Pool Tile Cleaning in Sacramento

That white crusty line around your pool isn't dirt, and it won't scrub off. It's calcium, baked on by hard water and Sacramento sun. We blast it off with glass bead and bring your tile back. No acid, and you get before and after photos of every job.

Free quotes, same day Send a few photos of your waterline and you get a price back the same day. Priced by the foot of tile. If photos will not do it, we come out and measure.
Get a tile quote Call (916) 313-8754

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See the work in progress

Glass bead blasting along the waterline. The white calcium line comes off tile by tile, with no acid.

Technician in a respirator and gloves glass bead blasting mosaic waterline pool tile from the deck
Blasting the waterline from the deck
Blast nozzle moving along slate pool tile with the white calcium line ahead of it and clean tile behind it
White calcium line ahead of the nozzle, clean tile behind it
Technician standing in a pool blasting calcium off mosaic waterline tile
Working the tile line from in the pool
Close up of a glass bead blast nozzle cleaning pool waterline tile
Fine glass bead at low pressure

Our cleaning process

Start to finish, here is the whole job. Most pools are a one day job.

1

Lower the water

We drop the water below the tile line so the whole calcium band is exposed. You do not need to do anything to the pool before we get there.

2

Restore the tile

We check the tile and grout first, and if anything is loose, cracked or too soft to clean safely we tell you instead of blasting it. Then a low pressure stream of fine glass bead lifts the calcium and scale off the tile. No acid, no scrubbing the glaze, no sand.

3

Clean up

We vacuum the spent media and residue off the pool floor. The pool gets refilled before we leave, and you get photos of the tile before and after.

Questions people ask

Short answers. Anything else, call or text us.

Will blasting hurt my tile?
Glass bead is soft compared to sand, and we run it at low pressure and step it up only as needed. We check the tile before we start and we watch the grout the whole time. Tile that looks like it can't take it doesn't get blasted.
Why not just acid wash it?
Acid eats the glaze along with the calcium and dulls the tile over time. Bead blasting lifts the scale off the surface instead of dissolving it, so the tile keeps its finish.
How long does it take?
Most residential waterlines take a few hours. Bigger pools, spas and water features add time, and we'll tell you what to expect in the quote.
Will the calcium come back?
Scale builds back over years depending on how hard your water is and how the chemistry is kept. Keeping calcium and pH in range slows it down a lot.
Do I need to be a Sunfish customer?
No. Tile cleaning is a one time job and it's open to anyone in the Sacramento area.

Where we work

Sacramento, East Sacramento, Land Park, the Pocket, Natomas, Arden-Arcade, Carmichael, Citrus Heights, Rancho Cordova, Fair Oaks, Orangevale, Antelope and West Sacramento. Tile cleaning is a one time visit, so if you're a little outside that list, ask.

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