Preparing Your Swimming Pool For The Winter Shut Down

!±8± Preparing Your Swimming Pool For The Winter Shut Down

The first thing to do is make sure the water. Begin by entering your pH. It must be greater than 7.5. If not, just add a little 'dry acid or soda.

Next on the list is chlorine. It wants to increase the chlorine level somewhere between 6 to 10 ppm.

Now add a special product, make sure that the winter that will protect your pool of algae in the winter months to come.

If you added everything you need to be leftThe pump runs for a good 12 hours. This will cause the chlorine produced and distributed in water completely winterized.

To correct the water level in the pool, you must turn off the unit, skimmer valve and let the water drain to 6 "below the skimmer is below. This will prevent the flooding of rain water.

Prepare summer cover for storage, giving it a good clean or with a pressure washer or water fresh and clean. Once it isthoroughly cleaned it can be put away and your winter cover taken out of storage.

Before fitting the winter cover place something in the pool to prevent wall damage if the water in your swimming pool freezes. Anything that will absorb the expansion will do such as some empty chemical containers half filled with water. When you fit the winter cover, make sure it is tight to prevent anything from getting underneath.

Make sure children know the swimming pool is now closed and off limits to visitors. A pool cover is designed to keep leaves, dirt etc. out of the water. It is not designed to take the weight of a person or even a pet. If you do have mall children their are products now available that are winter/safety covers. After a few days you will probably have to tighten the cover again so keep an eye on it for the first few days. You should then check your cover a couple of times a week throughout winter to ensure it is still secure and tight.

With the cover securely in place you should now drain the water from your filter, pump and heater. You will find a drain plug at the bottom of each. If you don't do this, when the water freezes inside the equipment it will most likely damage them beyond repair.

Once early spring arrives and the worst of the weather is over, you should run your pump for a good 6 to 10 hours, depending on the size of your pool, to circulate the chlorine and long life algicide throughout the entire swimming pool.