Tartan Pools drains and refills pools, acid washes plaster and cleans calcium off tile in San Tan Valley. A drain and refill resets water that can no longer be balanced, an acid wash removes stains from the pool surface, and tile cleaning takes the white calcium line off the waterline.
Every job is quoted in writing for your pool before any work starts, based on the pool's size, its surface and what it needs. Tartan Pools is a licensed Arizona contractor, ROC #349378.
✔ Stabilizer (CYA) is too high: it builds up from chlorine tablets and does not filter out, and at high levels chlorine stops working well. Replacing water is the only fix.
✔ Calcium and dissolved solids are too high: evaporation leaves minerals behind, the water turns dull or cloudy and scale forms on tile and equipment.
✔ Stains that chemicals will not lift: metal, leaf and mineral stains often need the pool empty and an acid wash.
✔ After a bad green pool: sometimes the fastest way back to clean water is a drain and refill. See green pool cleanup in San Tan Valley.
✔ Before surface repairs: plaster and pebble repairs need the pool empty.
Your technician tests the water and tells you whether a drain will fix the problem or whether chemistry can. We do not drain a pool that does not need it.
Drain and refill: new water, balanced from scratch. The right call when the water itself is the problem.
Acid wash: the pool is drained and a controlled acid solution takes a thin layer off the plaster to remove stains and brighten the surface. It is not something to repeat every year.
Tile and calcium cleaning: we remove calcium from tile with natural-media blasting, usually without draining the pool. See pool tile cleaning.
Many pools get two or all three in one visit, and they are quoted together.
Text or call. Tell us what you are seeing. A photo of the pool helps.
Water test and quote. We test the water, look at the surface and quote the work in writing. You approve it before anything starts.
Drain and clean. We drain the pool following local discharge rules, clean out the floor and walls, and acid wash or clean tile if that is part of your quote.
Refill and startup. We refill, balance the new water and check the equipment before the pool goes back into normal use. You get a photo report of the finished job.
Many owners drain between January and March. Cooler weather is easier on exposed plaster, and new water is easier to balance before summer. In the hottest months we plan the job so the surface is not left empty in the sun for long.
San Tan Valley is a few minutes from our Queen Creek office, so drains here are easy to schedule, and your weekly technician can balance the new water afterwards.
San Tan Valley, including zip codes 85140, 85143 and 85144 and neighborhoods such as Pecan Creek and Trailside Village. Our office is a few minutes away in Queen Creek, and we also work in Gilbert, Mesa and Chandler.
On a weekly plan, your technician tests the water every visit and tells you when a drain is getting close. See the San Tan Valley pool service page and our pricing page.
Call (480) 999-9226 or text a photo of your pool. We answer calls and texts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and you can also reach us through the contact page. Tartan Pools is a licensed Arizona contractor, ROC #349378, and is rated 4.9 from 358 Google reviews.
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Only when the water can no longer be balanced, usually because stabilizer, calcium or dissolved solids have built up. For many East Valley pools that is every few years. Your technician tests the water and tells you when it is time.
It depends on the size of the pool, the surface and whether tile cleaning or an acid wash is included. Every job is quoted in writing for your pool before any work starts.
Done properly, no, but it does remove a thin layer of the surface each time. That is why we only recommend it for stains that will not come out any other way, and not as a yearly job.
Usually, yes. We remove calcium from tile with natural-media blasting, and the pool rarely needs to be drained for it.
No. We need access to the backyard and the equipment pad, and a working water spigot for the refill. You get a text when we arrive and a photo report when the pool is back in service.
No. Every job is quoted first and approved by you, in writing, before work starts. If the technician finds something else once the work is underway, they stop and ask. That is the rule on every job, large or small.
Yes. Tartan Pools Cleaning & Repair is licensed by the Arizona Registrar of Contractors, license ROC #349378. You can look it up at roc.az.gov.
