The infamous stains before treatment....PICS
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hey frustrated,
Ill have some pics of the after later tonight when I get home from work. Its nice to be able to look into the pool, sunny or not, and not have to see the stains anymore. Beats having to spend $5,500 for the plaster to be replaced with Pebble-tech.
I almost have the water balanced back to specs....its looking good for the 4th of July weekend.
Ill have some pics of the after later tonight when I get home from work. Its nice to be able to look into the pool, sunny or not, and not have to see the stains anymore. Beats having to spend $5,500 for the plaster to be replaced with Pebble-tech.
I almost have the water balanced back to specs....its looking good for the 4th of July weekend.
I asked the warranty rep. the same question and it was explained to me like this: my pool was built and plastered this past winter. Because of the lack of warm temperatures, the remaining moisture on my gunite prior to plastering did not evaoporate. Therefore, a few months after my pool had been plastered the moisture that was now between the plaster and gunite was leaching through. The theory was to waite till after the summer to see if the stains finished leaching and eventually fade. Unfortunatley, my stains continued to migrate as depicted in the pictures. So instead of waiting till the end of summary, the PB ended up draining my pool and conducted an acid wash. After such, the pool shell was allowed to air out for two days. Given that Houston had several straight days of 100 degree temperatures, the plaster should have sufficiently dried out any remaining moisture. I tried to research this phenomenon, but there is very little literature on this type of stain. Whatever the stains were, they were ugly. Hope this helps.
The warranty rep. came out and inspected the stains and then had a rep. from the plaster co. inspect the stains and they came to the conclusion that they were hydration stains.
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