Installing A Pool Liner In Cold Weather
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New and Improved and bumped to the top Summer is over and with the end of summer comes the end of swimming now is the time to prepare your swimming pool for winter. Heres my all new 1. Steps to an above ground pool closing prevent damage from snow and frozen water, and make pool opening next spring a breeze Balanced Water Chemistry. The first step before closing the pool is to balance the water chemistry about a week before you are ready to close. Test your pool water and ensure that the chemical levels are within range p. H 7. 2 7. 6. Alkalinity 8. Calcium Hardness 1. Shock the Pool. After balancing the water chemistry, and several days in advance of closing the pool, add a diluted granular chlorine, or non chlorine pool shock to your pool water to remove any contaminants that could cause stains or algae during winter. The usual treatment is one bag or pound per 1. Pool closing time is usually a sad time of year. The weather is getting cold, the leaves are changing color and the warm memories of summertime. I have an older bathroom that is fully tiled. I would like to replace the tension rod I have always used with a permanent double rod. The tension rods I have had 2. If your pool water is hazy or green, add double or triple the normal dosage. Use a brush afterwards, and brush the floor and walls until your arms wear out. Clean the Pool. On the day of the pool closing be ready to clean your pool with your pool vacuum, brush and skimmer net. Clean it well before lowering the water, and skim again before covering the pool, to remove any wind blown debris. Stratford_RoyalPrism.jpg' alt='Installing A Pool Liner In Cold Weather' title='Installing A Pool Liner In Cold Weather' />Its important to close the pool in a spotless condition. Any debris left in the pool will use up your winterizing pool chemicals, affect water balance, and create ugly stains. Remove Accessory Items. Remove your skimmer basket, return fittings, solar blankets, pool alarms, ladders or steps, and pool cleaners. Dry and stow them safely for the winter months indoors or protected from the elements. Solar blankets can be left on the solar reel, and covered with our durable winter solar cover. They can also be dried, folded and stored in a location inaccessible to mice probably not the shed. Lower Water Level. Now, you can save the skimmer and save water at the same time with the aboveground pool Skimmer Plug. Just snap on the plastic skimmer cover and you can keep the water at normal levels. Drain the skimmer pipe, or disconnect the hose connecting to the pump. If you dont use a skimmer plug that fits into the opening to block water, you need to lower the water level below the mouth of your skimmer to prevent damage from frozen water. Lower the water level to about 3 below the skimmer opening. Removing too much water could stress your pool cover, liner or pool walls. You can use your pool cover pump, or let the water run out of the return line hose by disconnecting it from the filter. If you have a low water suction line, in addition to the skimmer, close or plug the skimmer, and use the LWS line to lower the water below the skimmer, by setting the filter valve on waste or disconnecting the plumbing next. Drain Plug the Pipes. For the return line, back to the pool If you have filter hoses, use a 9 winter pool plug, or the threaded 1. If you have hard PVC pipes that cannot be removed, use a large wetdry vac to blow or suck the water from the pipes, and add pool antifreeze for extra protection. For the skimmer, remove and drain the hose connected to the pump. If you have hard PVC pipes, drain, suck or blow water out. Use a winter skimmer Plug to keep water out of the pipe during winter. PVC pool pipe cracks easily when the temperature falls below 3. The Skimmer Guard Gizmo is a combination skimmer plug and skimmer protector. It plugs the pipe to keep water out, but also absorbs ice expansion inside the skimmer. Skimmers can fill up during the winter, expand and easily crack a skimmer housing. The Skimmer Guard Gizmo absorbs the expansion, protecting the sidewalls of your skimmer. Includes a 9 rubber expansion plug to seal up the return line. Drain the Equipment. The next step is to drain all the pumping, filtering, heating and chlorinating equipment and blow out all water from plumbing lines, otherwise the water will freeze and crack the equipment. After draining, pool pipes should be sealed at the pool with plugs, to keep water out of the pipes and equipment during winter. Pumps have 1 or 2 drain plugs. Filters have 1 cap or plug near the bottom. Gas Heaters have drain plugs on each side. Solar pool heaters have a union or a drain cap, or blow air thru the solar panels. Heat Pumps loosen union nuts, slide back and tip the unit very slightly to drain. Chlorinators or Purifiers have 1 drain plug. Be sure to shut off the power and gas supply to gas fired pool heaters. You can protect pool heaters and heat pumps with a Pool Heater Cover to prevent damage caused by snow, dirt, debris and animals. Moth Balls or mint sachets are also effective at keeping nesting mice out of pool heaters. For DE pool filters and filter cartridges, a final cleaning and inspection is needed while closing the pool. Remove your filter grids or filter cartridge and hose very thoroughly. Soak in our Filter Cleaner to have grids or cartridges at their cleanest before replacing into the filter for dry winter storage. Sand filters also benefit from an end of year cleaning to remove oils and mineral scale, before it sits and sets all winter long. Finally at the equipment pad, be sure to shut off all power to the pump, lights, heater and other equipment. If you can easily remove the entire equipment pack for indoor storage, that would be best. Lubricate O rings. Now is also a good time to lubricate the soft rubber o rings or threaded metal parts of your equipment. Use a Teflon based pool lube for rubber o rings on your pump lid o ring, filter tank o rings, union o rings, drain plug o rings, or any other rubber o ring on your pool equipment. Add Winter Closing Chemicals. In addition to maintaining good water balance during the winter, adding winter algaecides and chemical floaters ensure that your pool water remains clean and clear during winter. Not having sufficient winter pool chemicals can lead to a long and costly spring clean up. A pool winterizing kit makes the process more convenient just buy the winter kit that matches your pool size. In The Swim winter kits include algaecide, non chlorine shock, stain scale preventative, slow release floater and oil absorbing sponge. The Ultimate Winter Kit shown here, is what I use on my own pool, it has a few extra goodies. Cover your Pool. Last but not the least cover your pool with a tight fitting pool cover to ensure that debris and leaves cannot get into your pool. Winter Pool Covers for aboveground pools come in a variety of round and oval sizes, order by pool size for a perfect fit. In addition to the winch cable to secure your pool cover, there are many winter cover accessories like Wall Bags, Cover Seal and Cover Clips that help to hold down a cover in high winds. Air Pillows are used in to break up the ice sheet that forms in the pool under the cover, during several days of below freezing weather. This prevents damage to the pool walls and skimmer from a solid sheet of ice expanding outward. If your pool is surrounded by large beautiful trees, put the Leaf Catcher on top of your winter cover. Lightweight and super tough mesh lets you remove all leaves and debris in one easy motion. Worth its weight in gold if you have large trees, like I do saved me from hours of messy leaf dredging each year. One more winter pool cover accessory is worth mentioning.