I closed my pool last season for the first time with a closing kit, and amazingly enough, the opening of the pool this year was a breeze. Every other year I opened a nasty mess, and for a few years dumped tons of money and time into getting it back. The last two years before last, I drained the pool, and got in there and cleaned it all up and refilled.

So, with that said if I remember correctly, to close the pool, I put in a bunch of shock, a bottle of algecide, and some of the blue stuff, then there was the floating chlorine thing, which I think sunk to the bottom and bleached out my liner but I don't remember noticing it until after the water cleared up.

So, I have also been wondering about the BBB method for closing the pool, I figure that you would need to bring the Chlorine levels to shock level, put in some preventative algecide, and cover. I could be wrong though...

My thing is the winter cover, every year I have a hole in them, I plan on making another post about that sometime though.