Forum: Pool Startup, Shutdown, & Winter Operation

I have recently noticed that my water ballooons holding my winter cover on have partially blown off. Alot of the water over the cover has now gone...

Well I tried typing this a second ago but all of a sudden my message disappeared. Hmm.... Okay, anyway I had a problem this year when I opened the...

Yesterday after my kid's field day at school, they came home to find water temp at 79.9 (magic number here is 80 degrees), so in they went....still a...

Any drawbacks to opening in march? We've got a bad scale problem, and wanted a jump start on getting the water balanced, and then dropping the pH...

I spent all of two days trying to remember my login user id and password combo before finally getting it right. I had reinstalled Windows XP, and...

did some yard work this afternoon and worked up a sweat so I took the plunge... The water's not quite warm enough to stick around in but not so cold...

I want to take off the ugly black cover on my pool but I won't start filtering the water until mid-May just too cold her in Mass. Should I just...

on our above ground pool. Although I made a stupid mistake and let a lot of the debris fall in, all in all, I was very happy. Pool was pretty much...

Most of our leaves have fallen and I could remove the cover at anytime. It is just a leaf net held down with water bags. Our pump has ran on low...

I have a 22k gal IG. i drained the pool to below the level of the returns, blew out the lines and capped. I covered the pool, but with rain & snow...

I'm lazy :p but would like to save some money on pool maintenance (we have a pool "guy" come once a week) as we are pretty much not going to swim...

I have a sand filter that I use with a 24' round AG pool. I have seen some posts regarding people who remove the multi-port but leave the filter out...

Okay, my pool is sparkling clean, I am dumping in some polyquat today, after 24 hours I will be shocking with bleach and covering for the winter. I...

Hey folks, Just curious...If you lower the water level below the skimmer and returns, and then turn on the pump, shouldn't that blow out the lines...

I have an old pool with DE filter and 2-way valve (back wash / filter), Polaris with it's own pump, and heater. The skimmer is hooked up to the main...

Yesterday I was going through my pool closing and was draining the water level down. I was using a small sump pump to drain the additional water...

I wanted to share our success with a lo-tech method for blowing out our main drain. This is the first year my husband and I closed our 24k gal, IG...

Ok so ive read all the threads about closing pools for winter most talk about snow and freezing. As i live in Southern cal near Palm springs guess...

Ok, I just posted recently about the drought we are having, and the low water level in my pool, etc. Well, we have had a lot of rain over the past...

So, for the first time I'm thinking about closing the pool myself. I've been reading a lot of posts on here, but a lot of the setups don't seem to...

Hi. We have a sand filter and I've read that some people remove the pressure guage from the filter. We've never done this, but should we? Why? Thanks.

Hi, I have an inground, vinyl liner pool. I am in central North Carolina, and we don't get a whole lot of below freezing temps, but once in a while...

Saturday was the day. Overnight the water had finally plummeted from 72 down to 60. So that meant close, and close now! Did the usual--been...

And I'm not talking about indoor pools! Went for a swim today. Water's holding in the high seventies, flirting with 80. Credit nightly covering...

We have a 16X32 52"-6.5' AG pool but it's surrounded totally by decking so looks IG. We live in western PA where the winters can be wicked. Covering...

I live in NE Ohio so it gets pretty cold with lots of ice and snow here. However, our pump and filter are underneath our deck so they are protected...

Last year I don't think we drained it low enough and we had a freezing rain and freezing temperature problem where ice backed up into the skimmer and...

Result of experiment of whether to add Polyquat at closing. Closed with Poly in fall 2005 and opened in Spring 2006 to clear water and clear...

The other day we saw a new product called Winter Pill made by SmartPool. It's a round ball filled with some sort of enzyme-based liquid which is...