Let's talk pool calcium! Calcium is a stubborn build-up that occurs when hard water dries on you pool tiles or stone features. This can be an unsightly part of your backyard oasis. Until now there were 3 main ways to clean calcium buildup, Soda blasting, glass blasting, acid and elbow grease. Soda blasting is the use of industrial grade baking soda mixed with high pressure water to remove pool calcium. There's a few main problems with soda blasting, it's inefficient, baking soda is an abrasive and the soda can really through off your pools chemical balance. Despite taking up to 6 hours to properly free a pool from calcium, the abrasive nature of baking soda can actually damage your pool's tile and stone features. The imbalance will also cost much more in the long run to bring your pool water back up to it's proper balanced state. Acid has a similar problem with you pools PH balance, but it's greatest disadvantage is its inefficiency. The time it takes to acid wash and hand scrub calcium off your pool far outweighs any advantages it could bring. Even small areas can take an entire day to properly clean off the calcium build-up. This doesn't include the days it would take to get your pools water to have safe enough levels of acid for swimming. Finally glass blasting. Particalized glass media is used with high pressure air to erode the calcium away. Of the aforementioned systems glass blasting is by far the quickest, but it's drawbacks far outweigh its advantage. Due to its high abrasive nature the probability of damage occurring to your pool's tile or stone is much more likely than the previous methods. However, the biggest disadvantage to glass blasting is the media itself, Using particalized glass in your pool can be detrimental to you or your families health. Skin irritation, severe eye damage and internal damage may occur when swimming in a glass blasted pool. It's this unsafe method in particular that made Co-2 blasters want to corner the calcium removal market and make the experience of all pool owners safer, and more enjoyable. Dry ice blasting pool calcium will be the go-to method of all DFW residence. Because dry ice is non-abrasive there is virtually no risk of damage to your pools aesthetic. No chemicals also means no need to worry about throwing your pools chemical balance off so there are no hidden additional costs. Most importantly there is no risk of injury to you or your loved ones. And you can begin swimming immediately after the job is done. For more info on pool calcium removal using dry ice blasting contact us through our "contact us" page or emailing us at info@co-2blasters.com.