hung the ICF forms to the interior, and poured it monolithic. We then stripped the interior foam, and coated the entire interior with a pebble tech finish. The total pool depth is 5', with interior cast in place steps and a swim up bar. We used 6" core ICF for the walls

Greg Fasano
ICON Structures LLC
239-438-2670

Posted By Jay23 on 01 Apr 2011 10:31 AM
With all due respect Slenzen would you piss off and stop continually trying to sell your crap on here we are trying to find solutions and you are non stop with your sales shit.

Jay provide any proof I have anything to do with any company.  If not, screw you.

I am a home enthusiast planning on building a passive modern minimalist home with an infinity pool on a lake property I have.  I've always wondered why insulated pools aren't more common.  I have been on the forums for quite some time mostly learning but adding a bit to the discussion on various products I come across.

ICFConstruction has been to my property.

If you are a real man then apologies are in order.

With all due respect Slezen I went back and looked at your comments on all forums and with 350 Responses you said the same thing as in copy and pasted "Check out blah blah they make blah blah" over 320 times got to wonder right?

ground has a constant temp of 55 degrees all year long, well I want my pool at 80

The ground is only 55F if you don't have a 80F pool sitting in it. At that point, the ground starts warming up and acts as insulation (about R1 per foot). The savings from using foam are there, but not as much as one would calculate if they thought the ground would stay at 55F.

Well our first ICF pool was a great success go to YouTube and search HamptonsICF and there are some videos on there.
We did not strip inside of pool and used a product from base coat with mesh and rolled on 1.4" thick coating over with sea glass from Sider Oxydro would like to try the pebble tech finish over base coat but very expensive material.

What's the cost of the pebble tech material per sqft installed??

I wonder if one can do a partial in ground and then above ground pond out of ICF? I don't see why not.

We recently built an ICF pool that was half underground and half above ground. Due to slope of land, we made half of the pool bar height so they could put barstools on the outside. We even plumbed in a beer tap with lines running to the pump area for the keg. We used 8 inch Logix Platinum series. One in-ground wall was a radius.

Posted By LoneStar ICF on 04 Jul 2012 08:45 PM
We recently built an ICF pool that was half underground and half above ground. Due to slope of land, we made half of the pool bar height so they could put barstools on the outside. We even plumbed in a beer tap with lines running to the pump area for the keg. We used 8 inch Logix Platinum series. One in-ground wall was a radius.

If you got any pics, please post them or the link!

THANKS!