Acid washing of gunite pools: if your pool and/or spa has staining or discoloration, an acid wash may be performed to remove the surface staining, scaling, or discoloration. This can be done anytime, though it is common to perform an Read More …
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Should I Acid Wash My Pool?
Some pool shops will automatically tell you to acid wash your pool if you present them with an issue or a pool stain. This happens simply because they don’t know what else to suggest… and in many cases you would Read More …
Etidronic Acid: Stain Prevention and Cloudy Water Cleaner
In laymen’s terms, etidronic acid is a fancy name for a bio-phosphate that’s commonly used in water treatments and sometimes cosmetics. It is a chelating agent that can be added to bind substances found in pool water such as calcium, Read More …
Is Acid Safe To Swim In?
I just cleaned some of my tile that had green and black mold inside the pool. About a foot of tile was cleaned. The acid base tile cleaner liquid also landed in the pool water since I was cleaning it. Read More …
How To: Acid Washing
Have you ever heard of acid washing your pool? It is sometimes referred to as ‘drain & clean’. This is an extreme way to clean your pool and is usually necessary only if your pool has turned dark, strange colors. Read More …
How to Paint and Acid Wash a Swimming Pool {Pool and Spa TV}
If you decide to do this yourself, proceed with caution. We recommend leaving WATER IN YOUR GUNITE SWIMMING POOL at all times to reduce risk of POOL POP OUT. Once you paint a pool, it will need to be re-painted Read More …
FAQ: I have rust on my pool wall, I treat with ascorbic acid but it keeps coming back. What can I do?
Here is a question we get quite a bit. When the pool walls or stairs have staining, you can use a product like StainFree to take the color off of the pool walls, and it is returning the iron into Read More …
How to Clean and Acid Wash a DE Swimming Pool Filter {Pool and Spa TV}
How To Clean & Acid Wash A Swimming Pool D.E. Filter – Part 1 of 2. Host Tim Casey goes into detail as to how to clean out and acid wash a D.E. (Diatomaceous Earth) Swimming Pool DE Filter. Produced Read More …