Had the entire pool redone this year.
It was replastered with new blue quartz. The pool is around 30 years old. I'm not sure if it was ever replastered. Seemed like the old owners were "painting" the pool every few years.
It's a little over 30 days since the replaster and several orange marks have popped up.
A picture is attached. There are around 8 of these marks, mostly on the steps to enter the pool and the pool's spa.
My pool guy and his people have stayed on top of the pool to ensure the water levels were right while the new blue quartz plaster is still curing. Pool was brushed several times a day for over 2 weeks.
The marks are pretty small, but I'm anal and zone in on them.
I've tried rubbing with a chlorine tab, wet/dry sand paper, but nothing really gets it to go away. I wasn't rubbing as hard as I could have, fearing the plaster is only 30 days old and I might do more harm than good.
The problem, I think.... the marks are usually on minor imperfection areas, so not sure the sand paper or chlorine tab is actually getting in there, since the area may not be level to the surface around it... if that makes sense.
I was able to get a corner of my pinky's fingernail in one of the imperfect spot areas and without question was able to pick out some organic matter, which I think was a decaying leaf and the area went from dark orange to light orange after I did that.
My pool guy thinks all of the sports are staining from leaves and soil that blew in. I do have plenty of landscaping near these areas - and during the recent run of wind storms in Las Vegas - a decent amount of dirt, soil and leaves got in the pool.
It took me days of using the pool vacuum to get the dirt/soil out - and there was a decent amount of dirt/soil on those areas affected. I would brush it off, but then hours later the water would push some of it back to those areas. (couldn't use pool rover for 30 days, but rover cant get steps or spa regardless). Eventually I broke out the vac and was using that twice a day for a few days until I saw no more soil/dirt.
Sent photos to replaster company, they are coming next week to take a look, but based on the images they said "that's not rust, we'll have to see what that is, maybe we can sand it down."
It was replastered with new blue quartz. The pool is around 30 years old. I'm not sure if it was ever replastered. Seemed like the old owners were "painting" the pool every few years.
It's a little over 30 days since the replaster and several orange marks have popped up.
A picture is attached. There are around 8 of these marks, mostly on the steps to enter the pool and the pool's spa.
My pool guy and his people have stayed on top of the pool to ensure the water levels were right while the new blue quartz plaster is still curing. Pool was brushed several times a day for over 2 weeks.
The marks are pretty small, but I'm anal and zone in on them.
I've tried rubbing with a chlorine tab, wet/dry sand paper, but nothing really gets it to go away. I wasn't rubbing as hard as I could have, fearing the plaster is only 30 days old and I might do more harm than good.
The problem, I think.... the marks are usually on minor imperfection areas, so not sure the sand paper or chlorine tab is actually getting in there, since the area may not be level to the surface around it... if that makes sense.
I was able to get a corner of my pinky's fingernail in one of the imperfect spot areas and without question was able to pick out some organic matter, which I think was a decaying leaf and the area went from dark orange to light orange after I did that.
My pool guy thinks all of the sports are staining from leaves and soil that blew in. I do have plenty of landscaping near these areas - and during the recent run of wind storms in Las Vegas - a decent amount of dirt, soil and leaves got in the pool.
It took me days of using the pool vacuum to get the dirt/soil out - and there was a decent amount of dirt/soil on those areas affected. I would brush it off, but then hours later the water would push some of it back to those areas. (couldn't use pool rover for 30 days, but rover cant get steps or spa regardless). Eventually I broke out the vac and was using that twice a day for a few days until I saw no more soil/dirt.
Sent photos to replaster company, they are coming next week to take a look, but based on the images they said "that's not rust, we'll have to see what that is, maybe we can sand it down."
