Why Calcium Sticks to Pool Tile (909)-721-3951 

First let's understand how calcium gets on your pool tile in the first place. Water enters the grout line and activates the calcium in the cement behind your tile, as the calcium grows it has to find the weakest spot to blow through and that would be the grout lines.

Take a close look at your pool tile and you'll see the calcium starts from the grout line and spreads over your tile and then locks itself to your tile.

The second way calcium gets on your pool tile is because calcium leaches from your pool plaster and gets in the water and then on your pool tile. The cure for this is simple get a good test kit that tests calcium content in the water. If the water tests high, just dump half your pool water and refill every five years. The important thing to remember is all cement is made with calcium in it.

Now, it's important to understand the difference between effervescence and calcium, Effervescence
is white powder that works its way to the surface of cement, bricks, pavers, Effervescence is the salts in cement and mortars, how you can easily tell the difference is just get it wet and if it temporarily disappears it's effervescence if not it's calcium.

The good news is effervescence can be cured by applying a effervescence treatment that creates a bearer deep in the cement, brick, or stone effectively stopping the salts from reaching the surface .
Now we can answer the big question of why calcium sticks so well to your pool tile. First let me say porcelain pool tile is the most common pool tile , and the reason for that is its amazing strength but the one little flaw is, everything sticks to it like glue.

Why do you think that is? I'll tell you if you look at porcelain pool tile under a microscope you'll see millions of microscopic pits that hold to everything, Let Me Tell You A story...

I have a spinner that is used to pressure wash tile inside the house. It's been a big fad to install porcelain tile inside the home for years and the fun part for me is to literally write my customers name on the floor to show them what is really going on.

Most of my customers just wanted their grout cleaned and had no idea their floor tile was three shades darker because the buildup was so gradual.

FYI. Aldon makes a product called (tile Cover) and it effectively solves this problem inside the home.

The only thing left for you to do now is call 909-949-8423 or click