First time closing, suggestions welcome!

[Mom2Czars]

I have a DE filter. I removed the insides and cleaned it out. It's in my sunroom right now, nice and dry. I'm planning to finish up with the job this weekend, moving the pump and filter to the basement, cleaning out the hoses, etc. I've checked the CL level once since putting the cover on, and it's at 13. I think I'll just keep an eye on it once a week until we get freezing weather. I can always throw in some bleach if needed as we're getting close to the truly cold weather. I have some but not all the clips on. I figured I'd let the whole thing settle a bit before solidifying it. I think I'll tie some water-filled bleach bottles loosely to the cover too, so that when the clips pop off, the cover won't fly off.

On reflection (and from reading the sticky posts above), I wish I'd have just put the cover on after vacuuming and removing the stairs, but left the pump/filter operational for a while longer.

The leak in my connection from the pump to the filter made that a problem though. I was losing enough water that I'd have to top it off at least once a week just to keep the level up enough to be able to vacuum, etc. I'm going to have to break the whole thing down in the basement and reconnect it.

[cvoytek]

I had a pool company close for me last year (my first year) and they added a TON of bleach (6 big jugs of 12% if I remember right) and one quart of Algecide. Since I am doing it myself this year:

A good cleaning and vacuuming, taking pump apart and putting it in basement, taking the quick connects off covering the skimmer with aquadoor and the return with the screw in plug, covering etc.

Can I just do what they did but not go so crazy with the bleach (IE add 1 quart polyquat and about 6-8 5.25 gallons of bleach)? I think this would put me at about 15-20 ppm CL instead of the 30-50 I estmated they put me at.

I have a 14k gallon above ground. My cover showed no distress from the tremendous amount of bleach they put in last fall and my water was crystal clear when I opened it up in the spring.