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Tag: Professional Pool Service

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Water Chemistry Restoration & Professional vs DIY Spring Opening

The most expensive DIY chemistry lesson I ever witnessed cost a customer in Elk Grove $2,800 to fix. They added "just a little extra" muriatic acid to bring down their pH quickly, but didn’t understand that Sacramento’s hard water creates a buffering effect. The acid kept working for hours, dropping the pH so low it […]

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Sacramento Pool Tile Maintenance & Prevention Strategies: Long-Term Solutions

The smartest money I’ve ever seen spent on pool tiles wasn’t on expensive restoration or replacement—it was on consistent prevention that stopped problems before they started. A family in Elk Grove taught me this lesson years ago when they invested in comprehensive maintenance rather than waiting for problems to develop. Twenty years later, their original […]

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Water pours from a spout embedded in a tan tile wall into a clear pool.

Sacramento Pool Tile Stain Types & Identification Guide: Expert Analysis

Identifying the wrong stain type can cost you hundreds in wasted cleaning products and potentially damage your tiles permanently. After 35+ years of treating Sacramento pool tiles, I’ve seen homeowners turn manageable calcium buildup into expensive restoration projects simply because they used the wrong approach based on misidentifying their stain type. Just last month, I […]

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