Scaling starts out just looking a little like white foam around the water line.
Cleaning pool tiles calcium deposits.
Some retailers also sell.
To refresh your memory the waterline or water line is the area of a swimming pool or spa where the water meets the tile or the fill line not that there s an actual line.
If your pool has a high ph level and is heated you ll soon seen calcium scale building.
If that doesn t work try cleaning the tile with a solution of water and muriatic acid you can find muriatic acid at your local hardware or pool supply store.
But it is possible to restore your pool to its former glory.
Read on to learn a few methods for how to remove calcium from pool tile.
This can result in pits being created in the plaster that you ll have to pay to have refinished or resurfaced.
Calcium build up on your tile and plaster can be a result of hard water in your area.
What you use depends on your pool s surface.
Without any effort to remove calcium from pool tile calcium deposits will continue to grow and spread to other areas of the pool even potentially on the bottom.
Hard water stains on your pool tiles appear as a cloudy white residue caused from large amounts of minerals in the water such as calcium limestone.
That s assuming you don t want to pay a pool service company to bead blast it clean.
How to remove hard water stains from pool tiles.
That foamy looking white stuff becomes hard as a rock and if not treated.
For light thin calcium deposits try using a soft brush such as an old toothbrush and a solution of vinegar and water.
Next you can try using a pumice stone or scale remover.
Cleaning tile at the waterline is one of those dirty deeds that go along with pool ownership.
The best ways to remove calcium carbonate is to use a calcium releaser cleaner preferably an acid free product so it doesn t ruin the finish of the pool tile or glass.