Lakewood’s communitywide spring garage sale returns Saturday, May 3. This is the date for Lakewood residents to hold their own garage sales at their homes, from 8 a.m. to noon.

If you’re planning to have a garage sale at your house, sign up on this Google form. You don’t need to give your name. The HOA will provide a list of addresses where sales are held as the date nears.

The HOA board has developed a regular schedule for future spring and fall sales: the fourth Saturday in April for the spring sale and the first weekend in October for fall.

The Lakewood pool project is moving ahead with installation this week of new blue tile at the pool edge. All of the existing tile has been removed, and workers are now busy installing its colorful replacements. The pool is closed while the work continues.

Work is underway on the long-awaited renovation of the Lakewood swimming pool and children’s pool.

The HOA has contracted with Solid Group of Hutto at a cost of $74,834 to complete the work by about the start of summer, weather permitting. Work began March 29 with removal of plaster in the children’s pool. The pools closed at that time.

The project includes:

• Repair of broken coping (the decorative edge where we sit with our feet in the water), using pieces salvaged on site
• Demolition of plaster waterline tile, depth marking tiles at the waterline, swim lane tiles, kick pad tiles and step edge tiles
• Replacement of plaster, tile, wall steps, rope anchors and drain covers
• Replacement of sand filter media (used to filter out debris) with modified glass media for the four filters of the main pool
• Replacement of filter with equivalent-sized glass media filter for the children’s pool
• Refilling of both pools with water from Lakewood’s source; provide chemicals, balance water chemistry, maintain water chemistry and brush plaster as required for 21 days after refilling the pools
• Instruction to maintain the pools properly

Colors of the new tile are shown below. The first two images below show tile samples for (at left) the swim lanes and kick pads and (at right) the border under the coping. The photo at bottom shows the sample for the plaster.

The Solid Group proposal was one of three received and reviewed by the HOA Board. A separate contract was awarded to Empire Fence Co. of Leander to replace the ornamental iron fencing around the children’s pool at a cost of $3,520