Quote Originally Posted by duraleigh View Post
Hi, Mark,

Welcome to the South. I live in Raleigh and choose not to close at all......as do the majority of folks around here.

I turn the pump on when we get freezing temps and that's about it.
Do you leave the pump completely off the rest of the time in the winter? Or do you still run it a little each day? I'm in SC, so we stay warmer than you, and this is our first year with a pool, so I'm wondering what to do. We have a 2 speed pump that I've been running on low 24/7, and turning on high only when we get ready to swim, so the bugs get skimmed off. I'm thinking I want to put it on a timer and have the pump run a few hours in the coldest part of the night, like 3 am to 6 am.