Test results on new pool in Tucson

[SunnyOptimism]

Guy quoted me $300 to do the salt blasting. He's coming Saturday, will let you know how it goes.

AWESOME!!

So $375 with the travel fee. Not bad. I priced out a 100lb sand blasting tank and 130psi/6gal air compressor at a little over $400. Add in 100 lbs of the kieserite material they use (basically hydrated magnesium sulfate salt) and you easily go over $500 for a DIY setup. Not to mention you need a modified shopvac or pressure-side cleaner with a fine mesh bag to vacuum up all the calcium scale and spent salt at the bottom of your pool...you'd have to do two or three DIY jobs before the equipment starting paying for itself.

If you can, please post before and after photos (especially of the worst areas) so we can all see the results. Ca scaling is a huge problem out here in the Southwest with our plaster pools and hard water, so I'm pretty sure others will be interested. Probably a good idea to start a new post so others will see it.

In case you're interested in reading about the soda blasting process, this site has good technical info -- http://www.universalminerals.com/maxxclean.shtml

[Wilco]

Definitely will post pics. Maybe the guy will cut me a deal for the advertising!

[Wilco]

Guy is here now, guess he is coming to you next?

[SunnyOptimism]

Yeah. I'll post the story later. I just drained my pool down so I've got some good "before" pictures.

[Wilco]

Also, I have no idea how to post pics here, and I don't have a photobucket type acct anywhere

[CarlD]

If you have a gmail account you can use picasaweb.google.com to upload pictures without having to download the Picasa tool to your PC. (don't know why Google wants Picasa downloaded)
Then when you click the insert image button (light green square) you can copy the image location from Picasa into the box, and move your pictures.

[SunnyOptimism]

Yeah, I use Photobucket. You can get an account with them an upload photos using your PC. I do it all from my iPhone using their app. Do you have an iPhone or some type of smartphone?

Once you upload a picture, you can just copy & paste the IMG link associated with the photo into any PF post and the forum software will retrieve and display the image. Pretty easy once you have all your devices setup.

Long story short - I had emailed Mark from ABB to ask if they still serviced Tucson just as I posted my response to you about them because their website changed and they no longer listed Tucson. Then you must of called him right away and the guy was totally wondering why he was all of a sudden getting all these inquiries from Tucson. After you booked him, he called me and said he was coming down for a job in Tucson and that he'd be happy to service my pool as well. I totally laughed out loud at the "chaos" my one forum post caused (my wife looked at me like I was nuts). Anyway, looks like we'll both have something to post about now.

[Wilco]

Ok, not sure I can spend the time figuring all that out this am, but will try later. He just finished and it looks awesome.

[SunnyOptimism]

I'll post pics in a new thread and put a link to them in this thread. I'm still waiting for them to show up here.