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If you live in an area where you have to
close your pool for the winter, you need to close it properly to protect
it. Remember that the cleaner your pool is when you close it,
the less trouble it will be to get it going again the next season.
- Take a pool water sample for a full analysis.
- Adjust Alkalinity, pH, and Calcium Hardness levels accordingly.
- Thoroughly brush and vacuum any algae or debris that
may be on the floor or wall of the pool.
- Add Stain & Scale Preventative, and then run the filter for
24 hours.
- Add 1 gallon of shock per 10,000 gallons of
pool water, and run filter for 4 hours.
- Add 1 gallon of Winter Algaecide and run the filter
for 4-6 hours.
- If there is a chlorine feeder connected to the
pool, make sure there is no remaining chemical in
the feeder. Clean and flush the feeder per
manufacturer's directions or run filter until all
remaining chemical has been dissolved.
- Poke out holes on Chlorine tablet floater,
and put floater in the pool.
- Clean the skimmer basket and the pump's hair/lint
strainer basket. Store the baskets in a safe
place.
- Clean the filter with the appropriate filter
cleaner per label instructions.
- Plug and cover the return and skimmer.
- Disconnect pump and tank and bring indoors
for the season to prevent freezing of any part of
your filtration system. Be sure to fill the
pump with foam pump protector.
- Cover the pool and be sure that the cover
is tightly fastened to the pool. If you use
air pillows under the cover fill them only about
2/3 full to allow for expansion and put a piece
of duct tape over the plug as an extra seal.
If you use water tubes fill them only halfway to
allow for expansion as they freeze.
Please! Do
not hang the jugs on the cover (we're sure you've seen
it done) because that puts strain on the outer part
of your toprail and may actually void your pool warranty.
Solid covers must have the
water siphoned/pumped off throughout the winter.
Keep an eye on what you pump off as many solid covers
are not entirely leak proof and as they dip down into
the pool you may actually be pumping your pool water
out through the cover!
A leaf cover over your solid
or mesh cover is a great idea to catch the leaves.
After the leaf-fall is done you take the leaf cover
off, along with the leaves. Then you don't have leaves
rotting on top of the pool all winter and you don't
have all that heavy stuff to try and pull off the pool
in the spring. (It usually ends up in your pool
anyway!)
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