Pumping water off of winter cover...

[Watermom]

I'd use some diluted bleach water to clean it instead of algaecide. Algaecide is more of a preventative thing rather than something to kill algae.

[heatherc]

well, i cleaned most of the leaves off the cover today and added a bunch of bleach to top of winter cover......tomorrow hopefully will get the cover off! If it looks like there is algae settled on cover, I am planning to pump the "top" water under the cover and then once the level on the cover gets too low, will pump it out to the sewer.......I think I can pump most of the water into the pool though...and save a small fortune in water charges!.........lets see how it goes!

[heatherc]

...it worked great!....I only had to pump the last of the water to the sewer...pool looks great! Will get pump running tomorrow and get the chemicals going!!! My 3 yr old is ready to swim in it today...........no concept of TOOO COLD!!!!!!