Good evening all,
Just had two quick questions I'd love some insight on.
At the end of January we filled our 10,000 gallon salt water gunite pool with Pebblesheen Blue Surf. The pool builder company used their own company for the initial start up water chemical balancing.
1. During the 3 week period, I noticed a few areas in the pool that looked significantly different than the rest of the pool. These areas appeared much darker than the rest of the plaster. I spoke with my pool builder about this, they acknowledged the differences, and according to the start up company, attempted to correct it with chemicals but there wasn't an improvement.
My pool builder had the plaster company come out this morning. The plaster company said that this area is actually the way the entire pool should look, and the rest of the pool has scale built up. This seemed off to me since neither the start up group, or the pool builder mentioned this at any point, and this is a relatively small area that has the discoloration.
The plaster company basically mentioned two options - add 8-10 gallons of acid to the pool and don't drain it, or drain the pool and do an acid wash.
I'm not sure if what I'm being told by the plaster company is correct, or an attempt to save $ if the problem was on their end.
In the pictures you can clearly see the area that is significantly darker than the rest of the plaster.
2. Additionally, I noticed today that some of my steps/ledge in the deep end appear to have large areas of yellow/brown discoloration. I'm not sure what this is from, or what can be done about this. We are in the process of preparing the dirt for grass seed/sod so I'm not sure if this is related to dirt being blown into the pool as we have had some strong rain/wind the last few days.
I had the water tested at Leslies today and had the following results:
FC: 1.74
TC : 1.79
pH: 7.9
Total Alkalinity: 81
Calcium Hardiness: 239
Cyanuric Acid: 57
Iron: 0
Phosphates: 0
Salt: 2417
I really appreciate any help!
Just had two quick questions I'd love some insight on.
At the end of January we filled our 10,000 gallon salt water gunite pool with Pebblesheen Blue Surf. The pool builder company used their own company for the initial start up water chemical balancing.
1. During the 3 week period, I noticed a few areas in the pool that looked significantly different than the rest of the pool. These areas appeared much darker than the rest of the plaster. I spoke with my pool builder about this, they acknowledged the differences, and according to the start up company, attempted to correct it with chemicals but there wasn't an improvement.
My pool builder had the plaster company come out this morning. The plaster company said that this area is actually the way the entire pool should look, and the rest of the pool has scale built up. This seemed off to me since neither the start up group, or the pool builder mentioned this at any point, and this is a relatively small area that has the discoloration.
The plaster company basically mentioned two options - add 8-10 gallons of acid to the pool and don't drain it, or drain the pool and do an acid wash.
I'm not sure if what I'm being told by the plaster company is correct, or an attempt to save $ if the problem was on their end.
In the pictures you can clearly see the area that is significantly darker than the rest of the plaster.
2. Additionally, I noticed today that some of my steps/ledge in the deep end appear to have large areas of yellow/brown discoloration. I'm not sure what this is from, or what can be done about this. We are in the process of preparing the dirt for grass seed/sod so I'm not sure if this is related to dirt being blown into the pool as we have had some strong rain/wind the last few days.
I had the water tested at Leslies today and had the following results:
FC: 1.74
TC : 1.79
pH: 7.9
Total Alkalinity: 81
Calcium Hardiness: 239
Cyanuric Acid: 57
Iron: 0
Phosphates: 0
Salt: 2417
I really appreciate any help!
