Winterizing Your Pool

Winterizing Your Swimming Pool

We need to start thinking about protecting our pools from the harsh winter months. The next item on our list is to keep your pool clean as possible for next season. Properly winterizing your pool will make the next pool season require less prep time. The following are the steps you can take to winterize your pool for the quickly approaching winter.

1) Test the water chemistry. Test the pH, Total Alkalinity, and Calcium Hardness; make sure all are even. This is going to protect this pool from staining and iron buildup on the surfaces.

2) Add your winterizing kit, this will maintain a blue color, even until next season. Please ask your Dallas Pool specialist for proper instructions.

3) Even though unlikely in Texas the chance of freezing is always a possibility. Water freezes then expands breaking and cracking pipes and pool plumbing. Take proper precaution to eliminate breakage because of the freezing water.

4) Lower the water level below the skimmer (the metal or plastic basket used to catch floating debris). Freezing water can cause the components to crack.

5) Drain all pool equipment including your pump, all should come with a draining valve, leave plug off incase water does enter, this allows proper drainage. Make sure chemicals are drained out of equipment including your chlorine feeder.

6) Place cover on pool to keep out debris, some economical pool covers are made of durable polyethylene and others can be custom made to fit an irregular shaped pool.
Finally, place all components in storage to be easily found next season. Insert a small pressure gauge to measure during the winter.

Please consult your local pool supplier for further equipment and chemical specifications for winterizing your pool.