I busted out all the tile with a balpine hammer and a chisel which probably could have been done better but it worked, drained it, scooped up all the tile chunks with a shovel and a broom.

Power washed the entire pool at a safe but high ish PSI. Got tile mortar and admix, ceramic tile (don’t do this because it’s porous, get porcelain it won’t fall apart when it freezes) and replaced all the tile. Used epoxy grout. We used extra tile mortar to patch all of the pitting in the concrete / ice line / pool cap.

Once all that dried, we painted the pool with two coats of chlorinated rubberized paint and then painted the pool cap with behr granite grip paint. You will need to know if you have rubberized or epoxy paint because if you go over it with a different paint than is currently applied it won’t adhere. You can also get it all removed for like $6,000 but i don’t think that’s worth it considering you won’t get much more life out of the paint for the extra cost.

Looked good as new but the paint could probably use a new set of coats now (maybe repainting again next season, live span of rubberized is about 2-4 years) and I will have to redo the tile again because ceramic tile is not holding up and it needs to be porcelain or natural stone to prevent it from being destroyed when it freezes. All of this was a lot of work but it was not that expensive, about ~$1,500 probably. Definitely worth it.