Pool Resurfacing in Santa Ana, CA, Done by Our Own Crews
Aqua Creations offers pool resurfacing in Santa Ana for homeowners, apartment owners, and community associations, with every AQUA-GLASS™ finish applied by our own employees. Older pools here have spent decades in hard water, and that history shows up on the surface.
Our shop is 86 miles away, and our crews make the trip
Aqua Creations works out of 1547 Los Angeles Ave in Ventura, about 86 miles from central Santa Ana in a straight line. We have resurfaced pools with AQUA-GLASS™ since 1991, and the people who show up at your pool are our employees, not subcontractors we found for the job.
That matters on a resurface, because the quality of a fiberglass finish comes down to how it is applied. The crew working on your pool in Santa Ana belongs to the same company that answers the phone in Ventura. You can read more about Aqua Creations and how we work.
What an aging Santa Ana pool tends to show first
Santa Ana water runs around 14 grains per gallon, and most of the city’s homes are decades old. Put those together and these are the signs we expect to find when we look at a pool here.
A chalky band at the tile
Hard fill water plus summer evaporation leaves calcium behind. On plaster it builds into a gray-white line that keeps coming back.
Look at the waterline tileSteps that scrape
As plaster wears, the sand and cement in it are exposed. Steps and benches feel like fine sandpaper on feet and swimsuits.
Look at steps and benchesBlotchy, uneven color
Older plaster stains and mottles, with darker patches near the drain and lighter, worn areas where the water hits hardest.
Look at the floor and wallsSpots that sound hollow
When an older coat lets go of the shell, a tap with a knuckle sounds dull, and the edges may start to flake.
Tap around the shallow endPool resurfacing in Santa Ana for homes, rentals, and associations
Santa Ana is a dense city with single-family streets, apartment buildings, and condo communities side by side. We resurface pools for all three.
Backyard pools
For a backyard pool behind an older Santa Ana home, AQUA-GLASS™ replaces worn plaster with a smooth finish bonded to the shell.
Residential pool resurfacing Rental buildingsApartment pools
For apartment owners in a city with this much rental housing, a finish that holds up to daily use and fewer resident complaints about rough steps.
Apartment pool resurfacing Condos and HOAsCommunity pools
For Santa Ana condo and townhome boards, we put together a written proposal the board can review, with health department and drain requirements reviewed up front.
HOA pool resurfacingDowntown, the older neighborhoods, and out to South Coast Metro
We cover Santa Ana from the older blocks around downtown and French Park to Metro East and South Coast Metro near the 405. Neighboring Garden Grove, Anaheim, and Costa Mesa are on the same routes, and the full list is on our Orange County page.
- Areas served
- Downtown
- French Park
- Midtown
- Metro East
- South Coast Metro
- Greenville
- Along I-5, SR-22, and SR-55
A city built out before 1980, with pools to match
Those figures come from the city’s 1995 Consolidated Plan, which also described Santa Ana as 97 percent built out. Any pool built alongside one of those homes is now more than 45 years old.
A plaster pool that age has been through several cycles of etching, staining, and patching. If it has been replastered, each new coat is only as good as its bond to the one under it. Our plaster, gunite, and pebble pool resurfacing page explains how we take on an older shell, and why another plaster coat restarts the same clock.
Source: City of Santa Ana Consolidated Plan, 1995, HUD archive
Late summer is when hard water hits a Santa Ana pool hardest
August averages 84.6°F with no rain at the Santa Ana Fire Station, so evaporation and hard-water top-offs peak in late summer. July through September all average above 82°F, and about 10.7 of the year’s 12.5 inches of rain fall between November and March.
Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals, 1991 to 2020, Santa Ana Fire Station
The city’s own wells, and what their hardness means for your surface
The City of Santa Ana runs its own water system, pumping groundwater from city wells and blending it with treated water bought from the Metropolitan Water District. The city’s 2025 Water Quality Report lists the groundwater at an average total hardness of 239 mg/L, with readings from 130 to 307 mg/L. The imported water averaged about 14 grains per gallon as well.
Divide 239 by 17.1 and you get about 14 grains per gallon. On the USGS scale, anything above 180 mg/L is very hard water. The city’s own answer to the question is similar: about 250 parts per million, or roughly 15 grains per gallon.
Hard water does its damage slowly on plaster. Calcium settles into the pores of the cement surface and roughens it, and stains have something to grip. Fiberglass is non-porous, so scale stays on the face of the finish, where a brush and balanced chemistry can keep up with it.
If you have a saltwater pool, note that under the H2OC guidance shared by every Orange County city, salt water must go to the sanitary sewer, a landscaped area, or other ground that can absorb it, and acid cleaning wastes may not be discharged at all.
Source: City of Santa Ana 2025 Water Quality Report, data tables
- Average hardness
- 239 mg/L
- Imported MWD water
- About 14 gpg
- USGS very hard threshold
- Above 180 mg/L
- Supplier
- City of Santa Ana
Get a straight answer on your Santa Ana pool
Tell us how old the pool is and what you are seeing on the surface. We will come out, look at the plaster, tile, and coping, and give you a free estimate. Financing is available.
- Visit or mail1547 Los Angeles Ave, Suite #108, Ventura, CA 93004
- Office hoursMonday to Friday, 8 AM to 4 PM
- Emailaquaglass@aquacreations.com