Closing the pool

[Pamsel]

Since our vinyl liner needs to be changed in the spring and we will be draining the pool, I take it I don't need to worry about proper chemistry or algae when I close the pool this year? We've never closed the pool ourselves but I'm hoping it's something we can learn to safely do and not have to pay the pool store guy to do it.

I'd like to get the pool closed soon, since we won't be using it again this year and we are going to be gone for awhile. I don't know how to dry the lines and do the anti-freeze. I think I could figure out most of the rest of it. Is there going to be a sticky soon on closing an IG pool? Or is there a simple step-by-step process someone could post for me?

Thanks so much!

[Watermom]

Although some would say it is a waste of money to prevent algae growth over the winter since you are going to drain and do a new liner in the spring, if it were my pool, I'd do it anyways. I wouldn't want to be dumping a lot of algae-infested water in my yard and I wouldn't want to handle (during removal) a nasty, slimy green liner. Just my opinion. Bleach is cheap, so it wouldn't be that much money spent that you'll be dumping.