efflorescence

  1. M

    Product to stop efflorescence

    We just had a fiberglass pool installed and getting efflorescence ‘drips’ from the concrete pavers to fiberglass water line. I’m looking for a caulk product to apply in the space between concrete bullnose coping stone pavers and fiberglass pool to block efflorescence. Any recommendations? Thanks!
  2. J

    New Pool Stone - Calcium or Efflorescence

    New pool owner here -- just finished construction a few months ago. I'm trying to determine whether the white stains on the natural stone of the raised spa around the spillway are calcium or efflorescence. The spillway from the spa shoots into the pool, but there is some small dribbling of...
  3. L

    Thick white stuff coming out of gunite shell

    So it has been snowing a lot and it just melted today and the shell of our gunite has white stuff coming out of walls of the shell everywhere but mostly at top and stairs. I tried looking it up and is it calcium carbonate leaching in gunite shell? Efflorescence? Are they the same thing? Will it...
  4. M

    Resurfacing Contractor in SE Michigan

    Hello All! I recently purchased a home in the northern suburbs of Detroit. It is a 1966 home with a 1966 gunite pool. The pool is 800sqft surface area, 9ft deep end, and Lazy L shape. Based on all of my research it has been taken care of pretty well. All equipment is less than 3yrs old, 2005...