Chlorine level for winter

[CarlD]

(Gnashing teeth in Gnew Jersey)

[Watermom]

Although of course we haven't been able to swim for quite awhile now, I still haven't totally closed my pool. Our fall temps are pretty erratic. Some days pushing upper 80s and some days in the 50s or 60s so I don't close it up too early. I wait until we start having freezing night time temps which will be fairly soon. I am still running the pump once in awhile as we have still been having quite a bit of warm weather although with November ending, it is about over for us. I add bleach every week or so. Maybe this weekend I'll jack the chlorine and pH up a bit and maybe add some polyquat. Will drop the water level some and pull the steps out. Not gonna bother with a winter cover. Too much of a hassle and the leaves are all off the trees by now anyways. We start getting warm pretty early in the spring so I typically open it back up in April so I can start chlorinating and running the pump again.

[CarlD]

I'm trying to get another winter or two out of my safety-mesh, which has a hole somewhere between the size of a of golf ball and a racket ball in one panel. But we've put out so much on re-modeling that putting off spending another thousand on the cover before I have to is tough.

We expanded the pool deck on the east end. Not a lot but now we can put a couple of lounge chairs in the enclosure, where we couldn't before. It also covers the pump and filter but the access is OK. So I had to install deck anchors for the cover replacing the edge anchors at that end.