Hey guys. I’m a fairly new pool owner with a roughly 30-year-old, fiberglass inground pool that I sort of inherited. I was initially pool illiterate, but I’m slowly moving in the right direction.
The fiberglass definitely shows its age. There’s a lot of stains, some small cracks on the outer lip, and the apparently somewhat common bubbling that you see on the walls. I was able to get the pool cleaned up fairly well and I added a Hayward AquaRite 900 SWG.
I’m still learning and working on getting everything balanced, so please bear with me. A lot of things are out of whack. TA is WAY HIGH…like 270 high. CH is almost non-existent at 30. I think I understand what I need to do to get these heading in the right direction, but I need help identifying something…
There’s a lot of milky white (some dingy) crusty “stuff” on the fiberglass in a lot of places. Looks like scaling. It scrapes off fairly easily with just light to medium pressure from a finger nail. I’m posting some pictures. Question is…what is it?
Initially when I saw it, I thought calcium scaling, but then I thought that seems unlikely since the CH is crazy low and calcium scaling is usually hard to remove or so I have been told.
So, what is it?
The fiberglass definitely shows its age. There’s a lot of stains, some small cracks on the outer lip, and the apparently somewhat common bubbling that you see on the walls. I was able to get the pool cleaned up fairly well and I added a Hayward AquaRite 900 SWG.
I’m still learning and working on getting everything balanced, so please bear with me. A lot of things are out of whack. TA is WAY HIGH…like 270 high. CH is almost non-existent at 30. I think I understand what I need to do to get these heading in the right direction, but I need help identifying something…
There’s a lot of milky white (some dingy) crusty “stuff” on the fiberglass in a lot of places. Looks like scaling. It scrapes off fairly easily with just light to medium pressure from a finger nail. I’m posting some pictures. Question is…what is it?
Initially when I saw it, I thought calcium scaling, but then I thought that seems unlikely since the CH is crazy low and calcium scaling is usually hard to remove or so I have been told.
So, what is it?
