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    Help! Newly plastered pool with new tile. Looks terrible!!

    thank you for the link to the PDF. Very informative and helpful. I appreciate your time.
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    Help! Newly plastered pool with new tile. Looks terrible!!

    thank you for the advice and caution. Would it be wrong to try to clean the grout with a pumice stone?
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    Help! Newly plastered pool with new tile. Looks terrible!!

    Thank you for the advice. I'll be careful.
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    Help! Newly plastered pool with new tile. Looks terrible!!

    Thank you for the advice. Today, I tried removing the white stain with a pumice stone, no acid or anything else. It seemed to work, but hard to tell, bc the grout looks black, when its wet and i washed away the stone residue with the pool water. I'll check tmo to see if this really is a...
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    Help! Newly plastered pool with new tile. Looks terrible!!

    Not sure, yet, but I think it is plaster. For all that have taken time to reply, today, I tried cleaning the "white" away with only a pumice stone on a few grout lines. It seemed to work. Tmo morning, I'll check to see if it was more than an illusion. Can anyone tell me if using the pumice...
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    Help! Newly plastered pool with new tile. Looks terrible!!

    There are bricks around the perimeter of the pool that were already in place before the replaster. It may not show in the image, but there is about 1/2 inch of grout above the top row of tile and the brick. Is that what you mean by expansion joint? Or do you mean decoseal? That is another...
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    Help! Newly plastered pool with new tile. Looks terrible!!

    Oh! Thx for the advice. Im trying to clean the grout, which is grey, but turning white...
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    Help! Newly plastered pool with new tile. Looks terrible!!

    A thousand thanks for the reply. So, from your experience, I should be able to get this to look like new pool? Thx. I'll be able to sleep better tonight.
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    Help! Newly plastered pool with new tile. Looks terrible!!

    Not sure where to post this, so am trying here. Pool replastered (8/5/21) with minipebble plaster and new tile with grey grout. Day after pool filled with water, ugly calcium-like stains appeared in the grout in my tile.(See pics) Tile has plaster stains. Can this be fixed? My "new" pool...
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    Help! Newly plastered pool with new tile. Looks terrible!!

    Pool just replastered (8/5/21) with Stonescape minipebble. New tile installed with grey grout. After acid wash, pool was filled. There are plaster stains on the grout and tile. There are white "stains" in the grout between the tiles. It looks like a 20 yr old pool with terrible calcium...