As mentioned in the accompanying text, the historic pool seen here was originally finished with a white, cementitious sealer - very common in the New England area in 1950. When it came time for us to resurface it, we stuck to the spirit of re-stroration that guided the project and selected a similar sort of sealer - in this case a Thoroseal product made by BASF Corp. of Shakopee, Minn. Even though this choice made sense in physical and aesthetic terms, we all saw it as a near-barbaric way to finish the pool as it does not compare favorably with today's surfacing products.
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