Hi All,

I can feel your pain. I have the same situation with my new pool. We got water in November and after a lot forward and backward with the pool builder and the service dealer (because the pool is leaking 1 inch water a day) I closed on the 22 of December. It was very cold here in VA and I brushed as much as I could for 4 weeks. We dropped the water level down to 6 inch under the tiles and I put the cover on. Over the winter the level dropped to 18 inch under the tile line. I took the cover off last week that the builder could start looking for the leak and I noticed that my step’s (the 3 which are under the water line) were looking very sandy. Well all around the pool is still dirt and it was a very windy winter here. I was able to clean the steps which were not under water very easy but the 3 under water are brown and they feel like sand paper. The builder says I can use a much harder brush or a stone to clean it but the pool store has the opinion that the plaster is to young to start with heavy duty stuff. I started to use a household brush which is a bit harder then the pool brush but it is not doing the trick to good. It looks very dirty and I don’t even want to know how the bottom of the pool feels.

I hope that somebody in the forum can give me some hope that I will be able to get it clean and less rough.

Guido