Hi Treed;

Judgements about value are purely personal: pools are not a good real estate "investment". If you are doing the repairs for resale, cynically I'd probably have to say the cheapest work possible that produces a short term improvement in appearance is what is 'best'. If you are doing it for yourself, then that's a different matter.

Regarding paints, I'd try to use Kelley's. I think other products out there *might* be OK, but I don't know that, and I do know that I've seen some really terrible paint jobs done with other paint. One large (300,000 gallons) pool, painted with an acrylic containing product essentially chalked away during its first season -- white clouds appeared around swimmers feet as they walked, all season long.

Doheny's has had the best consumer prices in the past: http://www.doheny.com/poolsupplies/O...ase-Paint.html
Looks like they still may.

Ben