If you live in the Antelope Valley, you are intimately familiar with hard water. The water supply here is packed with calcium and magnesium. As pool water evaporates under the intense desert sun, the water leaves the pool, but the heavy minerals stay behind.
Over time, this results in a thick, ugly, crusty white line clinging to your beautiful waterline tiles. This is calcium scale, and it is notoriously difficult to remove.
Why Brushing Doesn't Work
You've probably tried scrubbing that white line with a pumice stone or a stiff brush, only to find it takes hours of backbreaking labor to remove just a few inches of scale.
Calcium silicate and calcium carbonate bond aggressively to ceramic and glass tiles. Standard pool brushes and generic household cleaners will not make a dent in severe scale buildup.
The Safe, Effective Solution: Glass Bead Blasting
At AV Pool Pros, we don't rely on harsh, dangerous acids or damaging wire brushes to clean your tiles. We use a highly specialized process called Glass Bead Blasting (or sometimes Kieserite salt blasting, depending on the tile type).
Our process involves:
- Lowering the Water Level: We drop the water slightly below the tile line.
- Specialized Blasting: Using a low-pressure compressor, we shoot microscopic, perfectly spherical glass beads at the tile.
- Pulverizing the Scale: The glass beads pulverize the hard calcium crust without scratching or damaging the glaze on your ceramic or glass tiles.
- Vacuuming the Debris: The blasting media and the pulverized calcium fall into the pool, where we use a dedicated vacuum system to extract it completely.
The result is stunning. Your tiles will look exactly as they did the day the pool was built—vibrant, glossy, and completely free of white scale.
Stop staring at that ugly white ring. Restore the beauty of your pool today by scheduling a professional tile decalcification service with AV Pool Pros.