Has anyone had any success with these products, like Scale Tec or Beau Tec. Seems I've tried them all and none are effective at minimizing the white line on the waterline tile.
Calcium descalers
- Thread starter Nevada25
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- Jun 24, 2021
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- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool RJ-60 Plus
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I've used BeauTec before and it takes weeks for the scale to soften but it does soften and scrape off by fingernail.
- May 23, 2015
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- Pool Size
- 16000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
Those products are mostly scale inhibitors, not scale removers. Once scale forms, it won’t dissolve unless the conditions are highly acidic to remove it.
The white line at the tiles isn’t so much “scale” from a chemical imbalance but more a consequence of evaporation and precipitation. As water evaporates at the interface of the tile and waterline, some dissolved solids, like calcium, salt, silicates, etc, will precipitate out of solution. That scale gets deposited on the tiles. Nothing will stop that from happening because the process is driven by concentration changes, not chemical ones. This is why spillover spa faces will always develop a white crust of evaporite.
The best you can do is always try to maintain a low saturation index to promote dissolved solids staying solution and then scrubbing the tile line regularly. There are tile cleaners that can help to keep tiles clean but they require regular application and lots of elbow grease.
Sorry, not much you can do about in a plaster pool with hard water … just happens.
The white line at the tiles isn’t so much “scale” from a chemical imbalance but more a consequence of evaporation and precipitation. As water evaporates at the interface of the tile and waterline, some dissolved solids, like calcium, salt, silicates, etc, will precipitate out of solution. That scale gets deposited on the tiles. Nothing will stop that from happening because the process is driven by concentration changes, not chemical ones. This is why spillover spa faces will always develop a white crust of evaporite.
The best you can do is always try to maintain a low saturation index to promote dissolved solids staying solution and then scrubbing the tile line regularly. There are tile cleaners that can help to keep tiles clean but they require regular application and lots of elbow grease.
Sorry, not much you can do about in a plaster pool with hard water … just happens.
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