Hi all, I feel like I live on this site: READING and LEARNING all the time.... But here is my question:

I am a first time pool owner, Today I went and picked up my winter cover from the pool store where I bought my pool. I then asked them to give my guidance on "closing the pool" They gave me the run thru, disconnecting hoses, taking off all the gagdets: (ha) BUT then they told me (after i asked) that I dont have to take in the Filter and the Pump???? I like in Michigan, on Lake Erie: needless to say: it gets COLD. They still told me that I would be okay that EVERYONE USUALLY does it, because the sand filter is so heavy? And they just usually cover it, but that some people dont even do that.

So I need some re***urance. Or some NO WAY take it in!

Thanks to all: this site has saved me so much: and my neighbors are so pool envy when they see how clear it is. I tell them what I do and about this site and then they think I am crazy. So as they walk away and cant swim in there cruddy green pool, I laugh and pull out the loungers and take a dip with my ****tail.....